Larry Williams synthesizer solo on Spain (I Can Recall)

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I've extracted the following phrase from Larry William's solo (bar 17-22 of transcription above) because it features two interesting points:

1) The use of an upper structure major triad (a major sixth above the root) to improvise over the 13(b9) seventh chord.

2) The use of a major pentatonic (a tritone above the root) to improvise over the altered chord.

Here it is transposed in all keys:

→ view Larry Williams phrase through descending whole tone scale 1 (in B - A - G - F - Eb - C#) (PDF)

→ view Larry Williams phrase through descending whole tone scale 2 (in C - Bb - G# - F# - E - D) (PDF)

Happy sh(r)edding!