Harmonic / Key Centre Analysis / Roman Numeral Analysis
it is apparently also known as roman numeral analysis or key centre analysis. eg, i vi iim7 v7 in 1 st major then iim7 v7 in 3rd major and so on.
i have been trying to analyse some tunes having been taught a few, but tend to get lost and not certain which key i should be working in. i have also been using it a a basis for improvisation, ie if i am in c major andhave the i vi iim7 v7 turnaround then by simply playing the c major scale over this i will be using 4 different modes.
i work mainly from the new real books and have been looking for books specific to harmonic analysis in jazz, but have so far only come across books relating to classical analysis, such as the schenkerian approach.
any help would be very appreciated. thanks.
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chances are that's ii-v progression leading to the tonic major a 4th up from the dominant v.
a ii-v doesn't always resolve to a tonic major. sometimes the next chord is tonic but carries a dominant 7. this is a clue that your tonal center has probably shifted.
take a look at the first part of mel torme's "the christmas song"
it begins in cmaj with a couple of call and response ii-v-i progressions.
next it shifts to a ii-v-i progression in f major
then a ii-v-i in e major
a ii-v-i in eb major
followed by a ii-v-i in c major which brings us back where we started.
how do i know that we have deserted the old tonal center and we have a new tonal gravity?
pretty much if you see a v7 or a iim not in the current key pop up, you know you're headed into new key.
minors work pretty much the same way. the ii chord relative to the minor tonic tends to be a half-diminished 7th chord. the v chord in a minor can have all sorts of alterations.
i also use marc sabatella's book "the harmonic language of jazz standards" (www.outsideshore.com) as this whole book is dedicated to the harmonic analysis of real book standards and comes highly recommended!!
ii/v/i is the key to it all though!!!
bro'
an approach for improvising over these chords is explained by me in the thread "darn that dream scales".
savage
harmonic analysis.
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