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Wil Myers

Blue Monk - Percy Heath

Pickup - Pentatonic up to Blue Note


M. 1 & 3 repeated motive
M. 5 beat 3 Chromatic upper neighbor
M. 7 added two beats to the Edim7
M. 8 use of major 7th
M. 10. C Dorian, Bb starting on C
M. 11-12 Descending Bb blues starting on D descending on beats.
M. 13 Chromatic up to D
M. 14-15 Beat 2 Bb scale starting on F descending in thirds.
M. 15 & of 3 Bracket around E natural
M. 18 Beat 2 chromatic into the original theme
M. 19 beat 2, Edim arp. into scale
M. 21 Blues scale
M. 22-23 Descending blues, like M.11
M. 24 Pentatonic & b7
M. 25 beat 3 anticipation of Bb and Chromatic down to root.

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