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In standard jazz harmony, tritone substitution works because the two chords share two pitches that themselves are a tritone apart: namely, the third and the seventh of the chord, albeit reversed. [8] In a G 7 chord, the third is B and the seventh is F; in its tritone substitution, D ♭ 7, the third is F and the seventh is C ♭ (enharmonically ...
Jazz harmony is the theory and practice of how chords are used in jazz music. Jazz bears certain similarities to other practices in the tradition of Western harmony, such as many chord progressions, and the incorporation of the major and minor scales as a basis for chordal construction. In jazz, chords are often arranged vertically in major or ...
The tritone substitution, an harmonic device common in jazz chord progressions where a dominant V chord is substituted with a bII7 chord (or a secondary dominant II7 chord with a bVI7 chord, etc.), whose common justification is the enharmonicity of the tritones of both chords (G7 has a B-F tritone whereas D♭7 has an enharmonic Cb-F tritone ...
Example 1: Below, a common voicing used by jazz pianists is given for the chord C 7 ♯ 9 (C major chord with a minor 7th, and extended with an augmented 9th). In the lower stave the notes E ♮ and B ♭ are given. These form a tritone which defines the dominant sound, and are the major 3rd and minor 7th of the C 7 ♯ 9 chord.
Coltrane - A Player's Guide to His Harmony. New Albany, Indiana: Jamey Aebersold. Yamaguchi, Masaya (2003). John Coltrane Plays Coltrane Changes. Milwaukee: Hal Leonard Corp. ISBN 0-634-03864-8. Yamaguchi, Masaya (2002). "A Creative Approach to Multi-Tonic Changes: Beyond Coltrane's Harmonic Formula", Annual Review of Jazz Studies 12. ISBN 0 ...
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Play ⓘ. Conventional progression or cadence without tritone substitution, i.e., NOT Tadd Dameron turnaround. Play ⓘ. In jazz, the Tadd Dameron turnaround, named for Tadd Dameron, "is a very common turnaround in the jazz idiom", [1] derived from a typical I−vi−ii−V turnaround through the application of tritone substitution of all but the first chord, thus yielding, in C major:
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