There's a discussion on one of the jazz guitar forums using E natural on an Fm7 chord in cantalope island.
I had posted this clip.
At the beginning of my solo I play C F G Ab G E and sustain the E natural.
A guitarist on this forum posted that the E natural was a sour note.
I posted that it we considered melodic minor to be a sour note we'd have to go all the way back to 1933 harmony.
He replied, "Straight minor or m6 is one thing; that's an Fm7 in Cantaloupe."...
I replied that martino and pass and others have been using this sound over min7 chords for over 80 years. But it points out one of the shortcomings of online forums. Somewhere along the line, this guitarist was told that you can only play over the exact chord in the rhythm section and that anything else is wrong.
And he's not the only jazz forum member who posts things like that. I've heard from dozens of folks in the last couple months saying you can't superimpose chords that aren't being played by the rhythm section.
And one poster said on the same forum, (talking about my clip)
“If he leaned on the maj. 7th over an m7 chord for a few beats as he did over the vamp, don't think many would say it worked.”
Just curious who's teaching these methodologies?
And why do people who are student level players have such strong opinions that they feel the need to pontificate about what is right or wrong about someone's solo?
And why do people feel like it's ok to make negative comments about someone else's playing in a public forum?
This is one reason that I do not allow criticism or negative comments in my forum, https://www.facebook.com/groups/modernjazzguitar .
Too many times, i've seen student level players put down others - when it's actually the student who needs to do more work…