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I thought I knew the song!

Dr. Cheese

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Mar 3, 2004
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I ran my teacher crazy screwing up Autumn Leaves. He said I was not giving notes their proper value, thus killing the melody. After screwing up longer than I to admit, I finally broke this down line by line and realized I had memorized it wrong, leaving out notes in sections that I think contributed to my screwed timing. I think I have this melody correctly even though I had one hiccup playing this.
 
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I studied that tune also last year. There are a couple of phrasing and double note choices there I don't quite understand. How well do you know the song itself? Can you sing the words to it? Otherwise it's really coming along.

 

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