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Andy French's Musical Explorations

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Tag: Jazz

Harmonic function in minor keys – the tonic

In Jazz Theory, Music TheoryTags Harmonic Functions, Jazz, Melodic Minor, Minor Keys, Music Theory15th July 2019 Andy French

At long last I’m going to continue my exploration of minor keys. In the first post in this series I observed that attempting harmonic analysis of music written in minor …

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Diminished theory

In Guitar, Jazz Theory, Music TheoryTags Guitar Chords, Jazz, Music Theory22nd April 2019 Andy French

The diminished seventh chord (o7) is one of the most exotic and beautiful harmonies that equal temperament has to offer. This chord type has a completely symmetrical structure. It is …

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Creating jazzy blues progressions

In Jazz Theory, Music TheoryTags Blues, Jazz, Music Theory, Secondary Dominants10th March 2019 Andy French

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 …

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The problem with minor key harmony

In Jazz Theory, Melodic Minor, Music TheoryTags Jazz, Music Theory21st January 2019 Andy French

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 …

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Improvising over altered dominant chords

In Jazz Theory, Melodic MinorTags Jazz, Melodic Minor, Music Theory28th October 2018 Andy French

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, …

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Melodic Minor Modes – Summary

In Jazz Theory, Melodic Minor, Music Theory, UncategorisedTags Jazz, Melodic Minor, Music Theory2nd August 2018 Andy French

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 …

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