PDF + Tabs + Jam Track for new Dorian video
Added 2018-09-08 20:14:06 +0000 UTCHEY EVERYONE I hope you're enjoying your weekend!
Im gonna come clean- I have a jazz deficiency. The first time I was ever able to sound slightly jazzy was with the help of dorian and the i-IV progression. A little pentatonic minor on top with a sprinkling of natural 6th, and I felt like Santana.
I'm trying to shine the light on others with my newest video on Dorian (it should publish tonight) and have included a jam track here for that I made, as well as a PDF that includes tabs and the scale degree/chord formula. It shows the scale shape and fingering I use for Dorian, plus the way I play Pentatonic Minor with the added 6th, making a weird hexatonic scale of which I don't know the name.
Above all else, this stuff is just flat out fun. If you have a half decent bassist and drummer that can hold down a groove, then i-IV will go a loooong way with some keys and guitarist. It might be my favorite 2 chord jam.
One thing I know people will coment on so I'll just mention it now. When referring to Am-D , why do I call it i - IV and not ii-V?
Saying ii-V implies we are going back to I, and I would be our tonal center (G in this case). Doing this keeps us firmly in G major. By resetting our tonal center to A, A becomes our new "one chord". I hope this makes sense and doesn't offend anyone's theory tenets =D
