Here's the debut episode of the new Scales & Tales series from Late Night Lessons. The new scale-based series will expose, reveal, and explain some useful musical ideas, concepts, and approaches related to scales and modes.

This lesson reveals an admittingly embarrassing situation of learning how to play the opening legato run from Tesla's classic 'Modern Day Cowboy' incorrectly by ear when I was a teenager.
Instead of one single-note followed by a nine-note run, my teenage ears only heard the speed of the phrase and I thought it was a twelve-note run - which makes it a 24-note run during the extended version of this phrase.

It wasn't until I noticed a transcription of the song that I realized I was playing too many notes during the intro, but over the years I kept my incorrect version of the phrase and turned it into a series of variations that connect and race around the fretboard.
This lesson shares exploratory options with understanding how and where octaves connect on the fretboard, creating variations from a single musical idea, and much more!

I've used versions of this lesson with private lesson students for a long time and everyone seems to like the idea of selecting something interesting in music and making variations of it until you have something new, original, or different than what you had when you started.

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