Little My
Practice makes better.
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I avoided the difficult scales. 4 sharps and three flats is my limit. Then I got a new orchestra piece. 6 flats. Now I'm struggling, really struggling. The 6 flat gear doesn't exist in my brain. Neither does Cb.
Ignore them at your peril.
It was realising that the blues in concert E at jam sessions weren't going away anytime soon that made me face up to the gaps in my knowledge. I am living proof of the need to keep on practising them, even after you've got them down. I almost certainly was kidding myself - playing them over an Aebersold playalong did not, in my case, equate to knowing them inside out. Good luck!
I have put my circle drawing back on top of the music stack. I think it is going to be a lifetime work.I've found going round the circle backwards and fwds playing major and relative minor, really useful. I am getting through them faster but they don't all come easily just yet.
Jx
Today I did some more work on C melodic minor, played the whole tone scale on C, then somewhat in shock, played through all the other whole tone scales too. These are going to take some work, there are places where my fingers flatly deny the instruction from my brain. I played through Nica's Dream and am going to spend a bit of time this evening identifying all the chord symbols in it and working out their associated scales and chord tones.