Project Title:  “Mirage” –  Klezmer Mode   in “D”

                Now, for something completely different!  We have already improvised using “blues” scales, major scales, and even minor scales, but never (so far) in a “mode”.  You can “look up” what a mode is yourself for a more in depth explanation, but basically it is just another “type” of scale.  The title of the song is “Mirage”.  In this project we will use one of the least common and “strangest” sounding modes, the “Klezmer”.  Heck, even its name sounds weird.  Why you ask? I don’t know, I guess “for the fun of it”.  There is only one other song I know that uses this mode, and that is Count Basie’s “Caravan” (look it up). 

                I am trying to use four tonic quarter notes for “counting off” rather than “1, 2, ready, switch” to make things a little easier for editing.  Also, there is an “interlude” that occurs twice in “Mirage”.  This is the only place that the Klezmer mode may have (and only at times) notes that may not sound “good”.  The correction is easy though.  If you play a note that sounds like “it does not fit”, simply go forward or backward to the next note in the clock.  That quickly adjusted note will sound good.  Then, the next time the “interlude” occurs, if a note sounded bad before, DON’T PLAY IT!  Simple, right?   So let us harken back to the old “Aladdin” movie days, and “jam” to a tune that most likely will get stuck in your head, and drive you crazy thinking about where you have heard it before.  Get ready for something completely different; “Mirage”.