BookatlasPiano Rabbit Hole: Improvisation Theory & Practice
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26.7Now place C in bass

LH: C.

RH: B → B♭ → A → A♭ → G.

Suddenly you hear several possible tonic-minor colors:

B: maj7

B♭: ♭7

A: 6

A♭: ♭6

G: 5.

This one line walks through a huge portion of minor-color vocabulary.