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Guide Tones & Patterns
By clicking a button, you can automatically generate (1) Guide Tones, (2) GT Arpeggios and (3) Patterns to any tune that you've input into PalkaScore.
You can also match any scale to these.
AND You can automatically find ii-V-I's and match solos to them.
Guide Tones
Below is a 3-measure sequence from "After You've Gone"
Clicking the button to generate Guide Tones, we get ...
Notice that the notes are blue. You can switch between showing the score notes and the calculated blue notes with a side button.
Here we add simple connecting notes to the Guide Tones:
By putting "Asblues" in the text box, you can fit the A Blues scale [A C D Eb E G] to the notes.
Looks pentatonic to me. In this case, the Eb didn't turn up enough. There is a way to change the note weighting distribution. Just put "W" at the end of the scale name.
Instead, let's try the C Blues scale [C Eb F F# G Bb]:
Patterns
We can also fit a pattern to the chord changes. Here we use [5+1+2+3-1-6]. Besides the 30 or so patterns available, you can easily create your own.
Here we fit "A Harmonic Minor Scale" [A B C D E F Ab] to the pattern:
P31 [b1+1+b3+3-b5+5] uses lower neighbor tones:
Combining
Using brackets, we can mix and match patterns:
Clearing the bracketed area
Replacing it with a previous technique
Making it seamless
Importing Solos
By selecting one of the internal solos, PalkaScore will find ii-V-I's in the score and transpose the solo to fit it.
Here's a Sonny Stitt solo fit into Autumn Leaves:
Here we fit the score of Autumn Leaves around the solo:
Yes, you can input your own solos.
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