LearnJazzPiano.com archives: Hip tritone idea

mooondancer -- 08/02/2004, 22:19:11 -- #6198

I want to share a very interesting sound someone showed me recently. When making a tritone substitution such as Eb for A, play the Eb7#11 (lydian dominant) scale in the right hand: Eb F G A Bb C Db Eb.  Keep on playing an A in the left hand.  This by itself sounds hip.  Then to play broken chord in the RH, take the root and b7 of the ORIGINAL chord along with the 1 and 5 of the substitution: Bb Eb G A.  Playing this scale and/or broken chord while keeping the original bass note is a great sound.

Jazz+ -- 08/02/2004, 22:51:52 -- #6202

Playing the Eb7#11 (lydian dominant) scale in the right hand: Eb F G A Bb C Db Eb on A7 is the same as the A7 alt scale (Bb melodic minor).

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