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Ricardo -> RE: Warming up like Paco (Dec. 31 2022 17:13:16)
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His first noodling attempt I don’t count as he just turned his head from the interviewer and hits un intentional chromatic notes. The second run (0:47) is the definitive run and it was as I wrote note for note. The conclusion of the scale uses G and D, and the top notes down are FEDCB, so it is Lydian period, and he alters the E to Eb on the way down. In order to use the whole tone or consider the sound to be that, you need to hear the C#, and deliberately avoid D natural (which he hits twice in the descending portion).
Whenever a run is not using a sequence of 7 notes, it is not fair to name the scale until you have a complete picture. Whole tone notes share 5 notes with lydian dominant, so if that is all you hear in an example you have to either invent a new name for the “scale” or admit it is a partial use of either scale. The C natural vs C# would, in that case, answer the question of the parent scale, but we don’t have them. Because he descends (after the diminished 7th going up) and we do hear D and C, and later, D again, I personally lean in the direction of describing this thing as Lydian Dominant, skipping a couple notes to taste…plus, as I said earlier, he has done this before with Mclaughlin where Mclaughlin uses more the entire scale and Paco does this personalized step down using two fingers as you see, so there is a methodology.
But feel free to do whatever the heck you want, and think about it however you want.
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