TEXT: Herbie Hancock TEXT: [email protected] MARKER: In first section, melody is played with Both hands in unison - allowing freedom to re-harmonise the gaps between melody MARKER: Usually played as 4 bars of each of the following - D7sus,F7sus,D7sus,F7sus,Eb7sus,Db7sus,D7sus,F7sus MARKER: Instead of the usual 7sus4 chords, in the 1st chorus, Maj7#5 chords are used MARKER: i.e. as 'slash' chords F#/D for 4bars then A/F for 4 bars MARKER: Melody in unison then chordal stuff in the gap MARKER: Parallel harmony with a 7b9 type voicing shifting with the melody MARKER: Same sort of voicing moves with the melody MARKER: An EbmMaj7 is used here instead of the usual Eb7sus chord MARKER: RH plays Ebm9 arpeggio (looks like GbMaj7) LH plays melody below - kind of Debussy style! MARKER: Instead of Db7sus for 4 bars, this becomes Dbm7 then Gb7sus MARKER: Back to the usual D7sus harmony - can think of this as Cmaj7/D MARKER: Now F7sus ( = Eb/F) MARKER: 3 note fragment of melody moved up in octaves MARKER: More Parallel type harmony - the C/D chord is 'surrounded' by its neighbors - E/D and C#/B MARKER: More similar Parallel harmony using similar chord voicings on neighboring notes MARKER: On Eb chord a minor 7th chord has its 5th shifted up in chromatic steps MARKER: Trio starts - more conventional sus4 harmony - mainly mixolydian melodic lines MARKER: Sus chords move in steps MARKER: 'montuno' like figure MARKER: Left H crosses and plays chords - RH plays melodic line in bass register MARKER: 2 handed chords with some black notes sliding to white notes in RH - for 'bluesy' sound
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