BEBOP SUBSTITUTION

Last month we explored the idea of creating bebop licks over a jazz-blues using chord substitution. The idea is to ‘Minorise’ the Dominant chords by superimposing Minor tonalities over them. These Minor tonalities become the source of our melodic lines.

The first idea is to substitute a Dominant 7th chord with a Minor 7th whose root is a 5th above it. We’re working with a G Major blues, and chord I in our example is G13, so the Minor chord a perfect 5th above is D Minor.

Last time we used Dm7, Dm9 and Dm6 arpeggios as the basis for our melodic lines. This month we’re going to explore the sounds that can be created with the