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Originally Posted by klasaine
And that's a very salient point. The terms borrowing and interchange are really more for finding melody notes (soloing?). And definitely in the case of interchange (via Berklee) - burning over that G chord in A major. If you know the chord comes from an A minor mode you can rip a nice in A minor line/lick over it.
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But what if we really got it from A mixolydian? Or A Dorian? In fact, isn't A mixolydian really a better choice? Or since it is not diatonic, just think G scale; pentatonic if you're not sure about the details. I'll make a gratuitous swipe at Larry here: do you have to associate the G chord with some major scale?
Lashing out at my brothers is all well and good for its own sake, but my point is that here is where a chord scale approach can be helpful. This is a fairly tame example since bVII is so common, but anytime you get a non-diatonic chord, like the intro to The Nightlife (in C: CM7 EbM7 AbM7 G7), just thinking chord generates scale can be helpful.