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Topic: Similarity of chords to Nightlife intro |
Joachim Kettner
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Posted 26 Dec 2022 3:52 am |
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This must be an old Blues standard. Ive heard this lately again performed by the Allmans:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VEOCxYyHxhs
I figured out the chords:
B/// D/// G//// C/// and back to B.
Very similar to Ray Price's Night Life I think.
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Ian Rae
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Posted 26 Dec 2022 4:27 pm
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It's very common - I - vi - ii - V with tritone substitutions for the vi and ii
So B, G#m, C#m, F# becomes
B, D, G, F# (with 7ths, 9ths or alterations as required)
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Greg Cutshaw
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Corry, PA, USA
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Posted 26 Dec 2022 5:07 pm
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| The intro to San Antonio Rose is the same set of chords played as major chords. Change those chords to the equivalent m7, dom7, maj7 and aug7 (or something with additional notes and its the same progression. |
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Bill Cunningham
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Atlanta, Ga. USA
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Posted 26 Dec 2022 5:32 pm
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Those changes are known as the “Lady Bird turnaround” because they are prominent in the Tadd Dameron bebop jazz classic of the same name.
[url] https://youtu.be/r0vhqDCy9eQ[/url]
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Larry Dering
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Missouri, USA
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Posted 26 Dec 2022 6:22 pm
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| I hear the similar changes as you did. I'm sure it gets used in a lot more music than we know. It's supposed to be from a jazz turn around that dates back in time. |
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Douglas Schuch
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Valencia, Philippines
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Posted 26 Dec 2022 6:39 pm
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And as for the song, "Jelly Jelly", it is an old song by Earl Hines and Billy Eckstein:
https://youtu.be/GUGK_okFzzw
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Joachim Kettner
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Posted 27 Dec 2022 3:03 am
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Those changes are known as the “Lady Bird turnaround” because they are prominent in the Tadd Dameron bebop jazz classic of the same name.
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Sorry Bill, but I don't hear these intervals in Ladybird. Would you put a time signature at where they appear?
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Bill Cunningham
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Posted 27 Dec 2022 4:13 am
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| Joachim Kettner wrote: |
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Those changes are known as the “Lady Bird turnaround” because they are prominent in the Tadd Dameron bebop jazz classic of the same name.
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Sorry Bill, but I don't hear these intervals in Ladybird. Would you put a time signature at where they appear? |
They go by fast in the meter they are playing the head, but listen at 0:18..
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Slim Heilpern
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Posted 27 Dec 2022 6:11 am
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In case this helps, here's the Lady Bird lead sheet (fun tune BTW!). It's the last 2 bars...
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Mike Neer
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NJ
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Posted 28 Dec 2022 4:59 am
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It is a Tadd Dameron turnaround like Bill said. The Night Life chords plain vanilla version would be I-VI-II-V (C-A-D-G) like Ian said.
The art of the turnaround is one of the great little games that jazz musicians play with the harmony. I could probably list quite a few, but one of the fun ones would be to use Coltrane's Giant Steps changes on it, but with a chord on each beat for the first bar and half notes in the second: CMaj7-Eb7-AbMaj7-B7-EMaj7-G7-CMaj7
Or Thelonious Monk would play a descending pattern of dominant chords, one on each quarter note: Ab7-G7-Gb7-F7-E7-Eb7-D7-Db7-C
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Gary Spaeth
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D Schubert
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Columbia, MO, USA
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Posted 23 Feb 2023 2:45 pm
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Some of our local jazz guys call it a Coltrane turnaround
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Fred Treece
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California, USA
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Posted 26 Feb 2023 8:17 am
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| And here I always thought G/F#/F was such a dumb way to get back to E, as in Spencer Davis “I’m A Man”, but it’s another 6-2-5-1 variant with Tritone chord substitutions at 6 and 5. Is it brilliant? Or cheap? |
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