JM-Scales & Licks

In nearly every kind of music-style scales are the base material out of which composers often if not always have composed their pieces of music. Also all chords, wether if basic or extended, originate from these scales.

Each musician wether which music-style he´s playing should have a good knowledge about scales as one uppermost priority. This is not different of course in JazzManouche or Gypsyjazz.

Particularly essential parts of the auditory education of musicians (thus also guitarrists) is happening by the use and training of scales, because by listening to the single intervals of scales the process of understanding and learning to really hear "music" takes place all the same (cf. Frank Sikora, "The new Jazz-harmony").



On the following pages of the Scales & Licks-Series we show some of the most useful Scales as well as of scales for JazzManouche:

Major-scales
Minor-scales
Major-/Minor-scales
Gypsy-scales
Diminished scales

Licks again are small pieces of music mostly generated from or made out of scales that have been used as whole or partly. In our section "JM-Lick of the month" we show some kind of Licks, mainly these utilized in JazzManouche.



You better like to have all this information  about scales in a compact form for offline reading? No problem!

Within our "JM-Scales-Book" we present 20+ scales, explained in full detail with charts and application examples.

Here you may directly download your own copy of the "JM-Scales-Book" for only 19,90 €