(MAJA Entry Point: PB)
The basic idea of these examples is to demonstrate the capabilities of MAJA using a simple and well-known chord progression. In this case, the chord progression is the three chords to "Purple Haze" by Jimi Hendrix. These chords are:
Em11 - G - A
But this chord progression can be "adapted" to other genres of music by substituting other functionally equivalent chords in place of these. If this is done for the Jazz/Blues and New Age genres, then we could actually have three variations of the same functional chord progression.
| Example #1 (Rock): | Em11 - G - A |
| Example #2 (Jazz/Blues): | Em7/E7#9 - Gmaj6 - A13/A7#9/A7b5 |
| Example #3 (New Age): | Em7/Em11 - Gadd9 - Asus2/Aadd9 |
Listen To Real Examples Using MAJA:
Play Example #1 (Rock)!
Play Example #2 (Jazz/Blues)!
Play Example #3 (New Age)!
One objective of these examples is to demonstrate how MAJA can be used to extend the original "Purple Haze" chords (the Example #1 chords) to generate these "other" chords (the Example #2 and Example #3 chords) - their names and how to play them (i.e., fingerings). A second objective is to show how MAJA can be used to generate improvisational options for all of these chords - in these examples a set of related scales that can be used to improvise tastefully in each genre/example.
All three of these examples begin in the Progression Builder (PB) module. For simplicity, it is assumed in this example that the MAJA user is a novice guitar player (using a 6-string guitar, conventional tuning). The steps of the example in high-level overview are:
Examples In Detail With Screenshots:
Example #1 (Rock)
Example #2 (Jazz/Blues)
Example #3 (New Age)
