or how to play major 7ths on dominants without getting fired. There’s a point in Miles’ autobiography where he recounts arguing with Charlie Parker. Bird told him you can play any tone on any chord, Miles disagreed and was proven…
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You’ve Been Taught the Wrong Chord Tones
Hold it right there – if you’ve learned jazz within the past twenty years or so, it’s likely you’ve been taught the wrong chord tones on tonic chords. People tend to teach from the perspective of chord-scales. Which is fine.…
Tagged with: bebop scales, jazz, pentatonics, rootless voicings, stride, tonic chord
Posted in a) Soloing Scales & Modes, b) Harmony & Comping
Posted in a) Soloing Scales & Modes, b) Harmony & Comping
How to Handle a Sus Chord Part I – the Real McCoy
It’s a common problem among people learning how to improvise that they freeze when faced with a sus chord. I’ve often found that the reason people don’t know what to play over this chord type is that they don’t really…
Tagged with: fourths, jazz, McCoy Tyner, Passion Dance, Pentatonic scale, pentatonics, sus chords, Suspended chord, theory, transcription
Posted in a) Soloing Scales & Modes, b) Harmony & Comping, h) Transcriptions
Posted in a) Soloing Scales & Modes, b) Harmony & Comping, h) Transcriptions
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