Tune Forms

Modal AABA in D

A 32-bar AABA form with one minor 7th chord to each section: eight bars of Dorian on i, and a bridge a half step higher.

120 BPM
Practice in all 12 keys
  1. Bar 1: Dm7 i7
  2. Bar 2: the bar before again, Dm7
  3. Bar 3: the bar before again, Dm7
  4. Bar 4: the bar before again, Dm7
  5. Bar 5: the bar before again, Dm7
  6. Bar 6: the bar before again, Dm7
  7. Bar 7: the bar before again, Dm7
  8. Bar 8: the bar before again, Dm7
  1. Bar 9: Dm7 i7
  2. Bar 10: the bar before again, Dm7
  3. Bar 11: the bar before again, Dm7
  4. Bar 12: the bar before again, Dm7
  5. Bar 13: the bar before again, Dm7
  6. Bar 14: the bar before again, Dm7
  7. Bar 15: the bar before again, Dm7
  8. Bar 16: the bar before again, Dm7
  1. Bar 17: E♭m7 ♭ii7
  2. Bar 18: the bar before again, Ebm7
  3. Bar 19: the bar before again, Ebm7
  4. Bar 20: the bar before again, Ebm7
  5. Bar 21: the bar before again, Ebm7
  6. Bar 22: the bar before again, Ebm7
  7. Bar 23: the bar before again, Ebm7
  8. Bar 24: the bar before again, Ebm7
  1. Bar 25: Dm7 i7
  2. Bar 26: the bar before again, Dm7
  3. Bar 27: the bar before again, Dm7
  4. Bar 28: the bar before again, Dm7
  5. Bar 29: the bar before again, Dm7
  6. Bar 30: the bar before again, Dm7
  7. Bar 31: the bar before again, Dm7
  8. Bar 32: the bar before again, Dm7
Voicing family

Four-note rootless voicings in their two forms, with the 3rd or the 7th on the bottom, played over the root.

Customize each chord
Meter
4/4
Form
A-A-B-A
Bars
32
Usual key
D

Modal jazz of the late 1950s and the 1960s traded quick changes for long stretches of a single mode, leaving the soloist to create the motion. Play Dorian over the i7, and in the bridge move everything up a half step, then back down. Practice building lines from fourths and from pentatonic shapes within the mode, and listen for the lift when the bridge arrives.

Reharmonize Analyze these changes

None of the usual substitutions apply: there are no dominant 7ths to replace and no whole steps to fill.