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lately, i've been transcribing some fast modal lines, kind of like you would hear on "now he sings. now he sobs". the only thing i've really found so far is that they are comprised mainly of pentatonics and chromatics.

basically these are the kind of lines you want to bust out with moving quartals in the left hand and they sound really impressive. i've never really seen this kind of improvisation mentioned in any books. does anyone have any more information on this?

by grsbmd on 03/12/2007, 21:22

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miles davis was extremely found of using the abovementioned "collapsing figure" during his time with bird and diz.

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by 7 on 03/12/2007, 23:22

here's something from a few years ago when i was actively involved over here thats' still online-
https://halgalper.com/12_song/roughhouse.pdf

(also check out the patterns on these solos)
https://www.michaelbreckerliverecordings.com/transcriptions.html

whats' good about the galper solo is that it's analyzed in terms of pentatonic key centers etc...........

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by smg on 03/13/2007, 16:06

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