In the last video we looked at four ways to get to a place. Now we look at, for any particular place, four ways to get out of it. For example, if you are in C (major or minor), you can make that into a C7 to then prepare to go somewhere. You have (in this traffic circle model) four directions: F, Ab, B, or D. These could be major or minor key centers. So in the exercise I just go to a key center, make it dominant, and go somewhere else. For example,C, C7, Fmi, F7, E, E7, F#, F#7, G#mi, G#7, Bb, Bb7, A, A7, Dmi, D7, Bbmi, Bb7, CThis could go on and on.
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Symmetry 04: Alterations of the dominant and the traffic circle concept
Moving back to application, I explain here how the four dominants that we made from the diminished create four "altered dominant" sounds. Specifically:Bb7 -> C = G7b9#9 -> CDb7 -> C = G7b9#11 -> CE7 -> C = G13b9 -> Cand of courseG7 -> C = G7 -> CSo, instead of thinking of four varieties of altered "G7" chords, we are thinking of approaching the destination from four different angles. Could be North, South, East and West, or something like that. Could also think where the roots are - approaching from the 5th (normal), from the b7th (backdoor), from the tritone (tritone sub), or from the major 3rd above (13b9).Soon we will expand these four dominants in a whole world of symmetry
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Symmetry 03: Diminished into Dominant 7th Morphing exercise
Back to warmup exercises, here's one looking at the diminished 7th morphing into the four dominant 7th chords that are related to it.
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Symmetry 02: Diminished Resolutions in Context
Here's a video to address a member question of application of the stuff from the previous post, using examples on a minor blues and "All the Things You Are."
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Symmetry 01: Diminished / Leading Tone Resolutions
This will be a series of videos on a single topic that I find extremely useful, which is the use of diminished structures. We start out with thinking about the places where one diminished 7th structure could go, and then turning that into an exercise.
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