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vadimwit c08b334bad feat(kb): intermediate progressions + level tags for jazz, gospel, rnb (task P-20)
6 new level:'intermediate' progressions (tritone sub, rhythm-changes
bridge, gospel passing-dim walk-up, tonicized amen w/ borrowed iv,
Just-the-Two-of-Us loop, Sir Duke chromatic vi) x 2 guitar plays each;
all progressions in the three styles now carry explicit level. KB:
56 progressions / 112 plays. Critic returned once (3 caption theory
misstatements), fixed, PASS on re-gate (voice-leading arithmetic
hand-verified from shape constants).

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-07-08 22:56:58 +01:00

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// Level tags + the two intermediate progressions added by task P-20.
// Intermediate-entry theory verified against: musictheorymanual.com &
// learnjazzstandards.com (Girl from Ipanema tritone sub, ii–♭II7I),
// pianogroove.com (Ipanema harmony/comping analysis), Wikipedia: Rhythm changes
// (bridge = III7VI7II7V7 circle of dominants), docs/progression-repertoire.md §1.
export default [
{
id: 'jazz-251-major',
name: 'iiVI',
rn: ['ii7', 'V7', 'Imaj7'],
degrees: [2, 7, 0],
qualities: ['min7', 'dom7', 'maj7'],
bars: [1, 1, 2],
mode: 'major',
songs: ['All The Things You Are', 'Tune Up — Miles Davis', 'Honeysuckle Rose'],
tip: 'The 7th of each chord resolves down a half-step to the 3rd of the next — that two-note thread is the whole progression.',
level: 'foundation',
},
{
id: 'jazz-251-minor',
name: 'minor iiVi',
rn: ['iiø7', 'V7', 'i7'],
degrees: [2, 7, 0],
qualities: ['half_dim', 'dom7', 'min7'],
bars: [1, 1, 2],
mode: 'minor',
songs: ['Autumn Leaves (bridge)', 'Blue Bossa', 'Beautiful Love'],
tip: 'Same engine as the major iiVI, darker fuel: the ♭5 of the iiø7 is the ♭9 colour waiting to happen on the V7.',
level: 'foundation',
},
{
id: 'jazz-rhythm-a',
name: 'Rhythm changes turnaround',
rn: ['Imaj7', 'vi7', 'ii7', 'V7'],
degrees: [0, 9, 2, 7],
qualities: ['maj7', 'min7', 'min7', 'dom7'],
bars: [1, 1, 1, 1],
mode: 'major',
songs: ['I Got Rhythm — Gershwin', 'Oleo — Sonny Rollins', 'Blue Moon'],
tip: 'A loop, not a line — bar 4 hands you straight back to bar 1. Learn it as one circular shape your hands repeat.',
level: 'foundation',
},
{
id: 'jazz-625',
name: 'viiiVI circle',
rn: ['vi7', 'ii7', 'V7', 'Imaj7'],
degrees: [9, 2, 7, 0],
qualities: ['min7', 'min7', 'dom7', 'maj7'],
bars: [1, 1, 1, 1],
mode: 'major',
songs: ['Fly Me to the Moon', 'Autumn Leaves (A section, relative view)'],
tip: 'Pure circle-of-fifths motion: every root falls a fifth. If you can hear this one, you can predict half the jazz repertoire.',
level: 'foundation',
},
{
id: 'jazz-blues',
name: 'Jazz blues (12-bar)',
rn: ['I7', 'IV7', 'I7', 'I7', 'IV7', 'IV7', 'I7', 'VI7', 'ii7', 'V7', 'I7', 'V7'],
degrees: [0, 5, 0, 0, 5, 5, 0, 9, 2, 7, 0, 7],
qualities: ['dom7', 'dom7', 'dom7', 'dom7', 'dom7', 'dom7', 'dom7', 'dom7', 'min7', 'dom7', 'dom7', 'dom7'],
bars: [1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1],
mode: 'major',
songs: ["Billie's Bounce — Charlie Parker", "Now's the Time — Charlie Parker", 'Tenor Madness — Sonny Rollins'],
tip: 'A 12-bar blues wearing a suit: bars 8-10 swap the plain V-IV for a VI7 → iiV turnaround. Hear bar 8 coming and you sound like a jazz player.',
level: 'foundation',
},
{
id: 'jazz-tritone-sub',
name: 'Tritone-sub cadence (ii–♭II7I)',
rn: ['ii7', '♭II7', 'Imaj7'],
degrees: [2, 1, 0],
qualities: ['min7', 'dom7', 'maj7'],
bars: [1, 1, 2],
mode: 'major',
songs: ['The Girl from Ipanema — Jobim (ii–♭II7I in the A section)', 'standard substitute for any V7 in any tune'],
tip: 'The ♭II7 replaces V7 because they share the same tritone — the 3rd and ♭7 simply trade names. What changes is the bass: 2–♭21, a chromatic slide instead of a fifth-fall. Your old iiV line still works over it.',
level: 'intermediate',
},
{
id: 'jazz-rhythm-bridge',
name: 'Rhythm changes bridge (circle of dominants)',
rn: ['III7', 'VI7', 'II7', 'V7'],
degrees: [4, 9, 2, 7],
qualities: ['dom7', 'dom7', 'dom7', 'dom7'],
bars: [2, 2, 2, 2],
mode: 'major',
songs: ['I Got Rhythm — Gershwin (bridge)', 'Oleo — Sonny Rollins (bridge)', 'Anthropology — Parker/Gillespie (bridge)'],
tip: 'Four dominants, each the V of the next — the bridge leaves home and falls back in fifths until it hands you the A section. Follow the ♭7 of each chord dropping a half step onto the 3rd of the next; that chromatic thread is your solo map.',
level: 'intermediate',
},
]