play minor on EVERY chord

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Chapters
0:00 Intro
1:11 Chord Qualities
1:56 Minor Vocabulary
3:07 Transposing
3:56 Minor on Dominant (II-V)
6:49 Muh Key Centre!!!!
8:07 Minor on Ø
9:40 Minor on 7Alt
12:02 Minor on Major
13:50 Conclusion
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[@JazzGuitarScrapbook]

Apologies about the slightly glitchy video. It is in fact my camera doing weird stuff - you do not need to contact a medical professional.

[@mbatampangumadimbadien8260]

Greetings from France , very great and useful lesson,this is what students need to progress ... A simple and clear way to make jazz improvisation easy understandable and drinkable...Sorry for my english!Have a good day...

[@JazzGuitarScrapbook]

Thanks!

[@music_magus]

Nice one 'Charlie' Christian Miller. I fell in love with Martino (and by extension the minor conversion approach) when I was just getting into jazz guitar. I'm not sure I'd say 'I wish I'd never studied it', but if I had my time all over again I'd definitely spend a lot more time on other things before dipping my toes in that deep body of water. I think it messed me up (in some cases physically: tendonitis) at time when I should been working on more foundational aspects of music and the guitar. RIP Big Pat. 🤘

[@brucesstreet8204]

Yes - anything to excape the diatonic trap. Very interesting.

[@cat3rpill3r]

Love the boom!

[@frankvaleron]

Thank you sir. You make wonderful videos

[@ccat9354]

Rewatched and grabbed the Kofi file. This captures something that seems to get missed with a lot of the consumers of the Linear Expressions DVD/booklet (self included). Pat's taking his minor language and doing the various transpositions and conversions, and they sound so damn good. Minor or no modifications and they work so well in all the other contexts...
But that's a far sight from declaring every major ii V in sight "ii dorian" and every minor ii V ii "locrian #2" and claiming to understand Pat's minor conversion... I was definitely that bum for too long. 😅Your resources are awesome, thanks for making the various PDFs/PPTs available!

[@JazzGuitarScrapbook]

Thanks! Yes that sort of thing is to me missing the point. The point is not harmony, the point is lines and language! But so often discussions of improvisation in jazz become discussions purely about harmony, which is important, but only one part of what we do.

[@patrickcaron5929]

Hi Christian . I discovered your channel and it's a Gold mine . Thanks a lot for all you make

[@JazzGuitarScrapbook]

Thanks Patrick!

[@nilkilnilkil]

More musical room setup ... Good !!!

[@JazzGuitarScrapbook]

I’ll get some Marshall stacks back in there…

[@rickjensen2717]

Great stuff 👍! I think Pat Azzara (Martino) used to call this 'minorising' chords.

[@MrDaneBrammage]

Cool idea!
Experimenting with the 'minor on dominant' example, it seems to work equally well with any transposition that ends the lick on a chord tone. Your lick in Fm over Bb7 ends with walking down to the 3rd of Bb7, which sounds great, but equally so does playing it in Abm and ending on the 5, or Dbm ending on the root, etc.
Sometimes it feels like we can get away with anything as long as it ends on a chord tone.

[@MarcoRaaphorst]

Those minor licks seems to be a movement to either the 3rd in dominants 7th chords or runs to the flat 7 of that chord in a kinda altered way. Nice. Thanks!

[@alexwirtz9497]

Great video! Django was already doing a simplified version of a couple of these (vim or iiim over I, v6m over V7) by the late 30s. No question, though, that the boppers took it to a different level.

[@JazzGuitarScrapbook]

For sure! Actually I could have swapped the Django examples for CC, he does all the same tricks with the m6. Also Lester Young. Probably goes back earlier.

[@gmitter-sl3qq]

Hi! Thanks for the useful lesson! I guess in the section on the half dim, where you talk about the minor one step down the dominant, over the Eb7 in Charlie Christian's solo you probably mean Db min, not D min? Db min maj7 would give the 13 b9 sus sound over Eb7 I think.

[@JazzGuitarScrapbook]

Yes that would make more sense lol

[@DEA_Informant]

Was that Charlie Christian bit from his solo on Rose Room?

[@JazzGuitarScrapbook]

Yes

[@mattwallis1893]

Wes did this too

[@JazzGuitarScrapbook]

YES

[@wrtoomes600]

Can you play a dom 7 over a minor 7?

[@MarcoRaaphorst]

You can. Like you can play any note over any chord. But Playing dom 7 over minor needs resolvement to flat 3rd imo

[@JazzGuitarScrapbook]

Absolutely. G7 on Dm for instance