Christina – mDecks Music
A detailed arrangement tutorial for Buster Williams' "Christina" focusing on chord-scale choices, voicings, and upper-structure ideas to enrich your reharmonization and comping.
Learn how to navigate the less-tonal harmonic landscape of "Christina" using clear chord-scale strategies: when to use Dorian on minor-7s, Lydian for major-7s (and when Ionian fits), and Mixolydian vs. Mixolydian sus4 for dominant colors. The lesson covers practical tools like pedal-point thinking, adding the fifth, rootless voicings, and creating upper-structure triads that highlight melody tones and tensions. Includes examples showing how to voice D♭7 variations, approach the G♭ major-7 center, and craft compelling triad-over-seventh textures for comping and solos. An annotated PDF of the arrangement and techniques is provided for deeper study and practice.
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