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Originally Posted by brwnhornet59
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12-22-2011 06:15 PM
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Robert Conti has a great book called The Formula! which is the best I've seen for explaining all the reharmonizations. Great point about using these ideas for soloing too.
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Here's a lesson page from Ted Greene that is very helpful for exploring different possibilities for harmonizing a given melody:
http://www.tedgreene.com/images/less...1981-10-24.pdf
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It's all about the melody though, you can't just throw substitutions out there without being aware of the melody.
In a tune like Bacharach's "This Guy", where the first two bars have the static melody note A over the F chord (first bar) followed by the same melody note A over Bb maj 7 (where the A becomes the seventh on the Bb maj 7th), you can approach the IV chord (the Bb chord) with a B min7 b5, a B7 #11, or a two five combo like; F# min7 b5 / B7#11, or even Cmin6/B7#11.
In all the above combinations, the chords retain the melody note A. That's the key.
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Check out Jake Reichbart's two videos posted in the "theory" category about the V of the V.
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