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Lets go and compare improvisation to spoken...

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Hey. Not just compare. How can we steal from spoken language? There's a bunch of books about motif-development. But lets steal from what works 100% - the human tongue.

Lets go and compare improvisation to spoken language.

Also note that the top line of that bar is a descending line: | D9 Cmaj9 D7/B Am9 | E (9th of D), D (9th of C), C (7th of D7), B (9th of Am) That explains the extensions.

Analysis for this chord progression?

That's one explanation but it's hard to say without seeing the actual arrangement. Let's take a bar from the progression: | D9 Cmaj9 D7/B Am9 | If I saw that on a chart, I would pay it as a...

Analysis for this chord progression?

so in other words you mean that it uses these type of extensions cause of bass line? i hope i got you right

Analysis for this chord progression?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9c7rapnXZbE

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Because it's not cowboy music? Haha. Joking aside, the key here is the harmonic motion or voice motion within a chord. Yes you can just hit a basic voicing on every down beat or play that same...

Analysis for this chord progression?

It is from an opera, let me check if I can find it, i got the sibelius file. My point is that chords are not uncommon but it doesnt look like the most common chords, in other words I think it is...

Analysis for this chord progression?

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Nicely done John A. You mean to tell me you can be creative in music?!! :P

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Not sure if I follow your question. The ii V I progression is everywhere, in classical music, baroque music, pop music. Extensions are also everywhere in the form of melody or inner voices, it's just...

Analysis for this chord progression?

They still do, but we didn’t get them in our Philly suburban stores. Jersey is still the #5 producer of tomatoes in the US, but I don’t know about corn any more. As farming got tougher, a lot of...

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I am surprised how an opera chorus can have jazz feeling using exactly the same harmony without adaptation, just by changing the rhythm and the bass functions. But why so much extensions, if its a ii...

Analysis for this chord progression?

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