Blue Monk Simplified Melody Bass Line

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Blue Monk Simplified Melody Bass Line



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Diatonic Modal Planing

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Excerpted from Functional Jazz Guitar, by Ed Byrne:

CHAPTER 6

DIATONIC MODAL PLANING

Planing is a technique in which a vertical structure is moved up or down in step-wise fashion. Extremely useful in moments of harmonic stasis (absence of movement, such as vamps and modal playing) is Diatonic Planing, in which we plane in similar motion while retaining the notes of a given diatonic scale or mode.

In long modal vamps or vamps involving sustained dominant or minor chords, one can create the sense of movement through planing even when the chords do not progress. Two of the most useful forms of diatonic planing in jazz involve either first inversion triads or three-note voicings in fourths.

Here below is an example of all of the modes planed in 3-note quartal voicings for guitar.

Click below for sound.



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Easy Tips That Just Might Save Your Gig

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Excerpted from my comprehensive 275-page book, Speaking of Jazz: Essays and Attitudes:



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Reading Lead Sheets

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Excerpted from my comprehensive 275-page book, Speaking of Jazz: Essays and Attitudes:



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Chord Scale Theory

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Excerpted from my comprehensive 275-page book, Speaking of Jazz: Essays and Attitudes:



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Basic LJI Triads & 7th Chords

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Excerpted from Linear Jazz Improvisation Books 2 & 3:



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Starting Jam Sessions

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Excerpted from my comprehensive 275-page book, Speaking of Jazz: Essays and Attitudes:



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Internalizing Tunes

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Excerpted from my comprehensive 275-page book, Speaking of Jazz: Essays and Attitudes:



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Easy Method for Deriving Scales

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Excerpted from my comprehensive 275-page book, Speaking of Jazz: Essays and Attitudes:



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LJI 16th-Note Lines

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Excerpted from Linear Jazz Improvisation Book I:



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Practicing Swing Feel

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Excerpted from my comprehensive 275-page book, Speaking of Jazz: Essays and Attitudes:



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Practicing Time-Placement

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Excerpted from my comprehensive 275-page book, Speaking of Jazz: Essays and Attitudes:



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Practicing Climaxes

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Excerpted from my comprehensive 275-page book, Speaking of Jazz: Essays and Attitudes:



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Ten-Tune Starter Repertoire

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Excerpted from my comprehensive 275-page book, Speaking of Jazz: Essays and Attitudes:



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Song Forms

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Excerpted from my comprehensive 275-page book, Speaking of Jazz: Essays and Attitudes:



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Linear Jazz Improvisation

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How to Learn to Improvise on a Tune

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Primary Activities of the Jazz Artist

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This essay is excerpted from my new book, Speaking of Jazz: Essays and Attitudes.



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