How Brecker Broke The Bebop Scale (Now It's Even Better)

[@UkuleleAversion]

I play piano but was transcribing some Brecker over Impressions a while back and I noticed this exact pattern.

[@sorenballegaardmusic]

Yes, he was a pattern guy, but was also amazing in changing the patterns. I need do a lot more Brecker

[@percyvolnar8010]

ANOTHER ONE! This is a great video, Soren! The way you're breaking this down is very much in-line with Steve Colemans M-Base Pathways. Loving it and there is plenty here to practice!!

[@sorenballegaardmusic]

Everytime I'm only scratching the surface, when you dig deeper there is so so much more. Love that music keeps amazing me

[@victormusic01x]

..visions of the main course of the meal, it would probably take 20 years of deep study and immersion to get into all of MB’s stuff..thanks Soren for sharing this

[@sorenballegaardmusic]

True that, we will just take it in bite sized chunks hahahaha:) thank you so much for commenting

[@MrFractalito1]

another great video .... gracias, Soren . Mucha diversión al tocar esto en guitarra, saludos.

[@sorenballegaardmusic]

Thank you so much, Brecker was a huge fan of guitar. He emulated the sound of the guitar much.

[@EverybodyBurts]

I'm a drummer and this is amazing.

[@sorenballegaardmusic]

That's really cool, thank you for getting in and commenting. Nice that it works for drummers too

[@percyvolnar8010]

I saw Brecker playing drums in 96.. THIS was a profound moment for me. Words cannot express how frighteningly good he was behind a kit. No one ever believes me when I tell them Brecker was a drummer as no footage of him even practicing drums exists. No joke. He was that good. I still get goose bumps thinking about it.

[@sorenballegaardmusic]

He was an amazing drummer indeed. But check this workshop out. at 15:00 kzbin.info/www/bejne/g3atdmWKi7ZkbK8 There is Brecker on drums

[@percyvolnar8010]

@@sorenballegaardmusic Thanks, Soren!! You are soo awesome! So, there is a video of him playing afterall. I'll have to bookmark this. And hes swinging here. When i saw him in 96 he was playing some funk grooves with some incredibly clean ghost-notes.

[@percyvolnar8010]

@@sorenballegaardmusic OMG. He says in this video that he switched to playing sax after he heard Cannonball Adderley play. Which makes sense because I can hear so much of Cannonball's outside playing in his playing. But this is cool knowing Cannonball was a DIRECT influence. WOW! Soren, Thank you again for sharing this link!!

[@JulienT976]

Génial 👍🏼🎉

[@sorenballegaardmusic]

Thank you so much.

[@alanhirayama4592]

David Baker at IU have been promoting this pattern since he started teaching there in the 60s until his passing. MB attended IU for a while so perhaps he got this idea there.

[@percyvolnar8010]

Exactly. Its not a Brecker thing... Its a Cannonball Adderly 'thing' that Eric Dolphy gave an identity to... and David Baker KNEW that. He was a GREAT teacher and wrote some GREAT books.

[@sorenballegaardmusic]

Some nice history there. Thank you so much for sharing this. Love to get deeper, but there is so little time to get everything under your fingers.

[@sorenballegaardmusic]

Super cool, thank you so much for the insights. Amazing stuff right there.

[@percyvolnar8010]

@@sorenballegaardmusic Soren, you're so RIGHT.. There is so little time to get everything under your fingers. But you are "COOKING" in this video. :)

[@sorenballegaardmusic]

@@percyvolnar8010 you are super, so Inspiring and keep talking me up. Thank you so much

[@richardjohnson9218]

No such thing as scales. Just target chord tones with neighbor tones or chromatics.

[@sorenballegaardmusic]

I think you will get some opposition out there with that statement. Because scales are real. I would say what you are describing is what Coleman Hawkins called movement. Then you can choose to play what ever to make the movement happen, and I do believe scales is one of the things you can choose to play