Chords for Jazz Vibraphone Lesson: Turning Scales into Melody

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_ Hey folks, in this video I'm going to [G] try and demonstrate how to take scales that you know
and turn them into melodies.
So [Eb] let's just start with any old scale.
Let's start with Bb major.
So here's the Bb major scale.
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_ [Fm] _ _ [N] _ _ _ The most important notes in a scale are the chord counts.
I'm going
to be improvising based on a Bb major chord.
So the Bb major 7 chord is [Bb] like this.
_ So maybe
maybe there's a piano player playing that chord somewhere.
What I'm going to do is start and end
short phrases _ using the chord tones to begin and end and using the scaler notes to pass through.
So let me just, I'll do it at a slow tempo.
One, [A] two.
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_ [G] _ [Bb] _ _ [F] _ _ _ _
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[F] _ _ _ _ _ [G] _ [Bb] _ _
_ _ _ Okay, so now I'm going to take the same scale,
Bb major scale, but the chord in the background is going to be a C minor.
So it's going to end
up being C dorian.
So the scale is still this. _
_ _ _ [Em] The chord is [Cm] now this.
Alright, C, Bb, G, Bb.
[Ab]
So now I'll play on that.
One, two, [Bb] a one, two, three, [Cm] four.
[D] _ [Eb] _ _ _ _
[F] _ [G] _ [Cm] _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ [D] _ [Cm] _ [Bb] _
[Eb] _ _ [Cm] _ _ [A] _ [Gm] _ [Cm] _ [Bb] _
[Eb] _ _ [Cm] _ _ _ _ _ _
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_ _ _ _ _ Now I'm going to make a little combination.
I'll do four bars of Bb, four bars of C minor.
So it'll
just go from the one chord to the two chord.
One, _
_ _ [F] _ _ _ _ [Bb] _ [F] _
_ _ [Bb] _ _ [F] _ _ [Bb] _ _
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_ _ _ _ [A] _ _ [Cm] _ _
[Gm] _ _ [Cm] _ _ [Gm] _ [G] _ [Bb] _ _
_ _ _ [Cm] _ [Dm] _ [Bb] _ _ [A] _
_ [F] _ _ [Bb] _ _ [Cm] _ [Eb] _ _
_ [Cm] _ _ [Eb] _ _ _ _ _
_ [Cm] _ _ _ _ [F] _ [Bb] _ _
two, three, four.
[G] I guess the last thing that I
would point out is that it is very important to practice these things slowly.
_ [Bb] And I really
believe in slow improvising practice.
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_ _ [G] _ [Bb] _ _ [F] _ _ _
_ _ [Bb] _ _ [F] _ _ [Gm] _ _
[Dm] _ _ [Cm] _ [Gm] _ _ _ [C] _ _
_ [Gm] _ _ _ [C] _ [Gm] _ [B] _ [C] _
_ [Eb] _ _ _ _ _ [Cm] _ _