![]() Learn by heart minor and major blues structure with their main variants to concentrate better on the improvisation. Remember modal music is often based on very few chords (“So What” by Miles Davis has two ones only). ![]() I love simplicity and I prefer few chords, so that I can concentrate better on melody and phrasing creativity in playing. These are different chords sub substitutions being more complex in jazz standards but which tend to simplicity just with three chords in rock-blues, funky, dance music and pop. Thousands famous songs are based on these chords. It is very expressive and music becomes consequently deep. This blues structure is one of my favorite harmonic forms. So as in major blues, it improvises on these structures just using chordal notes (the 1st the 3rd the 5th the 7th of the chord) and paying attention in varying the beginning and the end of the phrases (in different points in a-bar). It has more tension and pathos and it is ideal in order to compose intense melodic excerpts. ![]() Minor blues is so much more expressive than the major one.
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