Today's sound is all about creating an intro for
any song that starts with a minor chord. for example:
we can use that as an intro for my funny valentine
or...
which would also work as an intro to all the things you are
so, did you figure out the trick? no worries let's take a look at it together the only
thing that we're doing here is making sure that we start with a seven sus4 chord built on the
second degree of our target then we voice the seven sus4 using a major seven chord
on the flat seven so if the first chord is a c minor like in my funny valentine we have to start
on d7 sus4 which is the second degree of c minor and we're going to voice the d7 sus4 by playing
a c major 7 chord on the right hand c is the flat 7 of d this makes the d seven sus four a d seven
sus four nine thirteen e is the nine g is the s4 and b is the thirteen now we transform the sus4
by flattening one note at a time to resolve to the next seven sus4 chord a major second below so the
first note that we must move is the g which goes to an f sharp this turns the d7 sus4 into a d7 913
then we move the e to an e flat turning the 9 into a flat 9 which gives us d7 flat 9
13 and now we move the b to b flat turning the 13 into a flat 13 which gives us d7 flat 9
flat 13. now this d7 wants to resolve to g minor which is actually the related 2 of
c7 so if we reharmonize the g minor 7 into a c7 sus4 which by the way is a very common reharm
we've actually turned the d7 sus4 into c7 sus4 now we can apply the same technique to the c7 sus4
so c7 sus4 we voice using b flat major 7 then we flatten one note at a time c7 sus4 to c7
to c7 flat 9 to c7 flat 9 flat 13 which wants to resolve to f minor 7. the f minor 7 is the
related two of b flat seven so we have now turned the c seven sus four into a b flat seven sus four
and now we voice the b flat seven sus4 with a flat major 7 and transform it into b
flat 7 to b flat 7 flat 9 to b flat 7 flat 9 flat 13 which wants to resolve to e flat minor
this time instead of re-harmonizing using the related five we use pickerty third resolution
and resolve the b flat seven flat nine flat 13 to e flat major seven which is the relative major
of our target so the only thing we need to do is follow this e flat major 7 with the 5
of c minor 7 which is g7 and since our target is a minor chord we can play g7 sharp 9 flat 13.
and then resolve it to c minor 7. pretty cool right
for all the things you are we did the same exact thing
first chord is f minor so we move up a second to start with g7 sus4 and we play
then move down to f7 sus4
then e flat seven sus four which resolves to a flat major seven and
then targets the f minor seven with a c seven sharp nine flat 13. easy peasy
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