Erik Satie Scale - analysis and uses in Jazz improvisation

In this video I introduce a scale that I call the ’Satie Scale’ that Erik Satie used in his piano composition Gnossienne no 3. It is a 6 note minor scale with an exotic sound containing the sharpened 4 and natural 6 degrees. Later in the video I demonstrate the sound of this scale over a minor chord vamp when improvising. Thesaurus of Minor Triad pairs: 00:15 Life and Biog 1:45 Satie Scale 3:10 demonstration of sound over vamp. Éric Alfred Leslie Satie 17 May 1866 – 1 July 1925)was a French composer and pianist. Satie was a colourful figure in the early 20th-century Parisian avant-garde.
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