So I've been working more and more on creating 'outside' lines in more or less normal playing situations. i.e., over the V chord in a blues.

Mostly I've been going to the Diminished scale, sometimes from the root, or sometimes a half step up from the root to get more angular. Think Robben Ford.

I've also found that with dominant 7 chords, you can go up a minor third from the root of the chord, and play typical mixolydian ideas and get a pretty cool 'bop' outside sound.

Anyway, I'm wondering if anyone has some good stuff they're playing around with that they would like to share?

Hey Funk Jazz! Good to see you around. Your post took me back to an old post of mine on a similar topic. Check it out here and maybe it will apply

http://forums.musicplayer.com/ubbthreads.php/topics/1363336/What_are_the_magic_notes#Post1363336

See ya,

S

Awesome, Pauldil has a nice thought there. Wonder what that dude is up to...

Good to see BOTH of yez Brers heres 'bouts!

I've always liked the whole tone walk between I and V and chromatic 9th arpeggios in chaotic note patterns from V - IV.

Yeah, with Funk Jazz and Steevo both here, it's like old times. I do wonder what ever happened to Pauldil. I still have a few of his tunes on my computer. (For that matter, I think I have one of yours as well, Funk Jazz.)

Re: "playing outside" - yes, I know what you're talking about here - but it also reminds me of a famous picture of Albert Collins playing OUTSIDE the Bottom Line, that late lamented club in Manhattan.
He must have had a long cord! (I don't think they used wireless too much back then...)

Playing outside the chord changes? I think of it as spice. It can add a lot to a meal, but you don't eat a plateful of paprika, do you? LOL
Dissonance is cool if used right! But soon or later you gotta resolve..... or it ain't music.. at least that's what Leonard Bernstein thought.
I do have to say that some music is so bland and generic I can hardly listen to it, and part of the problem is lack of harmonic spice... or rhythmic, but that's another topic!