The basic blues format In general the blues is a combination of minor pentatonic melody played over a harmonic progression emphasising the tonic, sub-dominant and dominant chords. It’s also common …
Category: Music Theory
The problem Something I have observed with jazz harmony is that the rules that apply to major keys are comparatively straightforward when compared with those of minor keys. Previous posts …
Introduction This is a quick recap about how to approach improvisation over altered dominant chords. Altered dominant chords will be dominant chords with one of the following tensions: b9, #9, b5, …
This post is a summary of the previous posts regarding the modes of the Melodic Minor scale (see Index to other posts at the end). I am trying to break …
Introduction This post contains a harmonic analysis of the jazz standard, Days of Wind and Roses. Beware though – this is a learning exercise for me so I can’t guarantee …
Continuing my look at Melodic Minor modes this post covers mode 7, the Altered Scale. This mode is also known as the Super Locrian scale or the Locrian b4 scale. Scale formula …