Composing A Jazz Standard – mDecks Music
Published: 2025-09-25
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Learn how to develop a short motif into a full jazz standard using harmonic framing, motivic transformation, and common jazz progressions.
This lesson walks through turning a small melodic idea into a complete jazz tune, demonstrating modal framing, ii–V–I options, modal interchange, and reharmonization tricks. You’ll see practical techniques like rhythmic displacement, inversion, chromatic bass lines, and stretto to vary and extend motifs. Includes guidance on targeting chord tones, using altered dominants and substitute dominants, and ideas for returning to the original key so you can apply the methods to your own compositions.
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