PMG V Major Vb

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sandywilliams
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PMG V Major Vb

Post by sandywilliams »

I love the Joe Henderson Double Rainbow CD but I found myself listening to Triste over and over. They play some really nice changes! First of all they do it in G. Is that the original key? The intro vamp is like F9/G, (Eb Lydian PMGIII MajorIIIB), to a Cmaj9#11/G, ( C Lydian PMG V MajorVB).
It’s fun to play on guitar if you have a bass player but you can get right to the point on piano. Those chords are downright beguiling.
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Post by Bagatell »

Please forgive a newbies question (I still haven't read all of the LCCTO and am still in shock) but can all the Lydian chords be expressed as slash chords?
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Post by sandywilliams »

Look at the section on Principal Chords starting around page 23. Check out all the Principal Chordmodes for each modal genre. I think the answer to your question is , yes. You should sit at a piano and play through all those chords.
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Post by Bagatell »

I see on wikipedia that:

"Some chords may not otherwise be notated, such as Ab/A (Latarski 1991, p. 25). Thus, a slash chord may also indicate the chord form or shape and an additional bass note."

With no voices to the contrary I'll take that as a yes then.

Apologies for hijacking your thread - it is an interesting change, must listen to the album sometime.
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Post by strachs »

Those chord changes remind me of something that Joe Satriani does a lot, which he has called "pitch axis theory". Over one bass note (8th note pulse, for example), various modes, and yes, chordmodes, are sounded in succession, one per measure. Very cool sound.
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Post by sandywilliams »

Not to free-associate but, did you know Satriani studied with jazz great Lennie Tristano? Personally I have found Joe’s compositions to be more interesting than his soloing. This is mainly based on seeing him live years ago. He would launch into this amazing piece and then when the blowing section came it was, ‘Here’s another one(or two) chord jam’.
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