dennis sandole scales – Making Music Theory and Jazz Improvisation work for you

OKAY, SO LET’S MAKE SOME IMPROVISED MUSIC OUT OF IT ALL!

HEXACHORDS:

Below is a chromatic linking idea counting in groups of 6 notes over an A7 Alt chord.

CHROMATIC RESOLUTIONS ON The OFF BEAT:

This idea relies upon starting the alternate picking by playing off the beat [Missing the first semiquaver]. This creates “Forward Momentum” and puts most of the chromatic notes on the off beat, and at other times creates the illusion of it.

DENNIS SANDOLE’S LEGENDARY BOOK GUITAR LORE: Click Image for Amazon:

When looking at even the most well known scales we still find other scales embedded within them.

B Altered Scale contains a whole tone scale and a Diminished scale giving it an exotic sound.

dennis sandole scale lore

C Diminished scale contains two mixolydian tetrachords. The first being of the root and the second being of the flat 5:

dennis sandole scale lore

We can of course extend scales as we have looked at in Jazz Scale Extensions

dennis sandole scale lore

DENNIS SANDOLE: Bi tonal scales, polyscales[MULTI] scales concepts/ideas.

Dennis Sandole Scale Lore: Developing Poly/multiple scales. Although being most noted as John Coltrane’s Mentor/Teacher Dennis Sandole was unique in his musical thinking.

Here is an example of a polytonal scale idea:

dennis sandole scale lore

Here we have another polytonal/multiple scale idea:

dennis sandole scale lore

Here we employ triplets.

dennis sandole scale lore

Below are some “Mixed up” ideas as concepts to get a flow and to syncopate and get a feel for it. These are only exercises but create interest by the way the different scales appear and move.

dennis sandole scale lore

16ths mix #2

dennis sandole scale lore

16ths mix #3

dennis sandole scale lore

Here are some of Dennis Sandole’s own sketches/ideas

dennis sandole scale lore

M	T	W	T	F	S	S
		1	2	3	4	5
6	7	8	9	10	11	12
13	14	15	16	17	18	19
20	21	22	23	24	25	26
27	28	29	30	31

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Dennis Sandole Guitar Lore/ Scale Lore

In this Vlog/Blog we will take some inspiration from Dennis Sandole’s guitar lore/scale lore concepts.

If we look below we will see an example of a polytonal scale chromatically linking together through different keys.

DENNIS SANDOLE EXAMPLE:

We also see this in common scales too although not to such a degree.

For Instance:

ALTERED

DIMINISHED

OKAY, SO LET’S MAKE SOME IMPROVISED MUSIC OUT OF IT ALL!

HEXACHORDS:

Below is a chromatic linking idea counting in groups of 6 notes over an A7 Alt chord.

CHROMATIC RESOLUTIONS ON The OFF BEAT:

This idea relies upon starting the alternate picking by playing off the beat [Missing the first semiquaver]. This creates “Forward Momentum” and puts most of the chromatic notes on the off beat, and at other times creates the illusion of it.

DENNIS SANDOLE’S LEGENDARY BOOK GUITAR LORE: Click Image for Amazon:

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Dennis Sandole Polytonal/Extended Scales

When looking at even the most well known scales we still find other scales embedded within them.

B Altered Scale contains a whole tone scale and a Diminished scale giving it an exotic sound.

C Diminished scale contains two mixolydian tetrachords. The first being of the root and the second being of the flat 5:

We can of course extend scales as we have looked at in Jazz Scale Extensions

DENNIS SANDOLE: Bi tonal scales, polyscales[MULTI] scales concepts/ideas.

Dennis Sandole Scale Lore: Developing Poly/multiple scales. Although being most noted as John Coltrane’s Mentor/Teacher Dennis Sandole was unique in his musical thinking.

Here is an example of a polytonal scale idea:

Here we have another polytonal/multiple scale idea:

Here we employ triplets.

Below are some “Mixed up” ideas as concepts to get a flow and to syncopate and get a feel for it. These are only exercises but create interest by the way the different scales appear and move.

16ths mix #2

16ths mix #3

Here are some of Dennis Sandole’s own sketches/ideas

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