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Offline samsurfing

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The 7-3-6!
« on: March 06, 2009, 11:06:27 AM »
Hey guys,
Can any one give me some examples of where i can use the 7-3-6 to get that real gospel feel, and maybe even explain how to enhance it?
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Re: The 7-3-6!
« Reply #1 on: March 06, 2009, 12:44:31 PM »
7-3-6 progression is usually used to go from the 1 to the the 6... In actuality it is a minor 2-5-1 in the relative minor key.

A good example is Marvin Sapp's Never Would Have Made it. I'm only going to post the chords in the progression so you would understand it.. I'll post it in the key of C

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1-C/CEG or Cmaj-Never Would Have
7-B/ABDF or Bm7b5-Made
3-E/AbCDG or E7#5#9-It
6-A/GBCE or Am9-Never Would Have

Like I said previously before, it is technically a minor 2-5-1 in the relative minor key of C major, which would be A minor.

A good way to enhance the 7-3-6 would be to use tritone substitution, which is basically saying that whenever you have a chord with a naturally occurring tritone (which in the example above would be the E7 chord, or the "3"), you can substitute the bass note for the note 6 half steps away... so that would mean playing the E7 chord with a Bb in your left hand, which would now make it a Bb13 chord, but that's another story...

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Re: The 7-3-6!
« Reply #2 on: March 06, 2009, 03:17:26 PM »
I like alphabet not numbers :) To me its all about the pattern of chords that surrounds a melodic line. Here's a version of the use of numbers I did on youutbe last year.

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Re: The 7-3-6!
« Reply #3 on: March 06, 2009, 03:25:58 PM »
Here's another example I did in 1997 using that number formula in my format.

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Re: The 7-3-6!
« Reply #4 on: March 09, 2009, 12:57:15 PM »
ah awesome! thankyou both!
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