TEXT: [email protected] Jessica Williams plays a great solo piano version of this on her Maybeck Hall CD MARKER: First 8 bars played freely MARKER: Using thumb and forefinger to 'drum' on one note - sus pedal down. MARKER: Arpeggio on F7sus - finishing with surround tones of tonic MARKER: D7#11 MARKER: Db9 (b13) MARKER: C9sus4 MARKER: Bb9#11 MARKER: Am7 MARKER: F7sus MARKER: Ascending run is F mixolydian(Bb Maj scale) finishing on 5th (C) after its leading tone (B) MARKER: A/Bb MARKER: BbMaj7 MARKER: Eb7#11 MARKER: Internal voice moves chromatically up from A to the b7th of Eb7 MARKER: Faster tempo MARKER: BbMaj7/F MARKER: Ascending Bbscale in 16th notes MARKER: scale links to 9th of Bbm7 and continues up chromatically to melody note (F) MARKER: Am7 MARKER: Ab7 MARKER: Gm11 MARKER: 'Drumming' on a note and the same note an octave down MARKER: More 'drumming' on two notes MARKER: Descending 8 note run on F7 - easy to finger - G (5) Eb(3),C(2), A(1),Ab(3),G(1),Gb(3),F(1) MARKER: Perfect 4ths with tonic on top MARKER: More 'drum-like' patterns - this time with a repeated upper tone and other scale notes echo below. MARKER: the two melody notes are linnked chromatically MARKER: Series of diatonic 4th chords from BbMaj scale MARKER: On C7+ the altered scale begins on the 3rd MARKER: On Eb7#11, internal line plays from B chromatically down to the 3rd (G) MARKER: Nice voicing on C7 resolving to F 6/9 MARKER: Same thing up a 4th to F7 resolving to Bb 6/9 MARKER: Back to C7 resolving to F 6/9
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