Measures 1-4 for Bebop Piano Improvisation in A Flat (Ab)

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Now we're going to go through our first four measures of our Bee bop Blues and we're going to encounter some new chords, but I'll show you how to get them it's just a breeze. Again we're just going to alter one note very simple easy stuff to get. So if we take a look at our first chord we have A flat seven and you're going to say, "Hey right we learned A flat major how do we play this?" Well it says seven and that really explains everything and I'll show you that in a minute. Then our next chord is B seven and I wrote D seven, but it should be a B seven so just kind of ignore this. So we have a B seven and then A flat seven again. Or you know what? That's right that should be a D flat seven. So we'll just cross that out D flat seven so you have A flat seven, D flat seven, A flat seven, B flat minor, A flat seven. So write those four chords down A flat, D flat, A flat, B flat minor, A flat. How you find those chords is this is our A flat major chord right? We have one, three, five, seven. So what is seventh chord takes the seventh note or degree of the scale and lowers it a step so we have this now. Same with our D flat if we start on D flat and go one, three, five, seven right? Here's our scale one, two, three, four, five, six, seven. This is what we come up with in our black chord but it's a seventh chord so we're going to lower this down a notch and we get this sound this D flat seven. So we have A flat seven, D flat seven, A flat seven and we learned E flat major our E flat seven. So E flat minor takes the third and lowers that a degree and then you have your E flat minor chord. So by lowering the seventh degree of our major scale we get A flat seven. The same with the D flat we have a D flat seven. Then our E flat seven we changed to E flat minor by lowering a minor third. So lower the seventh here and here and lower the third there and its gold. That brings us to the D flat seven and our next measure which we will go over in just a minute.

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