“I Love You” is a song written by Cole Porter in 1944 for his stage musical Mexican Hayride.
This ABCD form has melody that starts with this wide interval of a major 7 and a minor II V with a major resolution. The second section has a very unusual modulation to the III.
This lesson includes an etude with the 4 levels of improvisation, in-depth analysis of the melody, harmony and chords scales, different improvisation techniques.
Video lessons:
Lyrics:
I love you,
Hums an April breeze,
I love you,
Echo the hills!
I love you,
The golden dawn agrees,
As once more she sees,
Daffodils!
It’s spring again,
And birds on the wing again,
Start to sing again,
The old melodies!
I love you,
That’s the Song of Songs,
And it all belongs,
To you and me
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9 comments on “I Love You”
I’m practicing one of the II V I phrases in all 12 keys in the major thirds cycle:
Salut,
Voici un lien youtube vers ma version de l’exercice proposé par Alex sur ce thème avec les 4 niveaux d’impro.
A bientôt,
Julien
I could not help but notice that at the beginning of Dexter’s solo, on the ii-V-I he uses a line that is, I believe made of a diatonic chord scales – bare with me as I do not have the most accurate set of ears….
In Love For Sale on the album GO! also recorded some time in 1962, there is a series of ii-V-I where he uses almost the exact same patten, sticking to a diatonic chord scale approach
Is the master of quotes quoting himself? Well at least there are lots of communality between the lines he plays on this video of “I love you” and the language used on the album “GO”.
Hi Marco! For sure he plays “similar” melodic lines, that’s what defines a musical personality. We use the same ideas but we never repeat verbatim a phrase. I would suggest you transcribe these two phrases and see exactly how they are similar and different!
Here are the two phrases. In “Love for sale” there is a series or two ii-V-I in Bb where Dexter stays very diatonic using mostly a Bb dominant bebop scale aiming loosely what seems to be the minor 3rd on the ii , the Major/minor 7th on the V and the 5ft on the I chord. In “I Love You” after noodling on ideas around the 7th intervals he comes to a ii-V-I where at the beginning he uses the idea of the first ii-V from Love For Sale to then resolve to the I using the idea from the resolution of the second ii-V-I phrase.
Here is my transcription of the two phrases: https://photos.app.goo.gl/DvBPak2NWMVKfRnu8
I really need to force myself to do this more often, that was painful, a sure sign I need to work on my ear training and transcription skills!
Cheers,
Marco
Oups, I mean a dominant bebop scale derived from the V of the ii-V-I, F in Love for Sale, D in I love You.
Great! Thanks for this golden video
For the sax players, here is a 1962 live video recording at Jazzhus Montmartre in København. Dexter Gordon on tenor, Lars Gullin on bari and Sahib Shihab on alto and flute.
Thanks Marco, that’s a great version! Sahib Shihab was a very singular voice!