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Hey guys, I hope All The Things is still TOTM. Here are a few choruses on All The Things using chord tones. I think it's important to be able to improvise with strictly chord tones and try to make it sound as musical as possible. It's not easy since all of the notes are stable notes, but only using chord tones allows us to focus on other issues like smoothly making the connection from chord to chord, use of motives, time feel, experimenting with various rhythms, starting phrases in different places in the measure, beginning a phrase on an upbeat vs.

Here is part two of the guide tones etude. Notice more have been added, with approach tones getting in and out of them.

Chinese translation is for Chinese students
前奏（intro）
有很多不同的方式可以為一首曲子加一些前奏，
今天要講的叫做b5 intro。
因為開始的那個音是從曲子調性的主音算起來的降第五音。
一路下行，主要的目的是帶領到第一個和弦（PDF中是Fmajor）

通常我們如果用這個intro，會讓他是8小節intro，也就是像PDF中寫的。
當然在這些和聲配置（Voicing）中間，你可以插入其他不同的Voicing，
增添色彩。

There's an etude here in here called "Line Etude for First Half." For extra credit, create a 2nd half for it :)

How about we build a list of Essential Blues heads. The must knows.

Billies Bounce
Bags Groove (of course)
Sonymoon for Two
Straight No Chaser
Footprints
Berks Works

I'll stop there. what others? it would be great if we had a list of 20 of them, major and minor