40.91The larger arranging insight

We have now transformed simple melodies through:

• reharmonization
• modal harmony
• meter
• bossa
• jazz waltz
• blues
• funk
• pedals
• slash chords
• chromatic bass
• dominant cycles
• rhythmic displacement

This demonstrates something important:

“Style” is not a chord progression.

Style emerges from the interaction of:

rhythm

articulation

voicing

bass

melodic vocabulary

density

form

and harmony.