Coltrane will sometimes use a bvii7 in measure 5 and 6 of a minor blues instead of a regular iv7, just had a few questions about it to understand it.

How common is it? Why are they interchangeable if theres only one note in common? Do you need to change your approach of that change? Did Coltrane come up with it or is it much older?

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it’s probably a very simple answer but right now i’m soloing over 2 random chords that i choose. I’m using Amajor and D minor.

now i know A is the 5th scale degree of D and D is the fourth scale degree of A but it doesn’t really help or apply to understanding the relationship to each other because it’s not like i’m playing A minor to a D7. they feel like 2 unrelated chords but i know they’re not because they sound too good 😂 can anyone help me understand the relationship they have to each other.

**What I wrote below seems like a logical analysis of “God Was Never on Your Side” by Motörhead (https://youtu.be/bAIt20SWzi0?is=1CKZDhEYyuRkzTKd\*\*

**And yet, when we get that B chord in the chorus, it sounds like a tonic to me. Is this song really in B?**

**D# minor - C# - G# minor - D# minor**
**i - bVII - iv - i**

**B - F# - G# minor - D# minor**
**VI - III - iv - i**

Hey, was wondering if anyone could guide me through the main modulations in the A section of this tune, I'm pretty new to jazz theory and need some assistance with understanding which scales to use when improvising.

My main question is how the Bb7 chord in bar 5 fits in to the piece, and when does the piece switch back to F major.

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I don't play piano. I've got this nice Aebersold volume "Transcribed piano accompaniment from vol 54 Maiden Voyage play-a-long" with the naive hope to play some basics.

Really naive!

Someone could help with interpretation of the three chords from Impressions B section?

I recently started trying to learn and play Caravan but It feels like have to much friction between my fingers and fretboard. Also I it sounds to as clean as the original song.

Hi all, I'm trying to improve my ear and composition by trying to figure out what's happening in this jazz standard from a piano perspective at 0:25-0:39 or so before the descending dominant chords from a piano perspective. I think the chords are Fmin7 - F#7 but I find it hard to identify what exactly is going on. Is it an arpeggio or some type of broken chords being played before the block chords happens. I think the block chords are B7 - Bb7- A7 - Ab7 - G7...

any help would be greatly appreciated as I'm trying to learn what's happening here .

I know that in the major scale, I,III and vi are tonic; ii and IV are subdominant; V and vii° are dominant. What about borrowed chords? I'm guessing iv- is also dominant. How about bIIImaj or #v- ?