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 Topic: Help on B section of My Latin BrotherPosted: 11 Oct 2019 at 5:15pm |
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Could anyone help me with some ideas on how to approach improvising on the B section (below) to George Benson's "My Latin Brother"? Right now, all I can come up with is treating each of the first 7 measures as a ii V of a new tonal center. Is there a broader concept that can be used that wouldn't chop up the tonality as much? Thanks for any ideas.
Ab-9 Db13/G-11 C7b13/Bb-11 Eb7/Ab-9 Db13
E-7 A7 /Db-9 Gb13 /F-7 Bb7 /F-7 Bb7 |
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Posted: 11 Oct 2019 at 6:59pm |
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In the first bar, substitute the Db13 with a G13 (tritone substitution) and you might see some more interesting melodic ideas develop as you move from G dom melody to the G minor in the second bar.
I'll try to get some more later, I just got off work. I moved this to the musicians exchange.
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Posted: 11 Oct 2019 at 7:55pm |
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Substitute the Db13 in bar 4 with a G13, when you go to the next bar, a Em7 is more or less the same as a G6, so when you now go from the G13 to the G6 you are going from a very similar G dom harmony to G major.
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Posted: 11 Oct 2019 at 9:43pm |
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Thanks! Interesting ideas and will play with them.
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Posted: 11 Oct 2019 at 9:51pm |
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You can link the Gb13 in bar 6 to the following measure by making the Gb13 a C13. The C13 becomes the V7 of the following Fm7.
There are some more possibilities here, I'll be back tomorrow.
Edited by js - 11 Oct 2019 at 9:51pm |
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