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09-12-2011, 04:35 PM
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| |  Songs with similar chords as Summertime
Are there any songs with the same or similar chords and form as summertime?
It is such a catchy tune, I am sure there are some. |
09-12-2011, 04:39 PM
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Four On Six. |
09-12-2011, 05:16 PM
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Black Orpheus |
09-12-2011, 05:58 PM
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Which changes? Code: Gershwin
Am7 Bb7b5 Am7
Summertime and the living is easy
or Miles Davis
Am7 Bm7 Cmaj7 Bm7 Am7
Summertime and the living is easy
or this common one
Am7 Bm7b5 E7b9 Am7
Summertime and the living is easy
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09-12-2011, 06:20 PM
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Originally Posted by SmoothOperator  Are there any songs with the same or similar chords and form as summertime?
It is such a catchy tune, I am sure there are some. |
Moon Dance kinda. |
09-13-2011, 07:31 AM
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Originally Posted by John Link Moon Dance kinda. | Or Midnight Blue, as it's better known  . |
09-13-2011, 12:44 PM
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Originally Posted by fep Which changes? Code: Gershwin
Am7 Bb7b5 Am7
Summertime and the living is easy
or Miles Davis
Am7 Bm7 Cmaj7 Bm7 Am7
Summertime and the living is easy
or this common one
Am7 Bm7b5 E7b9 Am7
Summertime and the living is easy
| It turns out to be problem for this tune doesn't it?
Isn't Bb7 add b5 pretty close to E7b9? |
09-15-2011, 05:45 AM
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John Carisi's "Israel", as recorded by Miles, Bill Evans etc |
09-15-2011, 08:39 AM
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Summertime is essentially a 16bar minor blues so most Minor Blues will share similar changes. Also tunes like Yesterdays, Beautiful Love (to a lesser extent), Dear Old Stockholm, nature boy all have a similar vibe harmonically. |
09-15-2011, 10:17 AM
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Originally Posted by Jake Hanlon Summertime is essentially a 16bar minor blues so most Minor Blues will share similar changes. Also tunes like Yesterdays, Beautiful Love (to a lesser extent), Dear Old Stockholm, nature boy all have a similar vibe harmonically. | It does sound awful minor bluesy, I would like to see how the progression is lifted from the 16-bar minor blues though. |
09-15-2011, 10:53 AM
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Originally Posted by SmoothOperator It does sound awful minor bluesy, I would like to see how the progression is lifted from the 16-bar minor blues though. | Is there such a thing as a standard 16-bar minor blues progression? But I agree, it's minor and sounds bluesy, but it's not a "blues". |
09-15-2011, 11:06 AM
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Blues progressions essentially deal with a I IV to the V or some other sort of cycle back to the tonic chord which at some point visits a Dominant function if only for a fleeting moment.. The 12 bar blues is the most common, since blues are major or minor you can have 8 or 16 bar blues, you can also have 32 bar blues or the semi-popular AABA blues with a bridge.
Summertime moves from a tonic Minor to it's minor iv chord then makes is way back through various little tricks back to the tonic minor. Perhaps not a true blues progression however it only highlites the fact that be Blues itself is more about a sense of mood and style rather then a harmonic or formal concept. |
09-20-2011, 02:25 AM
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Originally Posted by Jake Hanlon Summertime is essentially a 16bar minor blues so most Minor Blues will share similar changes. Also tunes like Yesterdays, Beautiful Love (to a lesser extent), Dear Old Stockholm, nature boy all have a similar vibe harmonically. | Summertime is very close to Dear Old Stockholm.
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