Posted: Fri Oct 19, 2007 9:04 am
I play a few instruments - piano, chromatic harmonica, trombone.I would enjoy reading how "the concept" was used to solve your musical problems
The trombone and harmonica both have a physical layout (limitations) that you must work with.
Early on, the idea of vertical gravity got me away from having to play certain horizontal melodies that were in the "popular domain" in jazz, which sometimes required certain kinds of gestures to prepare and resolve "avoid notes" in a certain way. If these gestures didn't lay right in a certain key on a difficult instrument, then you would trip over the phrase.
The vertical gravity idea and the member scales meant you could land on any note in the scale and it would stand alone if need be. And the extended array of member scales meant you had a LOT of choices. So out of all the given choices, there was always some combination of melodic and physical choices that worked.
And of course, you could still play a major scale melody in a key where it really lay well.