Played and recorded in Cubase with the Marimba instrument patch in Kontakt's factory library for Kontakt 5 VST. 

#1 - A Lydian b7 - Stravinsky-ish :)
#2 - C Locrian - Some notions of the Toreador Song of Bizet's Carmen in the first half. The second half sounded like a chaos of sound, but its melody was REALLY in Locrian mode. :)
#3 - F7 Altered - Going jazzy now
#4 - D Dorian - Used the Dorian scale in a new tune composed by myself. I also found that the D Dorian scale could also work very well with the F#7 chord, a major third above the root of the scale :)
#5 - B Lydian - with a movie trailer-ish ending :)
#6 - Eb Aeolian - become Bach-ish towards the ending :) with a Picardi third at the end of the piece.

Assignment work for the Jazz course on coursera.org - scales

It was fun experience playing along with the track. Most of the scales used were the same with what I had marked on the chart, but they were used in a much flexible way. There were wonderful moments when a note in a scale that was in common with the one in the next scale sustains from its measure to the next one with a different chord/scale. Played and recorded in Cubase with the Accordion instrument patch in Bela D Media Anthology Celtic Wind library for Kontakt VST.

Assignment work for the Jazz course on coursera.org - playing along with a Chick Corea track

My works for assignments up till this one were strictly following the scale choices and mainly based on the way of thinking of choosing the right scales for each individual measures. Now that Mr. Professor had introduced the common scale approach and chromatic playing, so for this assignment I went with that instead of strict selections of scales for each individual measures.

Played and recorded in Cubase with the flute instrument patch in Orange Tree Samples Passion Flute library for Kontakt VST.

Assignment work for the Jazz course on coursera.org - playing along with 'Memories of Tomorrow'

First chrous the theme, second chrous variation, third chrous another variation which went further and with more instruments. Recorded and arranged in Cubase with Kontakt 5 VST.

Assignment work for the Jazz course on coursera.org - Olho de Gato

Theme and 4 variations. Recorded in Cubase with the Vintage Organ Library for Kontakt 5 VST.

Assignment work for the Jazz course on coursera.org - The Blues

Mixed a piece of sound with a famous Chinese song ...

Thanks for the 'spitting' sound source on freesound.org:

freesound.org/people/ErikH2000/sounds/232211/.

rcswex