In my last column, we looked at some rhythm and lead approaches to playing over a 12-bar blues progression in the key ... d now like to offer some examples of ways to apply rootless dominant 9th ...

Starting on any note in the key as the root of our chord, we play the next two alternate notes above it in the scale to give us the third and fifth. In G major, starting on G, we get G, B and D to ...

and adding an F (G - B - D - F). A cadence is formed by two chords at the end of a passage of music. Sometimes the final cadence of a piece in a minor key ends with a major chord instead of the ...