Teach Yourself Jazz - online guidebook
For the beginning player, with sheet music samples
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may begin to develop and expand by experimenting with the varying degrees of tension used. It is notable how, nowadays, even the meanest Tin Pan Alley potboiler has become affected by this harmonic enterprise: here is the primitive 'UM-cha-cha' of the waltz before and after:
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Naturally, you can go on and on increasing the complexity and tension of chords:
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You can also, of course, experiment by altering the sort of melodic scale you use. The 'blues' scale, as we saw earlier on, flattened its third and seventh degrees: you can shape melodies in a different way by also sharpening the fourth degree of your scale and flattening the sixth:
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