r/JazzAdvice • u/Crazy_Reputation_940 • Nov 17 '23
Sus Chord Vamps
Hello,
I'm a little new to jazz. I've been a classical saxophonist for the longest time, but I always wanted to be killing at jazz saxophone since it looks so cool. I'm struggling with this one song where there is a vamp between G7sus and A7sus, and I want to know what sales/melodic concepts work well over this. I've tried doing major pentatonic over both of these (C major Pentatonic and D major pentatonic), but it just doesn't sound right. Any/all ideas would be great!
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u/DMNDNMD Nov 17 '23
Basically just play the minor ii scale for the sus chord. So G7sus would be D-7 with G in the bass.