Hi !
Great lesson today and kudos to Alex from Brazil for jumping in the hot seat and trying the exercises!
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Lyrics:
You are the promised kiss of springtimeThat makes the lonely winter seem long.You are the breathless hush of eveningThat trembles on the brink of a lovely song.You are the angel glow that lights a star,The dearest things I know are what you are.Some day my happy arms will hold you,And some day I’ll know that moment divine,When all the things you are, are mine!
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19 comments on “All The Things You Are”
Here is Larry’s version 🙂
Here is a great solo by Alain Verry!
and here is a bass line he wrote, nice job 🙂
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Phxa15FX73n7bh1xrziRB0-iTwnCjo60/view?usp=sharing
Many thanks Alex.
I think our pianist may have played C7#5 in bar 24 which I think would be OK but I’m not sure, so I will check on that, and be more aware about using the whole tone scale.
Gerry Smith
Hello Alex,
I was wondering if you could comment on the origin and harmony of the 8 bar intro that seems to appear with the versions from Charlie Parker ( both in All the Things you are and in Birds Of Paradise) . In Eb the chords go; Bb-7 2 bars, A7 2 bars, repeat just before the start of the initial A section. Was this an intro specifically written by Parker and that most bebob players just continued using ever since? It has that really cool melodic line going b6-5-1 over each chord…
Up tempo swing:
Improvisation with the 2-3 clave:
Practicing the open triads
FYI: the Bb bass line PDF is a copy of the Eb.
Hey Noah Osnos! actually it’s not, it does say e-flat instrument though, but it is the correct key for b-flat instruments, sorry about that.
OI veh. Shows how much attention I am paying. My fault. Onward.
Rubato:
Just for fun, I practiced the melody in BMaj (for alto)
Thank you Pedro Gunther for pointing out an error in the PDF:
in bar 11, the target note should be a half step above. A D natural in concert key, a B natural in E-flat and a E natural in B-flat.
Matteo
Another question, under the B°7 the melody is G and in the scale of F7 H/W its a Gb. Is it possible to use instead a F7 whole tone scale?
Hi Alex, just a remark for the harminic analysis, if you say Db7 in 5 bar instead of Dbmaj7 it could be also the Tritonic sub of G7. I have listened to several versions where it is not very clear…
Hey Pierre Gros, in that bar, it really is a major 7 chord, a dominant 7 is a complete different nature, which you could use over G7.