Autumn Leaves

[SmoothOperator]

What are some other songs with a similar chord progression. There are lots with that diatonic descending fifths I am sure. One such that I have seen is "I Will Survive", though I am not particularly interesting playing that one.

[jtizzle]

All The Things You Are

[BigDaddyLoveHandles]

Do you know Michael Franks (Popsicle Toes)? Yeah, smooth jazz guy. He has a song called "Down in Brazil" that rides the ii-V-I train all the way 'round the mountain:

//: A MA7 / A MA7 / Am7 / D7 /

G MA7 / G MA7 / Gm7 / C7 /

F MA7 / F MA7 / Fm7 / Bb7 /

EbMA7 / EbMA7 / Ebm7 / Ab7 /

DbMA7 / DbMA7 / Dbm7 / Gb7 /

B MA7 / B MA7 / Bm7 / E7 ://

[setemupjoe]

The changes to I Will Survive are almost identical to Fly Me To The Moon. Also The Shadow Of Your Smile is similar to Autumn Leaves in that it uses the II-V-I in the major key and relative minor.

[SmoothOperator]

Originally Posted by setemupjoe

The changes to I Will Survive are almost identical to Fly Me To The Moon. Also The Shadow Of Your Smile is similar to Autumn Leaves in that it uses the II-V-I in the major key and relative minor.

I had to look that up, nailed it . One of the distinctive parts of Autumn Leaves is the iiv7b5, which Fly Me to the Moon Also has, must be one of my favorite melodies. Dang.

[RAQ]

Ukulele Orchestra of GB Fly Me of the Handel - YouTube

RAQ

[pauln]

I've just spent the last 30 minutes looking and can't find it, but there is a site that has ALL of the progressions for ALL of the standards arraigned in order by the chord progression numbering system. The progressions are ordered as in a dictionary. For each distinct progression it lists all the standards that use it. A standard title may be searched to identify a progression, then find all similar standards.
Maybe someone who knows of it can link to it, it is very helpful.

[newsense]

Originally Posted by RAQ

Ukulele Orchestra of GB Fly Me of the Handel - YouTube

RAQ

RAQ - thanks for that - a brilliant arrangement, but I've just wasted (?) my Sunday morning watching all the UOGB videos on YouTube !

[Creety22]

Chord progressions are a succession of chords played one after another and during a specified duration. On this page you can find the most popular chord progressions in jazz, provides you a list of songs that use similar chord progressions and the jazz guitarists who recorded these songs.

It's important that you learn to recognize these classic chord progressions and that you practice improvising over them, so fire up Band in a Box, type in the chords and get those fingers going!
1) IIm7 V7 | Imaj7
Dm7 G7 | Cmaj7

This is without any doubt the most popular chord progression in jazz. I'm not going to give you a list with songs that use this progression, since a jazz standard without a II V I is almost unthinkable. Some jazz standard chord progressions are nothing more then a series of II V's.



2) Imaj7 VIm7 | IIm7 V7 | IIIm7 VI7 | IIm7 V7
Cmaj7 Am7 | Dm7 G7 | Em7 A7 | Dm7 G7

This chord progression is the first A of a 'rhythm changes'. 'Rhythm changes' are a kind of chord progression that use the same chord changes as 'I've Got Rhythm', a song written by Gershwin in 1930. People started using this progression to jam on and so many different melodies came into being that use the same chord changes.

[SmoothOperator]

Originally Posted by Creety22

On this page you can find the most popular chord progressions in jazz, provides you a list of songs that use similar chord progressions

Which page?

[JakeAcci]

Originally Posted by pauln

I've just spent the last 30 minutes looking and can't find it, but there is a site that has ALL of the progressions for ALL of the standards arraigned in order by the chord progression numbering system. The progressions are ordered as in a dictionary. For each distinct progression it lists all the standards that use it. A standard title may be searched to identify a progression, then find all similar standards.
Maybe someone who knows of it can link to it, it is very helpful.

The Tonal Centers Page

[SmoothOperator]

Thanks!

That is the best site ever! !!

No if I can just figure out how to use it too look up chords. Fortunately I can google it for now.

[Larry Feldman]

The Santana tune Europa is pretty close to Autumn Leaves, not 100 percent but close.

[Larry Feldman]

That Tonal Centers page is pretty cool. Thanks for sharing it.