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expanding your harmonic palate with symmetrical scales.

ppgf

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here's a little ditty (completely off the dome) utilizing the half step whole step scale.
<iframe src="https://player.vimeo.com/video/129970064" width="500" height="500" frameborder="0" webkitallowfullscreen="" mozallowfullscreen="" allowfullscreen=""></iframe> .5/whole from roe bocoptick on Vimeo.
 
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ppgf

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another example. check slonimsky's thesaurus of scales and melodic patterns. coltrane did.

<iframe src="https://player.vimeo.com/video/129987346" width="500" height="500" frameborder="0" webkitallowfullscreen mozallowfullscreen allowfullscreen></iframe> <p><a href="https://vimeo.com/129987346">.5/whole rev2</a> from <a href="https://vimeo.com/user40720077">roe bocoptick</a> on <a href="https://vimeo.com">Vimeo</a>.</p>
 

Dave P

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Pete Wagener has been trying to get me into some whole tone/half tone stuff.
 
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