I'm sort of new to the Grateful Deads style of improv. I've been listening for years, but I've only recently started trying to play it.
So my question is, in Ship of Fools, how do you treat the Edim7 chord? Every other chord of the song fits into the Bb Major scale, which really simplifies things as I try to improv basslines over the tune. But when I hit that Edim7, I'm lost. Mostly I've just been sticking to chord tones and keeping it extremely simple, but thats because I don't know what else to do. Knowing how to treat single chords that fall out of the main key has really been a stumbling block for me as I try to play the deads stuff.
So my question is, what scale would I want to use over this chord if I wanted to incorporate some non chord tones? Would I be right in thinking of it as the vii of V and working off of the 7th mode of the Fmajor scale? (with a Db instead of a Dnatural, ofcourse), or am I looking at this problem wrong? Some sort of explanation on this would really help me out.
So my question is, in Ship of Fools, how do you treat the Edim7 chord? Every other chord of the song fits into the Bb Major scale, which really simplifies things as I try to improv basslines over the tune. But when I hit that Edim7, I'm lost. Mostly I've just been sticking to chord tones and keeping it extremely simple, but thats because I don't know what else to do. Knowing how to treat single chords that fall out of the main key has really been a stumbling block for me as I try to play the deads stuff.
So my question is, what scale would I want to use over this chord if I wanted to incorporate some non chord tones? Would I be right in thinking of it as the vii of V and working off of the 7th mode of the Fmajor scale? (with a Db instead of a Dnatural, ofcourse), or am I looking at this problem wrong? Some sort of explanation on this would really help me out.
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