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AutoTonic frees you from keyboard scale practice to improvise freely...
I just downloaded this new program for Mac and PC to test. Free download to try it out.
You can embed any scale (Pentatonic, Blues, etc.) in any key linearly on the white keys of your keyboard and use the black keys to trigger different scales in real time. So you don't have to learn the fingering of the scale. Just play the white keys and not hit a wrong note.
Now you can improvise without practicing scales! Embed the Bebop scale and make runs like Charlie Parker!
Question: Is this cheating?
Did you know that Irving Berlin could only play in the key of Gb using only the black keys?
Did you know that Bob Dylan got kicked out of his first band tryout in high school because he could only play in the Key of C?
I set it up today using Logic Pro X which was a bit tricky but, Dev was responsive and timely.
Will start playing with it tomorrow.
Comments
Nice! Is it cheating? Hell no! You still gotta have rhythm in you.
I think learning scales may be cheating, like using presets. In fact buying instruments and not making your own might be cheating. Like in the old days when painters scoffed those who bought brushes rather than cut and trim their own horse tails etc. Point of no return for me!
Quantize ftw!
Can't thumb jam do this?
Nealry all western scales follow a pattern, (the most well known exception to this is pentatonic which leaves some out)
All notes in a scale are numbered
I, II,III,IV,V,VI,VII,I
It is the patterns you use with these (what order you play them in) that makes a melody, and it is the combinations of these that make a chord (I + III + V being the root chord), when you work like this, the actual scale is largely irrelevant - This is exactly what you are doing when you limit the keys to the scale (as you can do in gadget, or the above mentioned app)
So you are concentrating your learning on the real theory of scales, and not limiting your learning to one single scale.
Learning individual scales is practicing how to play a particular instrument, and not necessarily learning music.