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02-21-2011, 03:04 AM
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| |  Up a Lazy River - anybody got a lead sheet?
I thought I had every fake book known to man, but I cannot find Up a Lazy River! The Hoagy Charmichael (I think) tune, which I *LOVE* but just realized I can't get through with certainty. Anybody got it, help! kojo.27 -at- gmail.com - or post here, whatever. I'm desperate. : ) |
02-21-2011, 04:22 AM
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02-21-2011, 09:59 AM
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It's in the Real Book, Vol 1. Take off "Up a" and just look up "Lazy River". |
02-21-2011, 06:44 PM
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| |  Thanks, guys....
Thanks a million, all of you. This tune should make a good fingerstyle piece. Thanks for all the cool links - this forum is proving invaluable. 
Kojo |
02-23-2011, 07:09 AM
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If you work something up on this tune, share it with us in the chord melody thread. This is one I have played through some as a chord-melody, and it can be a beast. |
02-23-2011, 05:08 PM
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Originally Posted by matt.guitarteacher  If you work something up on this tune, share it with us in the chord melody thread. This is one I have played through some as a chord-melody, and it can be a beast. | Will do! Of course I'd love to see anything you might want to share. /// And yes - you're right: it's a beast of a tune. Melody's all over the place.
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02-24-2011, 08:34 AM
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I found a good set of chords in one of the Hal Leonard Real Books and I've been playing that song all day. I think the difficulty in doing a CM is that all the interesting melody movement is in eighth notes and a lot of it is chromatic. Simply moving the chord shapes chromatically just doesn't sound that exciting.
I think it would be a great song for Ragtime fingerpicking. |
02-24-2011, 10:48 PM
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Well, this thread got me playing Lazy River. Here’s what I have kind of worked out the last couple of days. Really basic chord voicings and not so great audio. It’s not really jazzy, but I enjoy playing it (This strat-style guitar just takes over and I end up playing it in a different style). I need to memorize it and learn to really play it. At the end, after a ridiculous pause, I play an alternate voicing for measure 5.
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02-25-2011, 06:56 AM
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Nice playing. I think the tone's fine. I still think the eighth notes in the meoldy make it difficult to reharmonize - the opening bar is a good example. There isn't enough time for the harmonization to sink in (from a listener's perspective) so there isn't a strong contrast from one melody note to the next.
One variation I tried today was playing it as a medley with Chatanooga Choo Choo - the interchanges between songs are seamless. If you play it at your tempo on the vid, it also works as a mash-up with Someone to Watch Over Me. |
02-25-2011, 09:56 AM
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Probably not with eighth notes, but I'm not a big chord-per-melody-note fan anyway especially with a tune like this. I can definitely "hear" a quarter note reharm and there are a few simple eighth note moves as well. Maybe we need to do the pick-a-tune-and-work-ideas thing for chord melody/solo guitar. The standard practical tunes are usually going to be less suited to cm treatments. Anyone got a solo arr of bright sized life? :-) |
02-25-2011, 11:03 PM
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(Part 1) "Up The Lazy River" taught by Fred Sokolow I didn't realize Fred sang. He really sounds great. | | Thread Tools | | | | Display Modes |  Linear Mode | 
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