Talk:Side-slipping

Merger to Outside (jazz)
There is no consensus to merge this article to Outside (jazz).BassHistory (talk) 01:51, 18 December 2010 (UTC)


 * No one has opposed it yet. Hyacinth (talk) 16:04, 18 December 2010 (UTC)


 * Oppose merger. You never followed the procedures outlined for merging a page.  How was anyone supposed to oppose it if you just went ahead and changed it?BassHistory (talk) 23:08, 18 December 2010 (UTC)

What side-slipping actually means
Side-slipping is when the soloist changes momentarily to a scale a half-step away from the previous scale. For example, if they were playing over a G7 vamp, they might go from G mixolydian, down to F# mixolydian, back up to G mixolydian. Three sources, (if you include the Liebman source, that isn't actually in the references of the article) define the term in this way. Coker's definition is a little more hazy.

Examples: Although Coker can be ambiguous, in The Jazz Idiom he explains "side-stepping" as: chromatic shifting up or down by half step.



"half-step higher or lower"

"a half step away"

"chromatic neighbor chord either above or below it"

"type of outside playing"

"chromatic neighbor scale"

BassHistory (talk) 23:50, 18 December 2010 (UTC)