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apoodangle
03-12-2005, 05:53 PM
i'm at work so i don't have a fake book handy, i want to show something to a friend of mine and this computer doesn't have Adobe Acrobat on it.

dlloyd
03-12-2005, 06:21 PM
i'm at work so i don't have a fake book handy, i want to show something to a friend of mine and this computer doesn't have Adobe Acrobat on it.

6/8

||:G7-----|G7-----|G7-----|G7-----|
|C7/G-----|C7/G-----|G7-----|G7-----|
|D7+9-----|E7+9--D7+9--|G7-----|G7-----:||

Chris A
03-12-2005, 07:05 PM
6/8

||:G7-----|G7-----|G7-----|G7-----|
|C7/G-----|C7/G-----|G7-----|G7-----|
|D7+9-----|E7+9--D7+9--|G7-----|G7-----:||


it's Eb, not E.


Chris A. :rolleyes: :bassist:

JimK
03-13-2005, 11:41 AM
Regarding Bars 5 & 6-

Here's an excerpt from Kind Of Blue: The Making Of The Miles Davis Masterpiece by Ashley Kahn...

Pg. 142, Jimmy Heath recalls-
"When people play it("All Blues") other than in the Miles Davis band, a lot of people play it where they go from the "G" chord to "C", a traditional Blues. But when we played "All Blues", Miles would always say don't go to the IV chord on the second part of that. He wanted to stay in a modal concept. So he'd go from G7 to a G minor sound, really playing that mode so that his improvisation sounded a little dissonant & a little more sophisticated".


I also recall reading that Miles wanted a Gm & not a Gm7 for bars 5 & 6.

Kahn mentiones that speeding "All Blues" up & add a Latin twist & a "Ray Charles' sound emerges. Play it 4/4 & one can almost hear 'The Twist'".