Re: What's the relation****p between scales and chords?

LJS wrote:
> On Feb 26, 5:52 pm, Joey Goldstein <nos...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>> Tom K. wrote:
>>> "Joey Goldstein" <nos...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message
>>> news:fq2781$pul$1@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>>>> Tom K. wrote:
>>>>> Using II for supertonic hasn't been done for nearly forty years.
>>>> On the contrary. Most jazz harmony books use upper case Roman
numerals for
>>>> all chords.
>>>> We don't write simply "ii" or "ii7". We write "IIm" and/or "IIm7".
>>> Really?  Seems like an out of round re-invention of the wheel to me.
>>> Tom K.
>> Just used to add clarity.
>>
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> 
> how so? if the ii means minor then one might think that the 'm' might
> refer to the extention  as in a Vm7 
( is that the way to write a minor
> dominant or is is a dominant 7th?  maybe the use of VM(-7)(-9) would
> clear up the confusion caused by a conventional  V-9 symbol.
> LJS

To a novice "ii" might mean anything.
To a novice already used to reading chord symbols "IIm" is easy to grasp.
"Vm7" obviously would be a min7 chord with root on the dominant of the
key.



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