19 tone scales

Paul/Mats...here's some of the 19 tone scales I've worked with over
the last 10 years. I like variety, and generally, the song dictates the
scale. I enjoy 19 immensely; it's real deceptive and subtle, and great
for extending the frontiers of jazz, blues, and a lot of pop music.
"African Stick..." this uses a 7 note scale, built off of C, F, and G
triads, with a raised 3rd in each triad...C-D-E#-F-G-A#-B#
"Birdwalk", "667 Shuffle..." these tunes use a modified blues scale,
which comes out
C-Eb-F-F#-Gb-G-A#-Bb...of course, you can also add the major 3rd, E, and
the #2nd. 19 is great for blues...
"Swing 19..." this uses a scale built off the main riff of the song...
E#-F-A#-B-D#-G#-Bb-B#..some of the notes are in one octave, some in the
next. I haven't developed this as much as I'd like.
Krantz scale...Richard Krantz, compadre of Starrett and myself, found a
bunch of 11 note scales that are real hip...here's one...
G-Ab-A#-B-C-Db-D-Eb-E-F-Gb...I am writing a couple of tunes that use
this, and I've worked out the scale tone chords as well..this one has a
lot of potential, and there's a bunch more of them, too.
"The Spider..." this uses a 19 tone row, shaped into several different
riffs...I'm too lazy to write down the sequence...every time I play it,
I have to relearn it, cause it's about the hardest thing I've ever
played in my life. I have more scales in 19, but these will do.

34 tone scales...I haven't written as much in 34..."34 Steps" is simple,
uses a whole tone scale (I guess that makes it a 17 eq scale), one motif
based off of B, one off of G. "From the West" uses an 11 tone scale I
made up; I can't find my notebook, so I can't remember the exact cents
values of all the notes. It does have some marvelous intervals,
including a small half step of about 70cents above the root; two minor
3rds, one at 5/4 (2 cents #), and the other a fret lower ( about 2cents
off the 20/17), a major 3rd, a major 7th, and a one fret # major 7th.
Sorry for the memory gaps...I'm getting old and crusty. Most of the
notes in this scale are very close to pure, and it resonates very
powerfully. My tune "Other Worlds" is a free improv in 34, and God alone
knows how many notes are used...a lot. I have a tune on my next CD which
uses a real free, atonal approach, in a 34 rock context...Zeppelin meets
McLaughlin...nasty. Thanks for the interest, keep me posted...Hstick
BTW, another tune on my upcoming disc, uses the notorious comma as the
main chordal movement...a C major chord drops one fret to another C
major chord, and there's also tw G majors as well...it's rather
haunting...

Well,i'm sure you got your own reasons for what you're doing,but in this format they just don't say that much for me.Only about the scale from African Stick:if you add E and either G# or A,you get the 9-tone MOS i call pentaenharmonic.Like this:

C D E E# F G G# A# B# C
C D E E# F G A A# B# C

A very useful scale,there are 7 fifths and all kinds of 3 and 4-note chords in it.

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