Re: In improvisation, how/where does one use these chords?



bgranat wrote:
>
> In improvisation, how/where does one use these chords?
>
> Maj7b5
> Aug7
> Min Maj 7
> Maj7b5
>
> ----------
> I'm getting the above and the following into my brain and fingers in
> all 12 keys, but I haven't come upon the four above chords that I can
> recall in my travels through the fake/real books I have here.

Keep looking. you'll find them.
But I'm not sure what you mean by "Aug7".
Dom7#5 chord symbols sometimes look like "X+7" or "Xaug7" (not
recommended). Maybe that's what you mean?

Instances of Maj7b5 chords will mostly be limited to more modern jazz
tunes, like those of Wayne Shorter. Sometimes Maj7#11 is voiced as maj7b5.

Min7b5 chords are everywhere. You just haven't looked hard enough for
these. They occur most commonly as a II chord in a IIm7b5 V7b9 Im
progression which is the standard cadential formula in minor keys.

> The
> following chords I think I understand, but I'm not sure where I can use
> the Min7b5 -- is it on a biii or bvi?
> Is it restricted to those two in
> a particular key?

It is almost never biii or bvi.

> How do I use it to get to another key?

As IIm7b5 in the new key usually coupled with V7 before it moves to Im
or I of the new key.
Or as VIIm7b5 moving to I.

>
> Maj7
> Min7
> Dom7
> Min7b5
> Dom7 sus 5
> Maj6
> Min6
> Dim7

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