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See if you can grasp this. It's a simple way to work on progressions. 

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This video I introduced a new concept - approach note.

First, we practice the third sequence, then we add a chromatic approach note below the target note.

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🚨 Play a Great Blues in 3 Months – Week 14

We’ve covered a lot over the course of this series:

• Guide tones
• Blues comping
• Chromaticism
• Whole tone and diminished language
• Chord melody textures
• Harmonic movement underneath simple melodies

For our final lesson, we bring many of those ideas together using:

👉 “The Intimacy of the Blues”

This arrangement continues the idea of using a relatively simple melody as a framework for richer harmonic movement underneath.

This week introduces:

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Cool Turnaround! by Behn Gillece

Tune Study - I Hear A Rhapsody Pt. 1 by Behn Gillece

🎵 Harmony Without Chords – Pt. 5

Resolving ii–V’s in Descending Whole Steps

In Part 5, we take the ii–V ideas from the previous lessons and fully resolve each ii–V to its I chord, moving through the exercise in descending whole steps. This type of harmonic motion shows up frequently in jazz standards—How High The Moon being a great example—and it’s an important sound to internalize.

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