022 Bach Prelude No 1 (Ave Maria)

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MARKER: Lots of 'ornaments' on melody notes
MARKER: Melody is harmonised with notes a 10th below
MARKER: In tempo - improv begins
MARKER: Lhand plays more or less regular pattern - 'and 1 and, and 3 and';
MARKER: On Cdim, a whole half dim scale stars on A
MARKER: On Bbdim, a dim scale (whole/half) LH plays a minor 3rd below
MARKER: Figure on Gm uses notes of Gm triad with upper and lower neighbors
MARKER: A common lick on Maj9th chords - basically inversions of chord arpeggiated
MARKER: On B dim, chromatic from B up to F - a tritone away
MARKER: On Fm, patterns from Fm arpeggios
MARKER: On C7, chord tones are sometimes connected to each other via a chromatic scale
MARKER: On C7sus, a Gm pentatonic scale with damper pedal down
MARKER: On Fdim/C again a mixture of chord tones with some connected chromatically
MARKER: On this C7, a Half whole diminished scale
MARKER: Runs like this arrive on the target note (F) right on the downbeat
MARKER: On Dm , the figure begins with the 5th (A) surrounded then continues using triad tones
MARKER: Again some G7 notes are 'surrounded' to start the figure
MARKER: then an arpeggio finishes the phrase
MARKER: Here, diatonic upper neighbors precede  triad chord tones
MARKER: On this figure, lower neighbors of chord tones are chromatic
MARKER: Nice little figure based on Bb Dim (whole/half) scale
MARKER: Again triad with upper and lower neighbor tones
MARKER: On F9, an easy run - Eb(3),G(5),Eb(3),C(2),A(1),Ab(3),G(1),Gb(3),F(2),E(1) etc
MARKER: On BbMaj9, chord tones are connected chromatically
MARKER: Gm pentatonic again
MARKER: G/Ab, Bb/B, Db/D
MARKER: Bb triad, with lower (chromatic) neighbor tones
MARKER: Ascending C dim (whole half) scale on C7
MARKER: On G7, again lower chromaric neighbors target chord tones
MARKER: 2 hands a minor 3rd apart play dim scale on Bbdim

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