Improvisation Tactics for the Aspiring Jazz Player: Melodic Minor Modes

The Ionian [musical flat]3 can also be used with another chord, the minor 7. Since it can sound wrong, having the major 7 of the Ionian [musical flat]3 played on a [musical flat]7 chord, it is only to be used sparingly. By nature, the tension Is built and released because the final chord (Bh) Is the fifth and the next chord (E[musical flat]) is the tonic.To really build up tension we will be manipulating both the chord and the scale. Since Bt»7 chord Is played over the third and fourth beats It would sound wonderful If on the fourth beat you did a trltone substitution on the Bh7 chord and have It become an E7 and then resolve to the tonic.