Chords for Melodic Improvisation with famed Yellowjackets keyboardists and MI instructor Russell Ferrante.

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_ _ So let's go to the key of C [Cm] major.
C major 7. _ _ _
And I'm going to hit 4 to play all the other notes.
And I'm going to start either, I like the way it sounds if I start on the B.
This.
[Bb] _ _ [Cm] _ _
_ _ _ _ [A] _ _ _ _
_ [C] _ _ _ [G] _ _ [C] _ _
_ _ [E] _ _ _ _ _ _
[G] _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ [Gm] _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ I'm phrasing the way it resolves.
You start in the B.
_ _ _ [Cm] _ _ [Eb] _
_ [C] _ _ _ [A] _ _ [G] _ _
_ _ _ _ [E] And then the 9.
Really nice sort of [G] satisfying resolution.
_ Let me see you do that.
_ _ [Eb] _ First do it in [A] C and then I'm going to ask you [Eb] to transcribe it.
_ [G] So play me the C major scale [E] without the 4th.
[G] Yeah.
Start in the _ _ _ _ _ root. _
_ [Cm] _ _ _ _ [G] _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ [E] _ _
_ [Cm] _ Yeah.
And let's [G] see.
Can you play like [Eb] one bar going down and one you can continue up.
Like [E] say.
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_ _ _ _ You want to try that?
You can do it slow.
Slow.
_ _ _ [Gm] _ _ _
[G] _ _ [Gm] _ _ _ [C] Beautiful.
Exactly.
How about start on the 7th.
[G] _ _ _ _
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