question about jazz guitar?
I'm fairly new to jazz, and i was just wondering. say you're playing a 2 5 1 in the key of g and you wanted to solo over it. could you just use g ionion the whole time? or is it better to change modes.
thanks
I'm fairly new to jazz, and i was just wondering. say you're playing a 2 5 1 in the key of g and you wanted to solo over it. could you just use g ionion the whole time? or is it better to change modes.
thanks
Ryan
Favorite Answer
it really doesn't matter. Jazz is improvisational music so you could start with g ionian and explore away from it. I had a great jazz guitar player tell me one time "It doesn't matter what note comes next in the solo as long as the note after resolves it. If you hit a "sour" note just play like it was supposed to be in the solo to add dissonance. It can be tricky sometimes when exploring the guitar but there is NEVER as set scale that you SHOULD be playing in. If you choose to stay in G Ionian the whole time you can thats your personal choice. If you choose to switch back and forth between ionion and dorian thats your personal choice also it completely up to you....thats the beauty of music...your the one in control of the solo no one else.
Anonymous
You won't be changing anything, you'll be playing the same notes over a major ii V I whether you stick to G major or play the modes. Nobody used scales or modes in improvising until modal jazz kicked off with 'porgy and bess' and later 'kind of blue' . The sound of jazz before this period is chord tones or alias chord tones connected with embellishments(i.e any note), nothing more.
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Just one opinion here, I'm sure the others have good advice as well. It is important to know where the thirds and sevenths of each change are.
It probably wouldn't hurt to experiment with the related modes and get a feel for how each one sounds over the chord.