This creates some nice tension and resolution, and can also create a delayed resolution if the resolution chord is pushed later in the bar. You can actually add a dominant seventh chord a fifth above before any chord. You may substitute any chord for another chord as long as it has two of the same notes. You may add a #11 to any major or dominant chord. You may add the related ii-7 before any V7 and add the related V7 after any ii-7.Ģ. Here are some important rules for substitution:ġ. To quickly find scales for these common chords-Ĭ7 #11 Up a fifth melodic (G melodic minor)Ĭ7 b9 (or #9) Up a half step diminished (C# dim)Ĭ7 b9 b13, or C7 alt, or C7 #9 b13, or C7 b9 #9 b13 #11Ĭ-7(b5) Up a half step Maj (C# Maj) or up a minor 3rd melodic minor (Eb melodic minor) or down a whole step harmonic minor or up a 4th harmonic minor (F harmonic minor)Ĭ sus7 (b9) Down a whole step melodic minor (Bb melodic minor)Ĭ maj7 #5 Down a minor 3rd melodic minor or down a minor 3rd harmonic minor
Jazz Harmony for Improvisation- chord/scales Thesaurus of Scales and Melodic Patterns- Nicolas.Openers, Limiters and Pairs of Opposites.* If you are thinking about the audience when playing then you are not concentrating on the music enough.Be sure to make your rhythmic ideas drive your solo development rather than thinking of harmony as primary.Emotional range- the musician as the actor.Do you really need to memorize Jazz licks.The controlled freak out- outside/inside playing.Symmetrical Scales-Diminished, Whole-tone Symmetrical Major.By David Carlos Valdez Jazz Harmony for Improvisation- chord/scales To quickly find scales for these common chords- C7 11 Up a fifth melodic.