Christopher Woitach
From:
Portland, Oregon, USA
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Posted 19 Mar 2010 9:46 am |
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This is for E9 or Uni - I don't know enough about the C6 neck, but I'm sure you can do it, somehow...
Over a resolving dominant seventh chord, in modern jazz, a popular scale to use is the seventh mode of melodic minor, which some call Super Locrian, or the "altered" scale (don't really like this term, myself). Over a G7, for example, you could play an Ab melodic minor.
The melodic minor scale contains 3 suspended triads, at the 1,2, and 5. With the B pedal engaged, you have a suspended triad from strings 3-8 (to 12 on a Uni). Over a resolving G7 (next chord is C major, C minor, Gb major, or G minor), engage the B pedal, and play Ab sus, Bb sus , and Eb sus (4, 6, and 11 fret), and resolve down (or up) to next chord.
You can also get a very nice quartal (stack of 4ths) chord on strings 3,4,5 and 7 with B pedal. These can substitute for many things, or be used to plane over a static mi7 chord, for a little tension.
Pedal steel is very cool - I'm enjoying it, even though it hurts, somewhat.
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Russ Wever
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Kansas City
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Posted 19 Mar 2010 10:58 pm
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also get a very nice quartal (stack of 4ths)
chord on strings 3,4,5 and 7 with B pedal. |
Yeah, and on those same strings without the
B pedal ya have two 4ths with a Maj 3rd on
top, also referred to as the 'So What'
(Miles Davis) chord.
Back to having the B pedal down, if ya also
have the 9th string lowered to C# (a quite
common change, often on the knee that
lowers string 2), you then have five notes
(strings 9, 7, 5, 4 & 3) that
are stacked in 4ths.
~Russ
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