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Playing Outside the Harmony lessons from the keyboardist for the Brecker Brothers, David Sanborn, Carlos Santana, Herbie Hancock, Chaka Khan, Celine Dion...

A jazz lesson on one way that I think about creating tension and release, and adding a lot of interesting shapes and harmonic texture, over a piece of modal jazz. In this sample lesson, I take a solo on a C minor funk groove and superimpose pentatonic scales from all 12 keys, weaving in and out of the basic harmony to create a lot of interesting "outside" harmony as I play. We then discuss a very simple way to get at this alternate harmony in such a way that we always know what we're doing and where we're going even when we're substituting, say, an E pentatonic scale, or C# pentatonic scale, over C minor. It's deceptively simple once you get the concept, and it's something I love to teach in the jazz lessons I offer.

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