- MAMI Scale Atlases are the ultimate guitar
scale chart references.
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- They allow you to chart any potential chord
that can be played on your
- instrument for a given scale, including
inversions.
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- MAMI's "Matrix Approach" helps you
to create music by identifying guitar scale
- chords but also by
showing you logical sequences for harmonizing musical elements
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like chords, triads, and arpeggios throughout the guitar's fingerboard.
He plays mainly trio work and
often employs an unusual 7-string tuning: A-E-A-D-G-B-E
using the low "A" primarily for
"jazz" bass type riffs and lines.
Analyzing the potential with
MAMI shows that the tuning allows for
some really
interesting nontraditionally low range chords /
harmonies also.
Originally, when I
discovered his tuning I
wondered about the logic of Jimmy
changing the low "B" to an
"A". No longer!...
Once I charted the tuning using M.A.M.I. it was easy to see
the logic
and purpose behind such a change, especially from a harmonic
viewpoint.
As accomplished as Jimmy is (and he is
truly tops!) I presented him
with
a copy of the M.A.M.I. Scale Atlas in the hope that he might see some
more
uses (particularly harmonically) for his unique tuning.
Our scale atlases
allow players to visualize the instrument as well as to
"see inside the scale" to find
ideas, such new chord inversions,
patterns, lines, positions, etc. to
play.
Experimentation is key!
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