The fly is OK, it has very good neck, but it has sort of strange unnatural sound. I like it, it is my main practice guitar, I doubt if I will make videos with it anymore

I do not agree that this is just a new style, first off you have to assign a parent scale instead of assuming everything is western scale, 2nd you have to assign Quartal to the chord type, the chords are stacked 4th and 5ths as in Love Supreme, basically this is 2 chord song.

Flamenco Sketches is based on stacking the scale in 4ths and 5ths, yes Cma7 G7sus is a good approximation but it is a approximation the real magic is doing it right, other wise you won't get that mysterious sound, I think I know how to do it but won't give it away.


I got this off the internet,

JoeB
May 14th, 2009, 07:19 PM
Bill Evan's liner notes on the Kind of Blue album describe the tune Flamenco Sketches as: "a series of five scales, each to be played as long as the soloist wishes until he has completed the series".

The book Kind of Blue (The Making of the Miles Davis Masterpiece) by Ashley Kahn shows a long-lost photograph of Cannonball's music stand that a recording engineer in the studio took the day Flamenco Sketches was recorded. On the stand is a piece of staff paper with the scales written out in Bill's handwriting.

It unfortunately has the middle of two of the scales obscured by the horn's mouthpiece cover, and the accompanying book text seems to name two of the scales incorrectly. Based on enlarging the picture, accounting for alto sax transposition, listening to the recorded lines, etc. I get the following basic chord to scale series for "Flamenco Sketches":

|: Cma7 G7sus :| ... C D E F G A B C

|: Ab9sus :| ... Eb F Gb Ab Bb C Db Eb

|: Bbma7 F7sus :| ... Bb C D Eb F G A Bb

|: D Eb/D (Dsusb9) :| ... D Eb F# G A Bb C D (soloists sometimes play F instead of F#)

|: G-9 :| ... G A Bb C D E F G

Over the scales, Bill wrote what looks like the instruction to "play in the sound of these scales". Bill only wrote out the scale notes, not the chords; nor did he name the scales.

It's great fun to try to come up with nice melodies given the tune itself has no theme. If anyone has access to this book or experience playing the tune I'd be interested in your take on the scales and chords.