Descending (or Ascending) Triads

[Menacewarf]

In Monk songs like "Well You Needn't," or "Epistrophy," their are runs of Dominant 7th chords descending and ascending by half step.
The three most compact ways of voicing a triad (forget the 7th for now) all involve a shift.

What I'm hoping some of you Ole Pro's can offer me is a few different perspectives or aproaches on such progressions.

A few examples I can think of are...
1. Forget the third
2. Voice the triad in the direction of the progression (ascending for ascending and descending for descending)
3. Alternating Inversions (R,3 - 3,R - R,3 - 3, R)

Gotta have perspective...

[Aaron Saunders]

I'm curious as to what you mean. I'm pretty sure you're referring to the A7 Bb7/B7 Bb7/A7 Ab7/G7 Gb7 of the bridge, but I'm not really sure what you're asking.

Are you talking about playing a triad over each chord, or arpeggiating each one as some sort of exercise?

Are you talking about walking? It might be a neat idea to do a sort of rhythmic modulation thing and play quarter note triplets to outline the chords using inversions if that's what you're referring to.