Major & Minor 2-5-1 Lines (Autumn Funk)

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Link to Backing Track

There is another backing track available for download (reggae style) that plays the first eight bars over and over. File name: Backing Track Autumn Reggae

Solo over "reggae beat". 

Hi!

This is an improvised solo over a chord progression similar to the first eight bars of the jazz standard Autumn Leaves. I hope you like it.

The key of the solo is B flat major/G minor

As usual, you can find the right hand notation in the guitar pro files, png and pdf file.

p = thumb
i = index
m = middle
a = ring
c = pinky/little finger

The Chord Progression

The picture down below is available for download. File name: Chord progression.jpg

Below is a diagram of the harmonized Bb major scale.
The chords are Bbmaj7, Cm7, Dm7, Ebmaj7, F7, Gm7 and Am7(b5).

• Bbmaj7 is the one chord (Imaj7)
• Cm7 is the two chord (IIm7)
• Ebmaj7 is the four chord (IVmaj7)
• F7 is the five chord (V7).
• Three of these chords can be found in the first three bars, so that is why the key of the first three bars is Bb major.

The chord in the fourth measure - Eb7 - is a bit special. This chord is the "four chord - IV", but is played as a dominant seventh chord.
The fourth chord in the Bb major scale is Ebmaj7. But for this specific chord progression, we're playing an Eb7 chord, instead of Ebmaj7. This chord can be derived from the Ab major scale but also the Bb melodic minor scale.

In measure five we find an Am7(b5) chord. This is the seventh chord (VIIm7b5) from the Bb major scale. It is perfectly valid to play the Bb major scale over that chord. However, it is more appropriate to analyze the Am7(b5) chord as a two-chord (IIm7(b5) which can be derived from the key of G minor. This will be understandable when we analyze the G minor scale below.

The chord in the seventh and eighth bars - Gm6 - can be replaced by Gm7 which is the sixth chord (VIm7) from the Bb major scale.

Bb flat major scale (harmonized) - root on A string

You can download the image for easier reading/viewing.
File name: Bb major scale harmonized.jpg

Below is a diagram of the harmonized G harmonic minor scale.
The chords are Gm(maj7), Am7(b5), Bbmaj7(#5), Cm7, D7, Ebmaj7 and F#dim7.

• Am7(b5) is the two chord (IIm7(b5))
• D7 is the five chord (V7)
• Gm(maj7) is the one chord (Im(maj7)).

As you can see above, Am7(b5) and D7 are in the chord progression in bars five and six.

Gm6, in bars seven and eight, can be derived from the G melodic minor scale or the G dorian scale. It is very common to play either Gm6 or Gm7 in bars seven and eight.

It is quite common to play the G harmonic minor scale for Am7(b5) and D7

For Gm6, you can either play the G melodic minor scale or the G dorian.
For Gm7, the most common option is to play G dorian, although G aeolian (natural minor scale) is also an option.

G harmonic minor scale (harmonized) - root on E string

You can download the image for easier reading/viewing.
File name: G harmonic minor scale harmonized.jpg

Additional Lessons

In order to understand everything - in the analysis below - I recommend that you watch and read the following lessons:

BASIC Music Theory - How To FIGURE Out Intervals of Chords on Guitar

• Altered Scale

In jazz, the altered scale (altered dominant scale) is a seven-note scale that is a dominant scale where all non-essential tones have been altered. This means that it comprises the three irreducibly essential tones that define a dominant seventh chord, which are root, major third, and minor seventh and that all other tones have been altered. These are:

the fifth is altered to a ♭5 and a ♯5
the ninth is altered to a ♭9 and a ♯9
the eleventh is altered to a ♯11 (equivalent to a ♭5)
the thirteenth is altered to a ♭13 (equivalent to a ♯5)

Source (wikipedia): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Altered_scale

• Chord Tones

Here's a few lessons regarding chord tones.

Blues Lesson - SPICE UP Of The PENTATONIC scale with CHORD TONES

How To Mix Chord Tones & Scales

Simple" Trick How To Outline The Chord Progression

• Chromatic scale

I have a lesson about chromaticism. Click the link down below

Chromaticism (Introduction)

The chromatic scale or twelve-tone scale is a musical scale with twelve pitches, each a semitone, also known as a half-step, above or below its adjacent pitches. As a result, in 12-tone equal temperament (the most common tuning in Western music), the chromatic scale covers all 12 of the available pitches. Thus, there is only one chromatic scale.

• Diminished 7th chords

Diminished 7 chords - How, Why & When Can You Play Them? (Easy Trick)

In this tutorial I talk about how, why and when you can play diminished 7 chords. I also show you a simple trick on how to play diminished 7 chords.

• Enclosures/Chromaticism

In this étude I use something called enclosures.  
Check out the posts down below where I talk and write about enclosures.

60 second instagram lessons

Lesson Xj - Enclosures

Lesson Xk - "The Barry Harris Method"

Written lesson about enclosures (half step below/half step above)

Please let me know if you have any questions regarding this analysis.

If there's anything you don't understand or just something you'd like me to clarify, feel free to comment below or send me a private message here on the Patreon page.

I'm happy to help!

The analysis is available for download. File name: Analysis.pdf