The Art of Improvising: The Be-Bop Language and the Dominant Seventh Chords

Abstract

The aim of this article lies fundamentally in illustrating the first part of a simple and intuitive method, finalized to “speaking” the Be-Bop language immediately, without possessing any jazz background whatsoever. The main peculiarity of the method consists in the fact that the attention of the improviser is always focused on Triads. We herein exclusively discuss the improvisation techniques regarding the dominant seventh chords. Starting from a specific extended “sentence”, built around the Major Triad, we show how to instantly deduce further sentences, how to modify them, by cutting and adding “words”, and how to effectively combine them.

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