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Chromatic Stretches

Inserting a larger number of notes (even or uneven)

• Bridging the interval of an uneven number of half steps:

The following intervals have an uneven number of half steps:

Minor Third

Fourth

Fifth

Sixth

Major Seventh

The rule here is

If you start on a strong beat: insert an extra tone before the CT you want to
reach. You can do this by approaching the CT from above or using the technique
described in Methenisms, Milesisms.

If you start on a weak beat, insert no extra tones...

Say you want to approach the b7th of G7 from the 4th: this makes an interval of
a Fifth. Then you insert an extra tone...

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Say you want to approach the third of G7 from the fifht of G7. This is an interval
of a Third. The same goes here...

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Same goes for the other direction: going up gives you the same rules as above:

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Let’s go for the sixth interval: from b7 of G7 to the 5th of G7:

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• Bridging the interval of an even number of half steps:

Intervals with an even number of intervals are:

Major third

#11

#5

b6

b7

Here the rule is: If you start on a strong beat and the CT that you want to reach
is an even number of halfsteps away, you have to insert NO or an even number
of notes. You just walk chromatically to the CT.

On the other hand: if you start on a weak beat, insert one or an uneven number
of notes.

Take the same exercises as above, but with intervals with an even number of
half steps.

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