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Topic: Early Autumn - Fmaj7 Tuning |
Andy Volk
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Posted 23 Sep 2021 4:09 am |
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Since it's early Autumn, here's my arrangment of the gorgeous standard "Early Autumn". This tune by big band arranging genius Ralph Burns (with lyrics by Johnny Mercer) was the song that first brought Stan Getz's beautiful sound to the world's attention.
I took a long run at this tune about six years ago on Weissenborn and, despite my valiant efforts, the bridge completely defeated me. This week I took another shot at it in Fmaj7 tuning which is identical to C6th except string #4 is lowered from G to F.
The original is in the key of Bb. I moved it up to C. Let me know what you think.
Here are two favorite performances of this cinematic gem:
Jo Stafford: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mMzRr9faOR0
Stan Getz: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ofIdAHqNP7o
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Andy Volk
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Rob Fenton
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Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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Posted 25 Sep 2021 12:01 pm
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Hi Andy,
Nice work on this tune!
Here's a way to handle those changes in the Leavitt tuning, if you don't mind repeating the melody note for each quarter note.
I imagine it would be difficult to achieve the downward chromatic nature of the line holding the stable lead notes each over two chords without using pedals or at least some string pulls.
It would be workable in other tunings just playing the lead note and one note beneath by using slants, but might not be so convincing.
I'm going to see what I can come up with in C6th
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Andy Volk
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Boston, MA
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Posted 25 Sep 2021 1:13 pm
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Nice job, Rob! I figured Leavitt or B11th might get closer for that turnaround but I was trying to see if I could stick to Fmaj7. what you came up with sounds good! As you say, hard to get that chromatic movement plus the proper melody notes in a 6-string fixed tuning.
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