At 11:46 AM -0400 7/2/07, Christopher Smith wrote:
However, Hiro brings up the point that most jazz musicians like to think of chord scales as originating from the bass note, NOT from the parent key, which I recognized as well, which is why I wanted to supply a name starting on G if at all possible. I don't see a big difference between Gm7(b13) and Gm7(b6) (the latter was my solution) so in that we are in agreement.
And this points up a comment I made earlier. I accept that jazz musicians like to think of chord scales (or modal scales or whatever), but pop musicians certainly do not. I suspect that it has much to do with improvisation, which is more a matter of stylization or ornamentation in pop music rather than free improv. Thus, since most of my use of chord symbols is in non-jazz music, I don't think that way at all. For my use chord symbols are harmonic structures, plain and simple.
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