A quick (but probably quite expansive) question here on bluesy jazz progressions. I've noticed that many times in a jazz blues progression chart the stardard 12 bar blues chords will be stated however the player often plays more than one chord on each stated chord... So for example in a blues in Ab it will go:
| Ab - - - | Db - - - | Ab - - - | Ab - - - |
But then in bar 5 when it is meant to be Db for 4 beats it may use two different chords over the Db but it's not stated on the chart:
| Db - (X chord) - |
It sounds great when players do this but leaves me feeling bewildered as to what chord they're actually playing to keep the progression moving. Does anyone know whats going on here? Would they use an inversion? Substitution maybe? Any help would be greatly appreciated.
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Also on that Ab in bar 4, you can do a 251 in the target chord for bar 5 (in other words in Db), so:
bar 4: Ebm9, Ab (alt)
bar 5: Db
bar 6: D dim
Supportact said: [my style is] probably more an accumulation of limitations and bad habits than a 'style'.
Supportact said: [my style is] probably more an accumulation of limitations and bad habits than a 'style'.
But theoretically, I have no idea what he's doing. Does anyone have any idea?
Supportact said: [my style is] probably more an accumulation of limitations and bad habits than a 'style'.
(There's probably something better out there but I'm cooking dinner and my brain is work-rotten.)
Actually used very widely (for example, the descending chord bit in Solo Flight by Charlie Christian) - alternating m7 (or rather M6) chords and diminished chords.
That’s the first 5 chords; I-ii-I, with passing chords in between.
Supportact said: [my style is] probably more an accumulation of limitations and bad habits than a 'style'.
Anyhoo this intro noodling he’s doing is just that. A nice gentle intro noodle. Try analysing the song from 0:28 and see what you come up with. Cheers
Supportact said: [my style is] probably more an accumulation of limitations and bad habits than a 'style'.
Supportact said: [my style is] probably more an accumulation of limitations and bad habits than a 'style'.
Gmaj6 - Abdim - Amin7 - Bbdim - G (1st inv.) - Cdim - Cmaj6 - F9 - G - D7 - A7 - G (1st inv.) - Cdim - A (1st inv.) - D7 - Gmaj6
(I) (ii7) (I) (IV) (bVII7)(I) (V7) (II7) (I) (II) (V7) (I)
Just wondering what the bVII7 is all about really? Any thoughts you have on this progression as a whole?
That F(alt) or whatever is quite unexpected but that’s ok.
Supportact said: [my style is] probably more an accumulation of limitations and bad habits than a 'style'.
https://youtu.be/cklYR21TcNE
Supportact said: [my style is] probably more an accumulation of limitations and bad habits than a 'style'.