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I'm at school right now and I had a few minutes with the camera on. So I thought I'd play a very rough and quick version of Donna Lee, the etude I have posted here.

I think if anything the etude will lead to you thinking about using double stops in your lines to get the chords happening.

I also have a version over Bud Powell's Celia that I'll post soon.

I do spend a lot of time playing solos 'in slow motion' and seeing where I can add things in. That's what is fun about this instrument, it can be sort of like a puzzle.

Here are various studies on the tune green dolphin street.

Aolian the 6th scale degree of the major scale.

Chinese translation for Chinese students.

Aeolian是大調音階降3,降6,降7
在爵士樂中，比Phrygian多，比Dorian用的少。
Aeolian和Dorian的不同是Dorian沒有降6音, Phrygian多了降2音,

Hopefully if this is after the Chris masterclass there will be a recording of it. If you don't see one, then email tony at tony@tonymiceli.com and check if there is one.

Here are 2 lessons for dominant chords.

Any jazz musician has been tripped up by the bridge of Rhythm Changes, the 4 dominant chords. It's easy to fake your way through the bridge and difficult to weave your way through the bridge.

Make sure you study dominant chords and scales and ways of getting through them!

I simply grouped to lessons that would be in two different places here for you to check out.

Breaking the Octave into 3 parts gets into the world of Giant Steps and Countdown. It also opens up a whole world of comping and improv ideas.

The lesson demonstrates some comping patterns and ideas to get you started on playing in a ChaCha groove. All the patterns are over a ii-V7 vamp (Amin7-D7). You could use these patterns over songs like Oye Como Va and Soul Sauce.