The Altered Scale | From Practice To Performance
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- Опубліковано 8 чер 2024
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I wonder how many musicians, period, not just bass players, could have improved in the past or will improve so much by taking this advice. This kind of learning used to be the preserve of music schools or simply the “dark arts”. Anyone can get melodic minor theory online or from a book, but the actual advice and experience is where the magic lies. To be able to have this delivered totally free is fantastic. Thank you!
Got this book, and feels like I'm on a little journey of improvement for the first time in a good while. No BS. Hondo approved! lol
Dude...Somehow just seeing this. I love you even more now Janek. "Big fan of the ear before all the jargon". Yesss sir.
Great content Janek. As always your explanation is important, to contextualise your ideas and give more imersion on the topic.
Thank you!
I respect you so much janek,i’m sure it’ll definitely help us i’m your huge fan
I’m a guitar player but i enjoy a lot learning from you!
Just go the book. Can’t wait for the many hours ahead I will spend with it. Thank you!!
I haven't finished the video yet. But I wanted to comment on the idea of ear/sound before theory. And I can't agree enough. Theory is important, and theory is incredible for understanding things and helping you find your way. However, music theory is descriptive, not determinant. Its function is to describe what is there and, especially, help musicians communicate their ideas. And to spread the idea that theory is more important than the ear is like telling a visual artist that the name of the colors are more important than their eyesight. I apologize for the rant. But this has been a long internal debate, and it felt really great to see a master in the craft out there with a similar idea!
One of the best bass video lessons ever.
Great Lesson thanks Janeck !
Got the new book , your always been a great inspiration ..!
Rewatched 1 year later - makes more sense this time, possibly due to my purchase of your Altered book. Thank you 👍😊
Nice! You're a great teacher, I enjoy your videos.
I have a couple of his other books. And they come with videos of each exercise. They're really good. I've learned more off him than anyone else.
@@brandonmalone1893 Yeah I'm actually more of an upright bass player now typically than electric, even though I started with electric, but I find a lot of his stuff very interesting and inspiring!
_The ear comes first...,_ words of wisdom.
late to the game here , but all of Janek education products are very well done , you simply want to dig into it , Thanks Janek
thanks a lot for your vision..
Just ordered mine
This looks great. Is there a treble clef section like with the other books?
"To 2021, which couldn’t arrive fast enough." well said
I really like following you
Really cool lessons. I love it. Quick little observation though (my luthier ears got tickled). I think your neck pickup might be too high on the treble side. It's adding overtones to your notes. :)
Hi Janek! Do you have some exercices to help connect the altered scale with the Minor or Major scale to make music with it? It always been my main struggle while using both. Also if you have a book that has those exercices it would be awsome! Great video btw! :D
great video, pretty much tells me everything i was curious about with the last comment i made on one of your more recent videos. saying that, you may find this to be an annoying question but: is the melodic minor typically treated in jazz as it is in classical music, where it reverts to a natural minor scale when descending? according to my ear that isnt what you are doing in this video, but my ear has been wrong before.
Where did u get it from coz i also need it yeap.
Any plans to make a version of this adapted to guitar?
the ideas translate to every instrument
in standard notation when there one-note how u know if it's on the e string or a string?
The book physical book does not ship to Singapore :(
Is there no Amazon in Singapore?
@@janekgwizdala It says "this item could not be shipped to your selected delivery location" *sob*
Exactly the same for Spain ☹️☹️
@@wardet Crazy that it's not available in those countries right now... It might just be a question of time, and that it's a brand new book. Could need a few days to propagate to the various Amazon outlets around the world.
@@janekgwizdala it is already available 😉
When did quentin tarantino start playing bass?
I strongly disagree with thinking of altered as a melodic minor. I believe your ears are just so good you really don't think of the theory, but if you think about it you'll see your ears don't agree with your description. If we're in C as in your example (on G7), Does the Db function as a 4th? Does the Eb function as a 5th? The altered scale is clearly evoking the sound of a tritone sub. In this case, Db7. But playing Db7 mixolodiyan would have the Gb which is clashes with the dominant sound of G7. So it's modified to a natural G and you get a lydian dominant on Db.
The point is actually never to think about theory ever. That is never more important than when you're improvising. But the assessment of an altered scale being the 7th mode of the melodic minor is accurate. It's not altered AS a melodic minor, but altered as the 7th mode of the melodic minor. Big difference.
And yes, the Db does function as a 4th/11th. A sharp 11th or flat 5th, and the Eb functions as a flat 13th.
But it's all academic. Literally. If one can't play and doesn't know what to do with it, and hasn't immersed themselves in the sound of this harmony and melody before, it's a bit of a waste of time discussing it. To me it's a bit of waste of time discussing period until you're operating on a performance level where using this sound is a natural extension of your playing.
@@janekgwizdala Thanks for answering, I appreciate you taking the time! Putting the indeed-academic debate aside, I guess my problem is I am not on your level and I DO need to think about it academically, until I get to the level I am fluent in it. Similar as to how when I learned spanish, I would try to note etymological similarities to english (the spanish "cantar" is similar to "chant" in english). That would give some foundation to my learning, until I got fully fluent at which point I don't need any tricks to remember the word. Similarly here -- do you have any tips on how to get fluent in a new concept without starting from an academic standpoint?
@@crapadopalese My advice is to do the exact opposite of what it sounds like you're doing. You're purposely going into the process trying to add things to your thought process, when the only thing that matters (if you want to be a fluent speaker/performer) is the connection of your ear to your instrument. And the only way you do that is from constant immersion in the music you want to play, transcription of that music (regardless of whether you notate it or not), and then repetition of the vocabulary you transcribe, eventually putting it into musical context and performing with others.
If you have to think about theory and academia when you're trying to perform, the performance will never be honest. The less things in the chain between your ear and your instrument, the more pure the performance. If you HAD to think about Cantar being like Chant every time you wanted to use the word, it would take you days to have a conversation that should take 5 minutes. That is memory. What you're looking for is knowing, not remembering.
This freaks me out because I was literally playing the altered scale and then opened UA-cam and saw this. Just me?
UA-cam algorithm is secretly listening to us all :)
I don't wear a tin foil hat, but I do think people are listening to us... just too many coincidences of advertising these days. 😳
Hahaha me too!
100%..it happens to me all the time. Too much to be coincidence
Yep. Makes you wonder....Do you have Alexa.? ... or maybe Algorithm or who knows. Sometimes I am thinking of a song and it gets played on radio and it is not a rotation thing.
28 frets?
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What’s going on with this dude looking like a cgi?
He's really intense! Looks like he's been working out and going real hard at it like he probably does with anyrhing he does.
@@terrimac7993 It's a CGI..
sorry dude, but like most of yt-tutorials YOU TALK TOO MUCH! More playing, more showing, less talking. I switched off after the first 2 Minutes...
As is your right. But quite why, like the rest of the youtube commenters on earth, you feel the need to advertise your negative feelings to the world, is beyond me. If it was that bad, why take the time to be an asshole in the comments? Why not move on with your day, and find someone who doesn't talk as much?
Or maybe, JUST maybe, you could not be the product of all social media, and regain an attention span longer than 2 minutes, and actually learn something. Music doesn't happen in 2 minutes, it happens over many decades. So rather than looking for the shortest route to what you think the answer might be, take the video for what it is: a relatively minor fraction of some decades.
Also, if you're going to apologize before telling me something I did sucks, why comment in the first place? pick a lane.