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Quick question and simple but wanted input:
Let's say I am soloing over F sharp minor seven flat five and one of my solo choices I came up with is: whole step, half step pattern. i was thinking f# minor in dorian, but didn't like emphasizing the c#..yeah i am a geek.
Cool about whole half thing?

Here's a mega etude. Your job is to enter the chords and study each bar by writing all the alterations in. Is it aN F7b9? F713, F713#9. Look carefully at each bar and study the tune. Then play it. Memorize if you dare.

Bb Rhythm Changes - had a great improv class this semester. It's a joy to teach when the students come to class inquisitive and motivated to learn. Throughout the semester some of the improv concepts that we worked on included Four Note Groupings (FNGs), Major 7th #5 Superimposition, Tension Resolution, Motivic Playing and Reharmonization Concepts. Yesterday the students were asking what to play on Bb rhythm changes so we selected Bird's Anthropology and applied some of the concepts that we covered in the semester.

Play this as fast as you can. It trips me up!