Originally Posted by: equatorThe answer is in RELATIVE SCALES.

If you play the RELATIVE minor to the major, it will sound like a pile of feces because you will be stressing notes like the I and the V in that scale. The I and V in that scale are the VI and III in the relative major, respectively. The I and V in the major scale (notes you'll really want to stress) are the III and VII of the relative minor (notes you won't be stressing as much). If you DO stress the correct notes, however, you'll merely be playing the MAJOR scale. In other words, the only way to not sound like crap when you play the relative minor, is to play the original major, and I don't think he wants to have to think about all this when he plays.

Play the blues scale, perhaps with a #6 thrown in to combine it with the dorian. I put a #7 in there occasionally, and that sounds pretty cool in a chromatic descension. Whatever you do, DON'T play the relative minor.