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Supportact said: [my style is] probably more an accumulation of limitations and bad habits than a 'style'.
Supportact said: [my style is] probably more an accumulation of limitations and bad habits than a 'style'.
C melodic minor: C D Eb F G A B
Stacking 3rds on the C - C Eb G B etc (so far this is a Cm(maj7) chord)
Stacking 3rds on the D - D F A C etc (so far this is a Dm7 chord)
...and so on...
Supportact said: [my style is] probably more an accumulation of limitations and bad habits than a 'style'.
Supportact said: [my style is] probably more an accumulation of limitations and bad habits than a 'style'.
It was the assertion that the “Lydian dominant chord has nothing to do with dominant” which threw me. Now I have a clearer picture of your position, I can see where you’re coming from because as you say, it’s NOT a mode derived from the 5th note of a parent scale. However I don’t think it’s that clear cut…
My point, is that a Lydian Dominant chord IS still a type of Dominant chord and can be used as such. It’s a particular flavour to add to the palette for when 7th chords occur, whether it’s V-I or a secondary dominant.
Yup and I totes concede that. Just like Super locrian is too (though interestingly that’s not called super locrian dominant or something) - and neither of which scales actually contains the perfect 4th up to which to resolve. But both of which are fine to use in a V context. So yup.
Supportact said: [my style is] probably more an accumulation of limitations and bad habits than a 'style'.
Perhaps I’m missing something but I’m not sure I follow this. Both scales (and respective chords) have the 3 and b7 needed to resolve. Don’t know where not having perfect 4th fits in here?
Supportact said: [my style is] probably more an accumulation of limitations and bad habits than a 'style'.
Well you know what, actually on that one I'm not so sure - because a) the altered scale is almost always used in dominant position, as an alternative to a normal V chord; and b) because the word "altered" already deals with every note in the scale, because it's a major scale with every note altered downwards by one semitone (apart from the 1 and the 8 of course), so using the word dominant to refer to its 7th doesn't seem logical.
So I reckon that's like phrygian dominant - the word dominant refers to its role, not its 7th note. Whereas Lydian dominant refers to its 7th note.
But thats only a guess.
Supportact said: [my style is] probably more an accumulation of limitations and bad habits than a 'style'.
For what it’s worth, my view is they are colloquialisms from American musicians, specifically jazz players from the bebop era where the role of a V7 is a lot more fluid due to the changes constantly moving.