Teach Yourself Jazz - online guidebook

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	56                               jazz they make an ending to a sentence—we might perhaps describe it as the phrase: "Come home!"—the G chord leading inevitably to the final G. Now we have got a tiny basic vocabulary of two chords. Let us try to make a sort of phrase with them. The simplest phrase imaginable is one that starts from 'home', goes to 'the other place', and comes 'home' again: Example 7
	This makes up a simple phrase we might describe as 'home from home'. In itself, this phrase is nowhere near satisfying enough to constitute 'entertainment'. We shall need first of all to apply to it the 'prolonging' process mentioned earlier.
	Construction of Chords However, before we go further in this direction, let us pause for a moment to make sure that you understand how to put simple chords together. If you don't know how to read the notes on the piano, this can be quickly learnt from any one of a dozen good piano tutors on the market. You don't need an elaborate volume; in fact, the simpler the better. Your local music shop is bound to have one