How Wes Montgomery Uses Tritone Substitutions on The Blues

[@alesitotrip]

great explanation, really easy to follow ! thanks

[@BluesHeavy]

I understand this is more of a Jazz Blues concept however if Im playing a standard Chicago electric blues in theory if the song is a I,iv,V in G I can use the C# mixolydian or C# blues Scale before going into the C (iv) chord? Or do you want to stick to Arpeggios when using substitutions?

[@Mattrace]

Great lesson. At one stage tho you mention a flat minor / d flat. That would be a tritone from g7 but you wouldn’t have been playing g7 then anyway (I think it should have been d7 as d7 is the v of ii ). Anyway, would you mind explaining what the a flat minor / d flat f (leading to c7) is the tritone of? Thanks ❤

[@marbinmusic]

What I’m doing is thinking of the IIminor of that V7 that I’m subbing. So if you need to play over a 2 5 1 in C you’d use Abm7 to Db7 to C instead of Dm7 G7 C

[@Mattrace]

Thank you. So In this sequence you play Abm7/Db7. But what I was/am struggling with is where a g7 would have been played in this progression (if we hadn’t subbed anything). I understand the other subs you explain (going to Bb, and also the one in measure 12 from C back to F)… it’s just the A flat / d flat was the one throwing me!) 😂 Unless , it’s simply that you can approach any dominant chord in a Blues via a 2-5, meaning that if we weren’t doing any tritone subs we could have approached the c7 by playing d-7/g7 first? And that’s how you arrive at Ab-7/Db7.

[@marbinmusic]

@@Mattrace yes exactly. You can have a 251 casance moving to the IV

[@Mattrace]

@@marbinmusic thanks. Keep the content coming 🙏

[@rabinserious1]

מדהים!

[@fannarfreyr3282]

I have a question. On 01:12 you say that the two chord of the B is F#.. but isn't the ii chord of B a C#minor? The F# of B would be the V?

[@marbinmusic]

It’s called a relative Ii chord. The idea is the B is a B7 and you are temporarily in the key of E so F#m is II B7 is V

[@frankgreco]

Yeah, that confused me as well.

[@ernestmaurizi7668]

Great lesson as usual but would translate even better if you are it clean without the distortion and the resulting overtones

[@josepantojaguitar]

You the man

[@marbinmusic]

Hehe

[@MaxLamboy]

hmm, no questions or distractions? Gummies?