there was a really good guitarist who saw me play blues once and he gave me a big compliment on my blues playing and I think it was because I'm bored of pentatonic minor and blues scales and I'm always trying to get dorian and mixolydian bits in there
it's like a superposition of major and minor keys, you can play either the major third or the minor third, or bend from minor to major, and the tritone (sharp four, flat five) is commonplace
neither of those conditions commonly apply in many other styles of music
heh i don't know enough about scales yet to understand most of what you said, but by golly i'm learning! i basically just started learning how pentatonic scales work
theory helps, but it's just another string to your bow at the end of the day, breaking the rules can be as valuable as following them
there was a thing I watched that did some rudimentary analysis of some of the beatles' music and it turns out that some of the melodies are modal, but I guarantee you mccartney didn't realise that when he wrote them
totally, but it seems like it's basically required for jamming
i was reading something about the guitarists in coheed and cambria - they don't know any theory, and were shocked at how some dude from another band was able to improvise and jam with them
there was a track on one of my album challenges like that, I could just freestyle over all of it except this one chord I stuck in the progression, so I had to work out what I was going to do over that chord beforehand
it's weird to me how classically trained musicians often aren't capable of doing it, they're used to being given a piece of sheet music and playing it note for note, which is the "traditional" music education route
I've often maintained that those two skills are completely different, because I've never been able to sight-read for shit, but I can make things up on the fly no problem
some people can do both, well, I probably could if I bothered to apply myself but I'm lazy