Tonight I was talking with one of my good friends who happens to be a jazz sax player and we got to talking about our music lessons from a teacher's and student's perspective. We discussed the tune, "All the Things You Are," by Jerome Kern and how it changes keys in thirds and discussed the R.N.A. (Roman Numeral Analysis) of the tune.
This led to discussing the scales that can be played over the tune, and how important the major scale is. My friend shared a scale exercise with me that I could apply to my guitar which seems so simple, but sounds more musical than technical (as guitar finger exercises often do). It's a nice exercise and let's the player really hear each arpeggio of the scale as well as the sound of the major scale while learning the notes of each scale and arpeggio. So here it is:
Be sure to play in all keys (going up a fourth, half-step, whole-step, etc.)
The Exercise: Take the C Major Scale (C D E F G A B) and starting from C, play the 1st, 3rd, 5th, and 7th note of the scale or C major 7 chord (C, E, G, B) then walk back down the scale (A, G, F, E, D) to the next note, D, then play the 1st, 3rd, 5th, and 7th of the D minor 7 chord then walk down the scale (C, B, A, G, F, E) to E and continue on this pattern for the remainder of the scale.
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