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Well, here's my contribution, a walking bass part. It's a little song I wrote call Don't Have A Chance. It's a 16 bar form, and the chord progression is as follows:

Dm7 | Bdim  | Bbmaj7 | A7alt |
Dm7 | Bdim  | Bbmaj7 | A7alt |
Dm7 | A7alt | Dm7    | A7alt |
Gm7 | Gb7   | E7b5   | A7alt |

Feel free to add anything, or start your own progression. Or a solo on these chords.

Also, there is a place in the tune where the bass gets off, I don't know how I let it slip.... ugh!

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And finally, a tasty little morsel of a guitar solo. It's 32 measures long, spanning two little verses. I played mostly a D dorian, or D minor throughout, the only time I really got away from that was over the Gb7 or A7alt.

This one is short, I chopped off the ends so its a little quicker. It butts up to the very beginning of the mp3, or verse.

im going to try but no promises on if ill upload it today

my first sounded good to me. so im gonna just upload now

Hey Bryan, I'm trying to comp this (your chord progression) but I have zero jazz experience. Any advice? Voicing suggestions? Anything at all :)

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Well, most simply, try D dorian over the whole thing.

• More specifically, try D dorian over Dm7.
• For Bdim, B locrian works. Tip: B locrian is the same as D dorian!.
• For Bbmaj7, I like Bb lydian, which has a #4 (or think F major, G dorian, etc...).

• A7alt is interesting. Try a half-whole scale starting on A (A-A#-C-C#-etc..) Tip: there are only two diminished scales: half-whole and whole-half. "A" half-whole is the same as "G" whole-half.

• Gm7 - G dorian or G minor (aeolian)

• Gb7 - G mix
• E7b5 - E mix with a flat 5 and flat nine always sounds nice

Good luck!

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Oh, jazz voicings.... um.... these are some good jazz voicings.

Sooooo I have a Hammond M3 organ. :-) I really want to show it off, but I'm not so hot at jazz voicings on piano, much less organ. Regardless, I did it anyways. Here it is!

There's a glitch in the early section, I wish I knew why it did that. Anyone know?

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I'd Play Bb Melodic Minor on A7alt. It's a really smooth transition from the Bbmaj7, and it's the scale A7alt was derived from, anyways. If you want to get technical, you could play A Super Locrian, but that's unnecessary.

I was walking on this, but I have yet to get recording stuff! Hahaha...

I'd love to hear you walking a line over this, I've only head my subpar line so far... :-)