Hello. I've been exploring modal playing. Jerry performed "Tangled Up in Blue" in the key of A. I'm interested in what scale/mode to play over the G chord -- the song's flattened seventh chord. I've read that the tonic mixolydian, the D major scale in this case, should work over the G, but I can't make it sound good. The C# in particular sounds wrong. Maybe I should use a major pentatonic over the G chord. The other chords in the song are diatonic and can be played with the A major scale, but I'd love to hear any ideas about spicing those up as well.
Link to the Jerry Garcia Band performing "Tangled Up in Blue":
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dxEsBAPleRY
Link to the chords:
http://rukind.com/gdpedia/titles/show/425
Thanks for reading my first post. I hope I made my questions clear about a subject I barely comprehend.
Link to the Jerry Garcia Band performing "Tangled Up in Blue":
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dxEsBAPleRY
Link to the chords:
http://rukind.com/gdpedia/titles/show/425
Thanks for reading my first post. I hope I made my questions clear about a subject I barely comprehend.