JohnW400 I vi ii V examples

[fep]

John posted notation and tab of a bunch of voicings for a I vi ii V. I think it is some great work that I (we) can learn from. That post was here:

http://www.jazzguitar.be/forum/compi...-voicings.html

I wanted to see it with the chord symbols. So I added them (thanks to John for sending me the Sibelius file)

I've attached John's work with the chord symbols added (by me ).

I'm hoping we can have a group discussion/lesson picking certain examples and analyzing them.

[fep]

I'll get it started... How about the example at measure 19 & 20 - D/C, Eb/A, F/D, G/Ab. There are various ways I could name those chords but I think what I did was the most simple (but perhaps not the most enlightening into what John was thinking?)

I think this is the most creative and far left field of any of the examples. (It also sounds real cool as an intro to Green Dolphin Street).

What was John thinking?

Would this work in with the rest of the band playing a I vi ii V?

How about basing a single line melodic idea on these chords?

[gersdal]

Originally Posted by fep

I'll get it started... How about the example at measure 19 & 20 - D/C, Eb/A, F/D, G/Ab. There are various ways I could name those chords but I think what I did was the most simple (but perhaps not the most enlightening into what John was thinking?)

I'd say its an ok way to name them to illustrate the point of how to use upper structure in embellished voicings, but still I would think of them as substitutions of the original I-vi-ii-V and probably name them:
C6/9#11 - Am7b5b9 - Dm7 - G7b9

It did look a lot more complicated then you naming, tho