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This is an excellent exercise to help musicians develop bass lines for piano. It uses the Cycle of Fourths with comping and soloing. It’s not easy, but try it out!
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Learn this lesson after having a basic understanding of diminished scales and chords.[/features_box_yellow]
This is a way to construct licks (phrases) around the diminished scales and chords. See the video and PDF for demonstration.
[membership_download_item_pdf link=”http://jsfp.s3.amazonaws.com/AltDimSev.pdf” + target=”_self”]Altered Diminished Sevenths Licks[/membership_download_item_pdf]
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Learn this lesson after having a basic understanding of diminished scales and chords.[/features_box_yellow]
This is an interesting and easy way to learn and use the diminished scale and chords. If you are playing a diminished seventh . . . move your top two notes up a whole step. Start from that position, then move down to the original diminished seventh. See the video and PDF for a demonstration.
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[membership_download_item_pdf link=”http://jsfp.s3.amazonaws.com/ScalesDimColorC.pdf” + target=”_self”]Diminished Color Chord Exercise[/membership_download_item_pdf]
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Color Chords are a way of combining groups of dominant sevenths to create interesting harmonies.
Here are some ideas regarding Color Chords:
[membership_download_item_pdf link=”http://jsfp.s3.amazonaws.com/ScalesDimColorC.pdf” + target=”_self”]Diminished Color Chord Exercise[/membership_download_item_pdf]
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Before practicing the Seventh Melodic Chord Exercise . . . make sure that you have thoroughly mastered the Triad Melodic Chord Exercise.[/features_box_yellow]
This exercise is the same as the Melodic Triads Exercise – but, this time with Seventh Chords. You can also use this to harmonize melodies. This is a way of thinking of “melodies” as “harmonies”. I always think and hear the top note of a chord as the “melody” of that chord. Therefore, practice harmonizing a major scale with different types of Seventh Chords. Remember, each time you change the inversion of the chord, it puts a new melody note on top.
When you finish playing different Major Scales with different Seventh Chords and Inversions, then try to use Seventh Chord harmonies to harmonize simple melodies.
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[membership_download_item_pdf link=”http://jsfp.s3.amazonaws.com/MelChordsSevTBM.pdf” + target=”_self”]Seventh Melodic Chord Exercise w/Three Blind Mice[/membership_download_item_pdf]
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