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I spend a fair bit of my practice time working on ii-V-I patterns I've collected. I want to get Steve Neff's collection soon, but I feel like I need to learn to do more with the patterns, to get more out of them practically speaking?
At this point, I pretty much just read them like scales and try to play them as quickly as I can with decent jazz phrasing. I work on playing them from memory, but I usually find myself gravitating back to the book. I have some really nice ones that are only in one key, so I have to transpose them to use them, and these guys rarely get played--it's just too hard on the old noodle
Any suggestions?
One question I have is: how do you translate the individual notes in these patterns into digital patterns for the purposes of transposition. What I mean is, do you use numbers based on each chord or do you think in terms of the tonic. In other words, in the key of C [Dm7-G7-C-C] is the note C is always 1 or is it 7 on the Dm and 5 on the G7.
This relates to a problem I have conceptualizing these patterns (eg Tim Price's ones): I can usually tell right away what the chord tones are over the iim7 chord, but I really struggle to "see" where I am in relation to the chord when I move to the V7? I can play them, but I'm really not good at "thinking" them.
Rory
At this point, I pretty much just read them like scales and try to play them as quickly as I can with decent jazz phrasing. I work on playing them from memory, but I usually find myself gravitating back to the book. I have some really nice ones that are only in one key, so I have to transpose them to use them, and these guys rarely get played--it's just too hard on the old noodle
Any suggestions?
One question I have is: how do you translate the individual notes in these patterns into digital patterns for the purposes of transposition. What I mean is, do you use numbers based on each chord or do you think in terms of the tonic. In other words, in the key of C [Dm7-G7-C-C] is the note C is always 1 or is it 7 on the Dm and 5 on the G7.
This relates to a problem I have conceptualizing these patterns (eg Tim Price's ones): I can usually tell right away what the chord tones are over the iim7 chord, but I really struggle to "see" where I am in relation to the chord when I move to the V7? I can play them, but I'm really not good at "thinking" them.
Rory