Oh, Joel. You're going to be sorry you said this. You bring up a question that has always bothered me.
When you say, "guide tones," and then circle notes, it's helpful and I can pretty well follow you.
But in that second bar of "Developed in Improvisation," the F ... how do I know from reading those 2 1/2 bars that THAT'S a guide tone note, if I don't know the tune? Is there some simple rule, like "Guide tones are always the first note of a phrase," or maybe "Guide tones are the ones that are circled"?
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