Recently changes to Giant Steps were posted. I am adding this song to
my "book" and like to have a base understanding of the harmonic
structure of each tune I learn. I am a little puzzled by this one
however.
It appears to be divided into 2 parts (for simplicity I'll call them A
and B). Part A is the first 8 bars which is a repeated 4 bars of ...
|I V|I V|I |ii V| with key changes on chord #s 2,4,6 of the first line
and 2,4,6 of the second line. The "B" section appears to be 8 bars
which is a repeated 4 bars of ...
|I |ii V|I |ii V| with key changes at the beginning of the 1st, 2nd
and 4th bar of each 4 bar line.
I caught the tritones where the I chord is held for a full measure
going to the ii chord of the next key. Is that the underlying basis
for the key changes, to capture that tritone?
Basic changes the above comments are based upon are:
|B D7 |G Bb7|Eb |A-7 D7|
|G Bb7|Eb F#7|B |F-7 Bb7|
|Eb |A-7 D7|G |C#-7 F#-7|
|B |F-7 Bb7|Eb |C#-7 F#-7|
I realize there are many approaches to soloing, but ... this tune
seems to lend itself to a solo based upon a symetrical type scale
(whole tone or diminished).
Any suggestions for a newbie jazzplayer want-a-be would be most
welcome.
Mike
mdtemple@ix.netcom.com