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Blues Improvisation
Jazz BluesThe jazz blues takes on a variation from the standard blues. In bar 2 a C7 is introduced. This C7 is also common to the "regular" 12 bar blues, so it's found in both forms. The real change in a jazz blues is found in bars 9 and 10. Am7 ...
Pentatonic modal usage (7)
Here are some classroom notes from when I studied at U.M. that complement the pentatonic lessons.Aquí hay unos apuntes míos de cuando estudié en la Univ. de Miami. Pertenecen a las lecciones sobre las escalas pentatónicas....
Pentatonic modal usage (6)
Chord tones: 1, b3, b7 Extensions: 11, b13 Chord: minor 7th and half-diminished (m7b5) Sound: Aeolian, Phrygian, locrian. (Since there is no 9th to determine the exact minor mode to which this scale belongs, it will fit both Aeolian and Ph...
Pentatonic modal usage (5)
Chord tones: 1, 5 Extensions: 9, 11, 13 Chord: sus4, 7sus4 Sound: a major chord where the 3rd has been substituted for the 4th. Sus4 chords.Un acorde mayor donde la 3ª ha sido sustituida por la 4ª. Chord tones: b7 (Note the e...
Pentatonic modal usage (4)
Now that we have seen the process of super-imposing the major pentatonic scale over a static bass note and have analyzed the resulting tones and chords with which it can be used, we will continue with this procedure but in a more systematic way. ...
Pentatonic modal usage (3)
Remember I said we would move up by half step the major pent. scale and the fundamental bass tone would remain the same? Let’s do that, C major pentatonic is moved up a half step to Db major pentatonic: ¿Te acuerdas que dije que la escala...
Pentatonic modal usage (2)
A continuación analizaremos el resultado de poner una escala pentatónica mayor sobre una nota estática que hará la función de una tónica. La relación que esto produce es: Pentatónica mayor/Tónica estática (fundamental). Maj. Pen...
Pentatonic modal usage (1)
When the word “pentatonic” is used it usually brings to mind rock or blues. The pentatonic scale has a lot of usage in the jazz idiom. Many people use the minor pentatonic scale not realizing that there is a major pentatonic scale that has mu...
