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Inside Jazz: Alphabetic Junctions
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Inside Jazz: Alphabetic Junctions

If we take the English alphabet and display it alongside a scalar series, the two separate systems become a device that can translate the language of words into one of melodies.

Inside Jazz: Linear Transformations, Pt. 2
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Inside Jazz: Linear Transformations, Pt. 2

In last month’s column, we learned how scales and arpeggios can be combined for the construction of line forms (“Linear Transformations,” May 2011 PG). This month, we’ll continue exploring

Inside Jazz: Linear Transformations
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Inside Jazz: Linear Transformations

There are two distinctly different ways to expand the chord form—our skeletal melody—into linear improvisations.

Inside Jazz: Automatic Voicings
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Inside Jazz: Automatic Voicings

Exploring how you can use diminished and augmented shapes to create automatic voicings.