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by onlinejazz (5 posts) 10 years ago
I've heard that guide tones are very useful while improvising, and seems to be an important concept for jazz theory.What is a guide tone? How can it help improvisation?
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by GFC (842 posts) 10 years ago
Guide tones are the ones that define the major and minor tonalities relative to the root. Centering improvised lines around guide tones helps to lend a melodic character to the playing,
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