TEXT: Doug mckenzie TEXT: [email protected] MARKER: I Loves You Porgy version 2 - rubato beginning chorus MARKER: 'Drumming' on melody note - with either fingers 2&3 or 4,3&2 MARKER: 'So What' voicings briefly harmonise melody MARKER: 2 note RH glissando - index and little fingers trail MARKER: Target note is C (3rd of Ab) in RH - while Left plays Ab (Root of Ab7) MARKER: Each note of Gm7 chord connected chromatically MARKER: Delay arrival of the tonic chord - approach it from underneath MARKER: Melody harmonised with alternating drop 2 Am6/E7b9 chords MARKER: Series of altered dominant chords with low pedal note (C) MARKER: On C7sus-combined arpeggios, and chromatic neighbor tones on some chord notes MARKER: Run must arrive on a strong chord tone - here the root of the C7 chord - C MARKER: On turnaround, chords are derived from diminished scale Gb/G, C/Db, Eb/E, A/Bb MARKER: Into tempo MARKER: Phrase uses diatonic notes grouped in 3's - each finishing on a F7 chord tone MARKER: Bluesy phrases over Am MARKER: 'Gospelly' MARKER: The phrasing and interval structure of the last phrase is echoed over new chord MARKER: And echoed again MARKER: Developing a double time sort of feel MARKER: That low 'pedal' tone agin - sustained through quite a few bars MARKER: The BbMaj7 chord is played as A/Bb MARKER: This enables the whole/half dim scale over this Bb chord MARKER: On Dm7 chord, each note of chord is 'surrounded' by diminished chords MARKER: Double feel getting more pronounced MARKER: Drop 2 voicings again MARKER: Pause here before final 8 bars on C7 chord MARKER: Run begins on arpeggio - slowly and quietly - sustain pedal down MARKER: Run continues as F scale - with crescendo and accelerando MARKER: Then it slows - and finishes on target - top C on piano MARKER: Single note glissando on the white notes on Dm7 - resolves to C (3rd of Ab7) MARKER: Tag ending - takes the opening phrase - an arpeggio on Fmaj9 - MARKER: - alternates with chord arpeggios on the dominant - C7sus MARKER: All over a low C pedal tone
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