Planing

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Planing is a great way to add to new dimension to a song or piece.
Claude Debussy and Maurice Ravel were the pioneers of this technique.

Take a simple C major diatonic progression:
D minor seventh- ii7, G dominant seventh - V7, C major seventh - Imaj7
Take the same chords and move up or down in chromatic half steps:


Up in tone:
C#m7 to Dm7, F#7 to G7, Bmaj7 to Cmaj7


Down in tone:
Ebm7 to Dm7, Ab7 to G7, C#maj7 to Cmaj7




Also use the same chord chromatically in interval distances:
Cmaj7 to Emaj7
Cmaj7, C#maj7, Dmaj7, Ebmaj7, Emaj7


Also move the same chord by scale movement:
Cmaj7 to Fmaj7
Cmaj7, Dmaj7, Emaj7, Fmaj7


Also using this same idea and move by minor third intervals:
Cmaj7 to Cmaj7 octave:
Cmaj7, Ebmaj7, F#maj7, Amaj7, Cmaj7.


Also use this same idea and move in whole tone or whole step intervals:
Cmaj7 to Cmaj7 octave above
Dmaj7, Emaj7, F#maj7, Abmaj7, Bbmaj7, Cmaj7.


Also do descending:
Cmaj7 to Cmaj7 octave below
Cmaj7, Bbmaj7, Abmaj7, F#maj7, Emaj7, Dmaj7, Cmaj7.


Also major pentatonic ascending:
Cmaj7 to Cmaj7 octave
Cmaj7, Dmaj7, Emaj7, Gmaj7, Amaj7, Cmaj7.


Also major pentatonic descending:
Cmaj7 to Cmaj7 octave below:
Cmaj7, Amj7, Gmaj7,Emaj7, Dmaj7, Cmaj7.


Notice that the same note relationship (shape) stays the same.










Now transpose these to each position (register) of your instrument, then to all 15 keys.





















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