1yr after having a 🎹 keyboard next to my desk listening to the first few chapters of Victor Wooten's Music Lesson, I've developed a WAY closer relationship with musical scales. I confidently hit a note, & can often just FEEL where in the scale it fits.
Developing a felt sense for scales at the keyboard
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Just now, listening to Inner Peace by @ClozeeOfficial, from her 2016 Shambhala set, and I'm like fuckyeah and just whack a C. Hmmm yeah, wants to jam up to the D, and that feels like home. So I noodle on down the D minor scale. But this isn't theory: it's Dm, not "Dm"
I had a bit of fluency with this implicit scale feel on the guitar, but being able to see all the notes on the keyboard is making a huge difference, as is having it next to my desk and reach-out-able-to-play-with-one-hand-while-reading vs 🎸 in corner of room.
Other day was improv'ing on top of Coldplay's Up&Up , which has a funky thing where it's in G but during the chorus it has an F, so went hard on that F during other chords, and fucked around with a Bb. Realized after that's the blue note in Gmaj Blues 🔵
But I wasn't thinking about a "note" in a "scale", I just knew that that Bb sounded dirty as fuck. It was so raunchy I felt like I was violating a sexual taboo. It felt like I was getting away with a crime. It was so right, and so wrong. Fucking amazing 👅
Anyway, it was all a bit intense, so as the song wrapped up I did a bit of aftercare and gently played the straight B and the F# that usually hangs out with G. Told @SarahAMcManus afterwards it was kind of like ruffling the cat's hair the wrong way, then setting it right. 😽
I made a lil game version of this: