Jonah Dempcy

 

Patterns Using Stowell's Dom.7 Reharmonizations

This is a follow-up to the previous post on John Stowell's dominant 7 reharmonizations. I recommend reading it first.

Here are some stock patterns that utilize Stowell's dom.7 reharmonizations. These are substitutions for a standard C7 resolving to F Major7.

The first example begins with a chord on the first downbeat. The other examples begin on the first upbeat, which is the "correct" way to play this lick. I simply began the first example with a chord on the downbeat to assist the ear in hearing the proper rhythm.


C7#11 to FMaj7




C7b6 to FMaj7




C7sus4b9 to FMaj7




C-7b5 to FMaj7




C7Alt. to FMaj7




Here are the correlations between the above chord substitutions and their respective melodic minor scales:

• G melodic minor- one tension (#11) = C7#11
• F melodic minor- one tension (b13) = C7b6
• Bb melodic minor- two tensions (b9, #9) = C7sus4b9
• Eb melodic minor- three tensions (#9, #11, b13) = C-7b5
• C# melodic minor- four tensions (b9, #9, #11, b13) = C7Alt.