Originally Posted by: JoeNoviceYes... Jolly this is what I've been saying all along. This fits perfectly with the original post.

If you re-read the first few post you may see why I felt the need to express the connection or sameness of Amin and Cmaj scales. People seemed to have the idea that playing C major patterns over a progression of Amin, F, G would be using a different scale/key.

IT'S THE SAME DAMN THING! The chords provide the context that produces the tonal quality of the scale. You can improvise with C major all night long over Aminor chord progressions and WORKS FINE!

When played by themselves C6 and Amin7/C are the SAME.

When played over specific chord progressions, C major and A minor scales produce the SAME sounds.

Ok, I think this is the crux of the problem, I think people won't adapt their phrasing to a Cmajor backing and will continue to phrase licks as they normally would in Am, thus making their lead sound shaky. THAT's why I have a problem with calling them the same thing.