[nipsnertz]

I have been working on the tune Freight Trane from the John Coltrane-Kenny Burrell album. This is a 12 bar blues but has non-standard chords. You can find a chord sheet here:

http://www.songtrellis.com/sounds/viewer$3809

My question is trying to find good scale choices for bars 5-8 which are II-V chords decending in half-steps.

I see a lot of Wes Montgomery tunes that have similar decending lines.

Any Help is appreciated

 

[Nefertiti]

You could just use Dominant Bebop scales based off the V7 chords of each measure. They sound fine over the ii-7 chord also. So measure 6 would be Ab7. measure 7 G7, and measure 8 F#7 dominant bebop scale. Not to make this into an ad but my book on this scale has tons of stuff to use over that dominant sound. Steve

 

[hgiles]

In a sequence of ii-Vs that are moving at twice the rate of the normal harmonic rhythm you can really play either the ii OR the V scale and be okay.

Of course, what Neff says is also correct since the bebop scale for the ii chord and the V chord is the same scale.

That chord progression is really just a descending blues or "Bird Blues" --- typical bebop stuff.