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Substitute and Embellishing Chords
Substitute and Embellishing Chords
For instance: Coltrane composed IMPRESSIONS with IIm7 along all the piece,
improvisinig in dorian mode. If you think that it is very poor and enrich your
perfomance filling all bars with substitutes... you are killing Coltrane’s work.
Remember the only rule: Good taste and no abuse.
EXAMPLES:
Here we used only notes 3 and 7 as elements of tritone, but we may play
complete chords.
Other substitutes:
F7 G7
G7 F7
Ab7 G7
G7 Ab7
F#7 G7
G7 F#7
G7 F7 G7
G7 Ab7 G7
G7 F#7 G7
EXAMPLE:
In bar 26 of TANGERINE by Peterson:
G13 is an embellishment chord of F#13
C9 is an embellishment chord of B13.
7
EXAMPLE:
In bars 7 and 8 of SUNRISE SERENADE by Frankie Carle:
Db7 is embellishment chord of C7
Gb7 is embellishment chord of F7
B7 is embellishment chord of Bb7.