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    The document discusses drop 2, a jazz technique where the second note of a chord is lowered. It provides two short musical examples of drop 2 applied to the first four bars of 'Blue Bossa', with the second example tweaking drop 2 to make it sound more interesting. The document also briefly explains block chords, where chords are built from the melody note down, and are usually used with another instrument providing the bass line.

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    The document discusses drop 2, a jazz technique where the second note of a chord is lowered. It provides two short musical examples of drop 2 applied to the first four bars of 'Blue Bossa', with the second example tweaking drop 2 to make it sound more interesting. The document also briefly explains block chords, where chords are built from the melody note down, and are usually used with another instrument providing the bass line.

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    The document discusses drop 2, a jazz technique where the second note of a chord is lowered. It provides two short musical examples of drop 2 applied to the first four bars of 'Blue Bossa', with the second example tweaking drop 2 to make it sound more interesting. The document also briefly explains block chords, where chords are built from the melody note down, and are usually used with another instrument providing the bass line.

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    chapter

    chapter 1 - GETTING STARTED WITH DROP 2


    ______________________________File: RVincent.ex1.01.mus File date: 4/10/09

    Print date: 7/13/09______________________________

    Play Example 1-1 (CD1 Track #1), the first four bars of Kenny Dorhams Blue Bossa. This is
    the sound of drop 2.
    Ex. 1-1

    C m7
    b b c ..
    b
    ..
    &
    8va

    .... .... .... .... ....


    ) ) ) ))
    13

    F m7

    j
    j
    j

    n b

    n b
    12

    10

    ..
    ..
    8

    b n A

    b ...
    n .

    b
    J

    .... .... .... ....


    )) ))
    5

    14

    ww
    ww
    13

    bPlay
    Ex. 1-2 (CD1 Track #2), the same four bars of Blue Bossa, this time with drop 2 tweaked
    b
    & ab bitc to makeThis
    staff
    will be cropped out
    it sound more
    interesting.
    ______________________________File: RVincent.ex1.02.mus File date: 4/11/09 Print date: 7/13/09______________________________

    Ex. 1-2

    Cm C m6
    j
    j

    .. b b n b
    b
    c
    n

    b
    &

    F m6

    8va

    j
    n

    . .. . .. .... . .. ....
    ). ). ) ). )
    12

    13

    10

    ..
    ..

    b ...
    n .

    . . . .. .. . . . . . . .
    ). ) ). )
    5

    14

    ww
    ww

    12

    This book covers both the basic version of drop 2, demonstrated in Ex. 1-1 and the more
    advanced version shown in Ex. 1-2.

    bb c
    b
    &

    This staff will be cropped out

    Block Chords

    The previous fragments are examples of what arrangers and jazz musicians commonly refer to
    as block chords. The term refers to having a similarly voiced block of harmony under each
    note of a melody. Notice I said under each note of a melody. Block chords build the harmony
    from the top down, rather than from the bass note up, and are usually used in conjunction with
    another instrument supplying the bass line. This way the melody is the highest, or soprano, voice
    in the chord. The melody may be the melody of a tune, or part of an improvised solo line, or a
    background melody accompanying a tune or solo played by someone else.
    You need to know at least a little jazz harmony to make sense of this book: chord construction
    (the notes that make up a given chord), and the II-V-I progression.

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