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--- In , Richard <errant_jedi@y...>
wrote:
a lot of the lead work in
> guitar driven instro music is done "over the fifth,"
> as in whatever root chord/bass note is being played by
> the bass/rhythm guitar, the lead guitar player will be
> playing in the key of the fifth of the root as opposed
> to the root, like if the rhythm player is strumming an
> A then the lead guitar will play it's riff in E.
>
This is, from a theoretical perspective, BS. I can understand that it
might be a way to communicate about music for selfthought musicians,
and there is nothing wrong with that. but it doesn't really make
sense.
DISCLAIMER: By no means am i suggesting that anyone should know all
this to make music, or do i mean disrespect for selftought musicians
that make up their own vocabulary for talking about music. whatever
works for you works for you.
Phew, having said that:
- first of all: what key of E? there's the 7 classical keys of E,
various pentatonics, a-tonal, chromatic, whole-tone, and various
variations. at the same time, one set of notes can be differnet
scales depending on the context ( |Iwould say: bgin and end note, but
that's not entirely correct. anyway, as in Am scale an C major scale)
- there is no such thing as two keys at once, as in 'he is playing in
a and the other guy is playing in E, you would be playing some weird
scale together.
But, more then likely, bass/backing guitar are simply playing the
chord, and that scale you refer to is not the scale of E but a
different A scale. In your example, it would probably actually be E
minor (aeolic - sp?) which has one # (F#), and so being A minor #6
scale (forgot he right name for that scale) anyway, it's a rather
common scale with an Am and a D (f#!) in the backing, allowing for
nice bluesy double tone on g and b strings.
something similar happens in Margaya: just because you start the
melody on the 5th of a scale, doesn't make it a different scale.
