In this short video I’m playing the nine on each chord of the song I’ve Never Been In Love Before. This vertical practice can help your ear and your mind and leads to some interesting abstract intervalic melodies. I use mostly the natural nine on every chord including the half diminished seventh chords and occasionally I use a flat nine on a dominant seven chord that resolves a fourth away. It’s hard to do this exercise without beginning to hear notes you want to resolve to or play and so creates quite a bit of creative back pressure which I think is important to maintain when improvising.
Singing along with this video or making your own will help you hear the 9 on every chord. I’m using mostly natural 9 on every chord. On the dominant 7th chords that resolve a fourth away I may use the b9 a few times.
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