GeneralGoldilocks wrote:Hey now... i like his "ragged but right" vid on you tube and tabs. it really explores jerry's use of the diminished scale to get those cowboy jazz licks that are so unique. half django, half merl haggards tele player. jerry uses the same scales in deal. basically, when you go to the 4, a diminished scale is substituted, and creates a killer lick that no pentatonic rock guitar player who is just wanking out one five note scale over a whole solo is going to get. jerry's was more of a country jazz approach. you change scales at every chord change in the progression...
This totally caught my attention - so I get the part about playing notes from a specific scale over each chord as the chords change, when you mention substituting a diminished scale over the 4, is that just that in a I IV V progression, during the IV you would play notes from a corresponding diminished scale - like in C F G I would play notes from the C maj scale while over the C, the F diminished scale while over F and the G maj scale while over G? Or play a C maj scale during the whole song and use C diminished while over the 4th chord in the progression?
Finally started learning real basic gypsy swing and it opened up my eyes to just playing notes from the scale of the chord you are over vs playing one scale throughout the whole song based on the key - at least I think it works because it sounds right with all the minor scales - maybe that's the point that chords that work together all share the same scale, well der, but for getting at that country/jazz fusion mentioned above, this kinda works.
JG
