Lesson 22

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As we come to the end of the harmony section of this course about the only part we haven't touched on is "Endings".  Lesson 22 gives us five examples of endings with Group A chords and five with Group B chords.  Mickey doesn't say anything about this lesson such as try to create your own endings.  I think that he would really be pleased if we did.  So let's analyze what Mickey's arranged to get ideas for creating our own endings:

Exercise 1:  Mickey's using a forward arpeggio against the chord progression G Maj7 - F Maj7 - Bb Maj7 - Ab Maj7 - G Maj7.  You may be wondering how did Mickey come up with this progression?  It doesn't seem to follow any Circle of Fourths or any progression we've studied.  In Lesson 19 we talked about the "Tri-tone Connection".  Using that as our guide, we have G to F to Bb sub for E to Ab sub for D to G or G - F - E - D - G, or harmonizing a descending G Blues scale from I to V.  That's my best guess.  How about yours?

Exercise 2:  We have a A min7 - D13b5b9 - G Maj7 progression, ii - V - I.

Exercise 3:  We have a G Maj7 - Bb Maj7 - Ab Maj7 - F# Maj7 - G Maj7.  I'm going to use the same logic as Exercise 1:  G to Bb subbing for E, Ab subbing for D, F# subbing for C to G, or G - E - D - C - G, another phrase of Parallel Harmony.

Exercise 4:  We have A min7 - D13 - D13b5b9 - G Maj7 progression, ii - V - I again.

Exercise 5:  We have G Maj6 to C# dim7 to C Maj6 to D13b5b9 to G Maj7.  Although this seems pretty obvious, my best guess it that it really revolves around a descending chromatic scale of B to Bb to A to Ab to G.  Putting those notes in the bass, we have:

Revoicing Exercise 5

You decide:  Is my analysis correct or have I just written another ending?

Exercise 6:  This exercise is based on a D min to F min to C Maj7 progression.  I believe that F min is a substitute for a G11b9 which would be a ii - V - I progression.\

Exercise 7:  D min7 to F min7 to C Maj7.  F min7 can be thought of as a G11#5b9 without a root.  Again, ii - V - I.

Exercise 8:  We have D min7 to G7 to C6/9 to C Maj7.  Mickey consistently calls 6/9 chords as "ma9".  ii - V - I.

Exercise 9:  D min9 to G13b9 to C 6/9 (marked in error).  Our old friend, ii - V - I.

Exercise 10:  D min9 to G7#5b9 to C 6/9 (marked in error) to C Maj7.  Also a ii - V - I.

From our analysis, it's pretty safe to conclude that a ii - V - I progression, or a descending scale of practically any flavor can make a Mickey Baker style ending.

About the TEF's:  I only transposed the TEF's to keys where it was within reason to be able to play them on any guitar.  Several actually are playable in all keys.

For the overly ambitious:  Try to transpose as many of the exercises to D, A, and E.  Don't forget to continue writing rhythm guitar parts for favorite songs as we started in Lesson 17.

Just keep it FUN!