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7maj7 Chord Voicing Techniques

This document provides guidance on voicing practice for lead lines and melodies. It recommends using the scale and patterns of the tune, including octatonic, pentatonic, diminished, and arpeggios. It also discusses spacing notes at intervals of 4 and techniques like dropping or doubling notes. The document outlines common harmony techniques like chromatic/parallel motion and diatonic movement within a tonality or scale. It also lists diminished passing chords and gospel chord progressions. Finally, it provides a chart of common substitutions for different chord types.

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7maj7 Chord Voicing Techniques

This document provides guidance on voicing practice for lead lines and melodies. It recommends using the scale and patterns of the tune, including octatonic, pentatonic, diminished, and arpeggios. It also discusses spacing notes at intervals of 4 and techniques like dropping or doubling notes. The document outlines common harmony techniques like chromatic/parallel motion and diatonic movement within a tonality or scale. It also lists diminished passing chords and gospel chord progressions. Finally, it provides a chart of common substitutions for different chord types.

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  • Voicing Practice
  • Common Substitutions
  • Harmony

Matt Weisberg

VOICING
lead-line/ PRACTICE
melody spacing

-use melody of tune -4 way close


-octatonic scale
-pentatonic -drop 2/3/4/
-diminished -double lead
-arpeggios
-misc. patterns -use of
substitutions*

HARMONY

-chromatic/parallel (in reference to Common Substitutions


melody/)
- -diatonic within tonality/scale R 3 5 7
(9, b9, #9) (11, #11,
- DIMINISHED PASSING (ii, iii, vi) b13, 13)
- -V-I motion
- gospel iv-I (ii, iii, vi)
dom 7 9, b9, #9 #11,
b13, 13

maj 7 9 #11, 13 6 if melody


on top

min 7 9 11, 13

lead-line/ melody -use melody of tune -octatonic scale -pentatonic -diminished -arpeggios -misc. patterns spacing -4

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