At 07:45 PM 1/21/97 -0500, you wrote:
>Joey Goldstein wrote:
>>
>> One hip substitution that I've seen some guys advocate (Mick Goodrick in
>> his great book "The Advancing Guitarist" for one) is substituting a Maj7#5
>> chord for a Dom7. I guess it's one way of harmonizing the maj7 as if it
>> were a chord tone in it's own right. Does anybody else on this list use
>> this substitute very often?
>>
>
>Can't see this at all. Major 7th is not a dominant chord substitution.
>
>
Not true.
Chord quality substitution is always worth a try and will often work.
I.e. Cm7 = C7 = Cm7b5 = Cmaj7 = Cdim7
There are endless examples of this in practice.
If you read through my chord substitution expositions in the
justjazz editted archives, you will see numerous samples of all
of the above.
Of course there are no guarantees but even things like tri-tone
subs are not guaranteed to work.
For example alot of people will get mad if they do a tri-tone sub
and you tell them it doesnt work. There is a belief that those are
always okay.
It all depends on the tune.
reed
Reed Kotler
reed@justjazz.com
http://www.justjazz.com