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Fender Players Club: Common Phrases

This document discusses common phrases used in jazz music. It focuses on a common phrase that often starts on the ninth of a Dm7 chord or the thirteenth of a G13 chord. The document explains that many phrases used for a Dm7 chord can also be used for a G7 chord, as they come from the same tonal center. It provides examples of this common phrase being used over different chords, as well as in a ii-V-I progression. It also advertises a jazz guitar improvisation book and CD that can help develop solo skills and cover topics like common phrases, scales, and more.

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Fender Players Club: Common Phrases

This document discusses common phrases used in jazz music. It focuses on a common phrase that often starts on the ninth of a Dm7 chord or the thirteenth of a G13 chord. The document explains that many phrases used for a Dm7 chord can also be used for a G7 chord, as they come from the same tonal center. It provides examples of this common phrase being used over different chords, as well as in a ii-V-I progression. It also advertises a jazz guitar improvisation book and CD that can help develop solo skills and cover topics like common phrases, scales, and more.

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FENDER PLAYERS CLUB COMMON PHRASES

COMMON PHRASES

In this unit we will focus on some of the phrases common to the jazz language. It is important to know the chord tones,
extensions and alterations of the harmony you are dealing with. For example, some of the phrases you choose to put into
your vocabulary might start on the ninth of the minor seventh chord or the sharp-ninth of the dominant seventh chord.
Often you will connect the smaller phrases together to make longer lines.

A suggestion for practice might be to take some of these lines made from connected phrase fragments and work them
through the cycle of fifths and the chord changes of a jazz or standard tune.

A COMMON PHRASE REVISITED


The first phrase we will look at is one of the more commonly heard phrases in the jazz lexicon. This common phrase is
often played over Dm7 and starts on the ninth of the chord. Another way to look at this phrase is as a G13 with the
phrase beginning on the thirteenth. Most of the vocabulary we use over a Dm7 chord is interchangeable with a G7 chord
that isn't altered. (It is common to precede a V7 chord with iim7 chord.) In sections where the harmony stays on the
dominant chord (static harmony) you will often hear a ii-V7 occuring to maintain interest in the accompaniment. Many of
the lines you might play for Dm7 will work for G7 as well as Bm7b5 as they come from the same tonal center.

If this same phrase were played over a Bm7b5, it would start on the eleventh. For Db7(alt.), the phrase would start on
the sharp-nine.

FIG. 1

 AUDIO-CommPhr1.mp3

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FIG. 2A
Here is the same phrase used in context of a ii-V-I progression.

FIG. 2B

FIG. 3
Here is another idea using the same phrase.

 AUDIO-CommPhr2.mp3

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This lesson is from:


Jazz Guitar Improvisation (Musicians Institute Press)
by Sid Jacobs.

Develop your solo skills with this comprehensive method which includes a CD with 99
full demonstration tracks.

Topics covered include: common jazz phrases; applying scales and arpeggios; guide
tones, non-chordal tones, fourths; and more.

Includes standard notation and tablature.

Inventory # HL 695128. Book/CD pack $17.95 (US).

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