Can't use Dominant chords over minor scales……

[john]

Ya, I’m not sure I’m following… you’re right about the composition of the dominant 7th chord.
we can work a minor scale into a major key but the other way around won’t work.
maybe you guys were talking about different things. when you get playing with him ask him to show you what he means and see if it works or not.
but if you play a major 3rd over a minor chord in a blues or rock tune it’s gonna hurt! extensions in jazz are different.

[Michael]

He didn’t make any mention of jazz, we we’re just talking about Blues, but maybe he was thinking about something jazz related. We all start to get together again the 2nd weekend of January, so we’ll see him then and see exactly what he’s talking about. One thing is for sure..if he’s a hard-core jazz player, I don’t think that style of playing will mix too well with these guys here. They are really, really big on keeping things as simple as possible, playing less=says more, and so on.

[Anonymous]

Hi Michael, at last I am understanding what you are saying regarding Chords – LOL. Did you have another look at my table? I’ve added all the 7th chords so I can work them out in any key. I’ve had flu all week and not been able to play my sax at all 🙁

[Michael]

Hi Jeff,
I think that e-mail you sent me got accidentally erased, couldn’t find it. You can e-mail it to me again if you would like. It’s all very straight-forward stuff, nothing complicated about it, someone can make these types of things complicated if they want to, but that’s not a good idea. I know being around real guitar players and what over the past few months, they’ve taught me about things they use in their own playing like Suspended Chords and Power Chords and there’s some cool stuff we as Sax players can derive out of those 2 chords to use in our own Improvising regarding note choices, when we play those notes choices, etc.. that add more ‘color’ to our playing.

[Anonymous]

Hi Michael, no I didn’t email it. I presumed you do what I do and read all the most recent forum entries.

Here is the link again.

The chord progressions are a new discovery for me, I had no idea people wrote music in such a repetitive pattern way. The matching of various groups of notes to produce various emotions in the listener is most interesting. There is far more to discover in this sonic world than I had imagined!

[Author]

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