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Chord Tone Soloing on Coltrane's Giant Steps: One of the concepts that my students and I were working on in improv class this week was Chord Tone Soloing as applied to various compositions including Giant Steps. Practice techniques and concepts included focusing on motives, soloing with chord tones while limiting the range to an octave and Chord Tone Connection in which we go up and down the entire range of the instrument and connect from chord to chord with stepwise motion.

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Here is a dampening master in the works!

Another study of upper partials based on the tune Minority. Write the chords in and then study the notes and see what they are.

Check out all the triads in the solo that don't relate to the main triad of the chord.

I.E. the chord is F7 and I play a D maj triad. Get it? It looks like a triad. but it's the 13th the b9 and the 5th of the chord.

Remember: One way to tell how experienced a jazz vibe play is is to listen to how far up the chords they go in the solos. How comfortable are they in making melodies out of the upper partials of the chords.

I wanted to mention this beautiful series by Kjell Samkopf.

Kjell sent me the books and the CDs. No strings attached. Which is great because I can rarely listen to CDs sent to me. For once I was actually bored and put on one of his CDs and really loved what I was listening to! Not tunes, not jazz but really great music. I was really impressed and thought I should pass this along to you guys. So check it out!

Chinese translation is for Chinese students
這邊講到如何在四個音的和弦上，只移動一個音，就可以換到下個和弦。
打開PDF，看到第一行，是最基本的2-5-1-6的和弦進行。
從Aminor7中，移動5音（G）到下一個和弦D7的三音(F#)。
然後第二小節Gmajor7的根音（G）移動到下個和弦E9的三音(G#)

依此類推，你可以看到下一行也是用這樣的方式，
只移動一個音到鄰近的音，但是整個和弦聲音都變了。

甚至是第三行，就算在同一個和弦上，我們也可以移動一個音，改變和聲配置，
讓你在Comping時，更多選擇可以使用。

Chinese translation for Chinese students

把我們上一堂課教的 I minor9 - ii minor9 - V dominant13b9，
這堂課要加上旋律。

旋律都是在最高音聲部，

例如G調：
Gminor9 (旋律是Gmajor音階)- Aminor9 -D13b9 - Gminor9 (旋律是五聲音階)

*把這些東西練好之後，可以再延伸練很多東西，你可以只把一小部分的和聲進行拿出來，做成練習曲練習。

*Tony 演奏：
57秒, G key
1分16秒, F key

Hi U of Del Students,

Tony has asked me to assign one of my etudes for you to work on. Here is a link to my etude on How Deep Is The Ocean:

http://www.vibesworkshop.com/audio/totm-how-deep-ocean-etude-no-1-behn-…

It doesn't have to be perfect, but work on it and try to get it close to tempo. This etude will help you with ideas for lines. You can listen to my version of it, as well as the other members who have posted it.