We got another question from Dan. Dan's, I think, a long time open studio follower.

He says, how do you improv over a stagnant sus-cord vamp, like Maiden Voyage?

How do you create voicing movement in the left hand over that stagnant chord?

Yeah, you know, so I always think of like stagnant chords, I mean, susses, I think that there's at least three different kinds.

And as we go through these, we'll probably discover even more.

But I think about like, okay, so Maiden Voyage, you've got, this is what I call like kind

of your real happy, optimistic.

Right?

That's your happy, optimistic suss.

And it's a major suss. I mean, let's be be honest there's either major or minor susses right

i know we're not supposed to say that it's in the jazz police but if you just see d7 sus i'm

thinking it's a it's a it's a seven sus like it's a it's a d7 sus exactly exactly but the whole point

of it is that we're not, we're not revealing that.

Right. We're just, we're occasionally revealing it.

Now we're not doing that.

See this I'm saying, though.

Right. But, but we're also like the dominant, no pun intended, the dominant major sound to me is actually a whole step below.

So you've got D-suts, but it's really C-major 9.

Oh, interesting.

Okay.

Is that so interesting?

You think about it as C-major 9.

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