From our free, Jazz Guitar Lessons Daily Series: Lesson 51
Mondays - Triad Mastery Bootcamp
3/22/21
Today’s minor ii V i modern jazz riff is a fun one. It’s brought to you by a minor triad, a super hip quadratonic (minor triad + tension 2), and the always-enjoyable leading tones.
Here’s how this goes.
For a minor ii V i in the key of D minor, we’re superimposing the G minor triad over top of the EØ7. G, Bb, and D give us the b3, b5, and b7 of the EØ7 chord. When we add tension 2, that’s an A note… as A is the 2 of G minor. The A, while it will be interpreted by the ear melodically as the 2 of our G minor quadratonic, will be bringing in the 11th of the E chord. So we have some cool chord tones at work here. We can take this one step farther into bebop and modern jazz vocabulary world by inserting chromaticism and leading tones. We’re going to focus on the leading tones first before changing directions and switching to a short chromatic line near the end of the riff.
As we ascend the G minor + tension 2 quadratonic, we’re going to leap from the G note, over the A note, up to Bb. When we descend back to our skipped A note, let’s leap over it to its leading tone, G#, before hitting it. This will give us a cool sounding enclosure with lots of direction changes in our line so far. G up to Bb down to G# up to A. What’s cool about this is that if we play this with 8th note, we’re playing a G# note on beat 2, but if you keep the line moving and flowing up through this G minor triad + tension 2, you won’t even notice that you just played the major 3rd on a strong beat over a half diminished chord. Once we get to the A note, we leap up over Bb to the next triad note… D. This D note now becomes the start point for our next sequence. So from D we skip over a note, we leap back to the skipped note but hit the leading tone first, the resolve the leading tone up to our enclosed target note, then we leap up over another quadrtonic note and the pattern repeats. We will follow this pattern all the way up from the low 3rd fret, 6th string G note up to the 10th fret, 1st string D note.
(G - Bb - G# - A) - (D - A - F# - G) - (Bb - G - C# - D) - (A - D…At this point we have a problem. If we continue to follow the rules, the next target note that we would enclose we be Bb. And the...
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21 мар 2021
