Melody: Outside

• Start a phrase inside, go outside in the middle and end the phrase inside again.
• Try moving up or down a halfstep.
• Try moving up or down a tritone.
• Use chromatics.
• Play interval sequences.
• Play scales (e.g. pentatonics) that don’t fit the chord.
• Play the same mode but from another root.
• Play through interval cycles (e.g. Minor third).
• Play random chord progressions not related to the original chord.
• Transpose a motive randomly into different keys.
• Negative scales, Negatives of all the structures.
• Play exact sequences, shift motive exactly by certain intervals.