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at the same time-doing this has me thinking/seeing that it's much easier when you have a line that's complicated rhythmically to write out the rhythm first,then deal with the pitches.......check it out and let me know what you think.......
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i definately second that idea. rhythm is everything, also, when you are figuring out the rhythm the melody is usually also indivisble from that, so by figuring out the rhythm you'll naturally figure out the melody. it usually doesn't work the other way around, by figuring out the pitches the rhythm doesn't naturally fall in to place.
i believe thinking about scales may get in the way of what the music needs.
(go ahead - throw darts at me:)
is a iii vi ii v in the key of f with ab7 being a tritone sub for d7.
so really you can use a diatonic scale choice and treat the whole passage horizonally rather than vertically.
i could say "same thing"
as far as scale choices are concerned, the am7 is the iii of the tonic (like mike says) so if you wanted to think "phrygian" instead of f major you certainly could.
over the ab7 (tritone sub for the d), you could play the diminished scale, the altered scale, the lydian dominant, db major (ab mixolydian) or (like mike says) "f major".
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