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Jazz auditions are soon, need help with chords!?

  • I have jazz auditions on wednesday and thursday this week but I dont understand chords! I need to improv a jazz solo so any tips on that would be great. I need help with the ...show more

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    Brett, in modern chord symbols, a 6 means "add the 6th of the chord" not first inversion. You are thinking of figured bass aka continuo, which predates modern notation (it was common in the 1600s and 1700s). Modern harmonic analysis uses this notation when chord roots are identified as scale degrees; for example, i6 means a minor tonic chord in first inversion. But when a letter identifies the chord root its a "sixth chord." For example, C6 is C E G A. Original poster, Bb trumpet sounds a concert Bb when it plays a written C. Thus if you want to play these chords at concert pitch, you have to transpose them up a step. For example, to play C6 concert pitch, you play a D6 on your trumpet: D F# A B

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A couple of those in the last answer were incorrect. G7 - G B D F C7 - C E G Bb D7 - D F# A C dm7 - D F A C C6 - C E G (C6 generally means first inversion, making the base note the E.. if you want C add 6, then you're looking at C E G A) E7 - E G# B D F7 - F A C Eb A+7 (flat 9) - (assuming A+ is augmented) A C# E# (aka F) Bb <-flat 9 em7 - E G B D

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