Messiaen Around with Mode 3 (Super Augmented)
If the number of online videos and articles on the subject is any indication, Mode 3 of celebrated French composer Olivier Messiaen's series of "Modes of Limited Transposition" seems to have seen a recent surge in popularity among improvisers.
A while back, I posted an article detailing my personal discovery of this nine-tone scale by stringing together a trio of 013 trichords, a Major 3rd apart. I had no idea what it was called - nor of Messiaen's modes, for that matter.
Since it was also apparent that it consisted of a pair of overlapping Augmented scales - glued together by a common Augmented triad - I wound up calling it "Super Augmented".
A while back, I posted an article detailing my personal discovery of this nine-tone scale by stringing together a trio of 013 trichords, a Major 3rd apart. I had no idea what it was called - nor of Messiaen's modes, for that matter.
Since it was also apparent that it consisted of a pair of overlapping Augmented scales - glued together by a common Augmented triad - I wound up calling it "Super Augmented".
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