Good Music suggestions? Modal music accepted!

JOE_MARSH · #1 12-23-2009, 08:35 AM

OK..Im looking for some new sugestions of musical artist's to add to my always growing,never ending collection of music!

Please offer up any suggestions of some bands or solo artists you think I should check out!

Modal music as well...I just got the modes down and Im exploring what they can do!

Any suggestions guys!

Rudreax · #2 12-23-2009, 08:38 AM

Miles Davis and John Coltrane.

JOE_MARSH · #3 12-23-2009, 08:43 AM

Ok..coltrane and davis are first up on the list!

OlSkewl56 · #4 12-23-2009, 08:44 AM

Joe Bonamassa.

MalcolmAmos · #5 12-23-2009, 08:52 AM

Relative modes are hard to work into a song, now paralell modes flow into a song with ease. Joe Satriani explains this very well. Do a Google on; Satriani, pitch axis. Here is one that does a good job of showing how the vamp works. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5SckV...eature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZTQol...eature=related
Key stays the same notes change.

I've come to the conclusion modal vamps work best under modes because vamps sustain the modal mood.

Chord progression work best under scales because chord progressions point to the tonal center.

IMO you waste the modal mood if you play modes over chord progressions.

IMO a bass playing modes can be in competition with the lead instrument and should be used only when the bass becomes the lead instrument - when it's your lead break.

My opinion........

**lowendfriend** · #6 12-23-2009, 09:24 AM

Sonny Landreth....Louisiana slide guitar master....especially Levee Town and Grant Street albums.

King Crimson....Discipline

Ry Cooder.....start with Best of.....very complex guy to explain...you'll see.

Thelonious Monk....Alone in San Francisco....his "off tones" have been characterized as his desire to have the option of quarter step notes.

JOE_MARSH · #7 12-23-2009, 09:32 AM

Pitch Axis is cool AMOS...Im getting some Satriani this weekend for the drive down to Tennessee... Prolly some coltrane too...anymore suggestions guys?

pasta4lnch · #8 12-23-2009, 09:34 AM

I'll go Pop . . . the latest Jason Mraz album is kicking. Great bass lines and killer songwriting and HORNS!! I was BIG time hooked

TimK · #9 12-23-2009, 09:36 AM

Can't go wrong with Phish. 1993-2004 era.

Kevin.Kevin · #10 12-23-2009, 06:45 PM

Weird that you said modal music is fine...Ibet you've been hearing "modal music" for a long time and didnt notice.

Anyways though i've been rocking Some Quantic Soul orchestra and his smaller combo's recently. It's like Latin Funk Jazz. Same with lots of Afrobeat and old funk. Fela Kuti, Te Budos Band, lee Fields, The Daktari's, Antibalas ect..

here a hint, type the name of the artist or album into Google with either Blogspot, or Rapidshare after it and I bet you find a D/L for the Album. Generally I buy my albums, but sometimes they are just to difficult to find, so the D/L will have to suffice till I can find somewhere that carries it.

HaVIC5 · #11 12-23-2009, 10:08 PM

Whoa, whoa, a rather broad definition of "modal music" if we're going to include all of the the artists mentioned here under that umbrella. I think you should be more specific. "Modal music" can mean a bunch of things....

1. Renaissance music using modal counterpoint (in the style of Palestrina and earlier). This is general what classical musicians think of as "modal music".

2. So-called "modal" jazz. This is slightly a misnomer, as a lot of musicologists prefer "impressionistic" jazz, since modality is treated very loosely most of the time and a lot of additional harmonic and melodic techniques (side-slipping, multi-tonic systems, chromatic sequences, chromatic super-imposition, etc) are used beyond that of pure modal diatonicism. This is probably what you meant. Kind of Blue-era Miles Davis, late (post Giant-Steps) John Coltrane, most McCoy Tyner (he made the parallel 4ths sound popular), and virtually every jazz musician past the 1960's have made careers exploiting that modal sound.

3. Any music that employs a greek mode besides Ionian (IE, music which is neither tonally major or minor)). This would be a very general definition including tunes like "Scarborough Fair" (dorian), Norweigian Wood (mixolydian), God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen (Aeolian), etc, etc.

CoffeeJanitor · #12 12-24-2009, 12:34 AM

Flecktones. First couple albums, new Christmas album to start out...

Mingus- Black Saint and the Sinner Lady.

P-FUNK

+1 for Monk and the other legends