Jazz Guitar 4 Beginners Notes on Improvisation TCC

Jazz Guitar 4 Beginners: Notes on Improvisation TCC~ GG Preparata

Recap: Fooling around with chords In the tonality of F/Dm Dm Progressions ~ ad libitum • • Bb Maj 7 (interm. /1 st fret) – Bm 7/ b 5 - C#7/b 9 – Dm 7 (interm. 2 nd form- see figure) – G 7/11 (see figure) – A 7/11 – Dm 7 One Note Samba (Jobim): [A]: Dm 7 -C#7 -C 7 sus 4 - Bm 7 b 5 (int. 2) – [B]: Fm 11 (int. 2)- Bb 7+5 (or 13) –Eb Maj 7 -Ab 6 Repat [A] and end with Bb 6 (or 13) G 7/11 Bm 7 b 5 Fm 11 9 th fret

The Ubiquity of the Minor Mode Find your degrees • Rule for the Major Diatonic Scale Count: “tone-tonesemitone (3)-tone-tonesemitone (7)” • T-T-St-T-T-T-s. T • 1 -2 -three-4 -5 -6 -seven • Back to our chords: • • • Arpeggios over MAJOR chords Bb. Maj 7 -Bm 7 b 5 -Dm (7)- G 9 (high shape): • So you can play minor arpeggios on the fifth of a dominant chord • ALSO: play Gm 11 and Cm 11: you may play a minor scale/arpeggio of the 5 th degree of Cm 7: i. e. , Gm 7 (aside from the root) • • Rule: 3 minors that preserve the sound of the major chord: Minor built on the third degree: Cmaj-Em 7; play arpeggios: same Minor bulit on the sixth degree: Cmaj-Am Minor built on the 7 th degree, which yields a C Lydian: Cmaj 7 Bm 7

The Ubiquity of the Minor Mode In fact, the DMS has 4 minor relative modes: • • • Dorian (2 nd) Phrygian (3 rd) Aeolian (6 th) Locrian (7 th) E. g. , Gmaj 7: G (R) ~ B (3) ~ E(6) ~ F# (7) Pat Martino on Improvisation & the Minor Mode at: https: //www. youtube. com/watch? v=r. Gb 3 sex. Ml. CE