I can't find the music for these songs and was wondering if anyone knew....

[SophieM]

I can't find the music for these songs and was wondering if anyone knew where I could get them or a transcription. Preferably free...

1. Blues for Alice
2. All The Things You Are
3. So What
4. My Funny Valentine
5. There Will Never Be Another You
6. Summertime
7. How Insensitive

[derek]

Google real books. There are pdf versions floating around online, and they have all these tunes in them.

[gcsavareau]

I find alot of basic chord charts at ralphpatt.com.

but then again, as a newbie,i enjoy working out the melodies and solos myself.

[mr. beaumont]

scrap together some cash for a real book. worth every penny.

[priscilo]

Hello:
I have found the most of these tunes in:

http://www.lickbyneck.com/

[Chordwayze]

Originally Posted by SophieM

I can't find the music for these songs and was wondering if anyone knew where I could get them or a transcription. Preferably free...

1. Blues for Alice
2. All The Things You Are
3. So What
4. My Funny Valentine
5. There Will Never Be Another You
6. Summertime
7. How Insensitive

When you do find them, Sophie you might discover a 'secret'. Most of the harmonies will transpose from one song to another. Not always, but often enough. Have I given you a clue?

It's much more satisfying to work out these chords yourself, because if you want to play chord-melody style, you merely start with the basic chord progression and to enrich the solo, you add more chords or arpeggio's etc. If you really get stuck though, I have the 'basic' chords to these songs.

Also, somewhere on this site, there is a link to a free, downloadable Band-in-a-Box 'Real Book'. That's great if you are unsure of a melody, because that too is included in the files. The only snag is, you need Band in a Box to play those files!

Happy Playing
John

[sinister_81]

agreed. You learn much more from figuring it out yourself.

[Sebastian850]

Thanks Priscilo

[Sailor]

I like to get the chords from Songtrellis, free on-line, learn the changes and play along with youtube versions.

I also get lead sheets from freehand music.

There are also a series of books at local libraries called songs of the 20's, 30's, 40's, (Three books) that have almost all the standards in orig keys.

Sailor

[JohnW400]

Ther is a version of All the Things You Are in the Chord Melody section on this site

[DMatthewsBand07]

I'm with Mr. B on this one. Real Books seem expensive at first (29.95 in the store, 20.00 on amazon) but each one has upwards of 300 fake sheets. I know it's not free but you won't have to post on this forum and wait for replies anymore. It's definitely an investment worth looking into. My bedroom flooded recently... I lost my bedsheets, pillow, backpack, guitar CASE (not guitar), and my real book. Can you guess what I was most angry about. Yeah the Real Book. I don't go anywhere without that thing. It's well worth whatever you have to pay for it.

[Jake Hanlon]

real book 30 dollars
metronome 20 dollars
music stand 20 dollars

transcribing them off a reliable recording... priceless

[DMatthewsBand07]

haha... burn. Nice that's definitely true. I've been trying that out with all the Pure Desmond melodies because they're not in my Real Book.

[Jake Hanlon]

I hear you.

The Realbook is a developed part of the Jazz canon now regardless of what the older generation likes about it. People who came up through the music by playing it in the 70's had to do it the same way as the 60's and 50s which was ont he stand or in the living room with a record player. That's how my teachers had to do it. The development of that book out of Berklee was initially a road paved with good intentions until whoever put it together put inaccurate changes in many tunes, incomplete changes, wrong melodies etc etc etc.

For all this time now people who have gone through the schoolin' route (myself included) learned tunes out of these books, it was a uniform way to learn, people now were suddenly playing tunes with the same changes all the time even if they weren't exactly correct they were still playing together. However now all those wonderful tunes not fond in those 3 books were getting lost to the world, and in many many cases people were only using volume 1.

Hal Leonard legalized the material now in the 6th edition and fixed a lot of badly transcribed materials. The 6th book is great and on par with teh Sher New Real Book series and is much cheaper.

When I got to grad school learning tunes out of books was absolutely not allowed with my teacher. I had to learn the tunes off the CD's and write them down and bring them in. This was one or two tunes weekly on top of other etudes and what not. I could use a fake book to check work in some cases. My Improvisation course, had to transcribe the tunes because most of them were not in the basic fake books. Or I'd find a lead sheet off someone in class who had some obscene collection of music.

Point being tunes I transcribed I internalized and had a great connection to. But at the same time I found that I had to learn the real book changes as well, because when I came back home everyone was playing those changes and not the actual changes at hand. Tunes like All Blues.... those aren't the real changes in that 5th edition book. There are subtle differences but it is supposed to be a modal tune, it's on the first modal record... Footprints, the turn around is not the turn around in the old book. Autumn Leaves, no one I know plays that tune in Em, Gm is the most common key. Changes missing in All The Things You Are, wrong melodies on Bop tunes whatever.

Luckily for the OP, if he/she decides to get a real book it will be 6th edition and many of the mistakes are rectified.

[Sailor]

Does anyone else watch original videos, if the exist, for standard material?
There is a great video of joe pass and ella doing cry me a river and you can see where joe is playing and what he's doing a lot of the time. You can also watch ray charles' guitarist over rays shoulder during the whole Georgia vid.

Sailor

[mississippi]

Originally Posted by Sailor

I like to get the chords from Songtrellis, free on-line, learn the changes and play along with youtube versions.

I also get lead sheets from freehand music.

There are also a series of books at local libraries called songs of the 20's, 30's, 40's, (Three books) that have almost all the standards in orig keys.

Sailor

Thanks for telling us about "songtrellis" pretty cool website




mississippi

[Sailor]

Also for basic changes VanillaBook is good, and I just found the section that has a backing track for all their songs; all on-line, all free.

Sailor

[mississippi]

thanks on that vanillabook, looks interesting

[pierre richard]

scribd.com is THE place...angelfire.com/moneychords too...just keep looking and you will be amazed how much is available on the net...time on your instrument...pierre...

[harpwood_gr]

I post here the transcription of SO WHAT as played by Miles Davis in his famous record KIND OF BLUE

[harpwood_gr]

And here I post a transcription of MY FUNNY VALENTINE

[harpwood_gr]

Summertime as played by Wes Montgomery...

[gregh]

Harpwood, thanks! Can you post a PDF of Summertime? The images are way too small to read.

Thanks Again!

[harpwood_gr]

I am new to this forum, so I am not yet familiar with the attachments. I didn't realise (and i do not know why) that the images' resolution were dramatically diminshed...

So I compliled a PDF, with the very same transcription of summertime as above...

I am realy sorry for the inconvenience...

[gregh]

No problem! This is perfect. Thanks!

[Coda]

Originally Posted by mr. beaumont

scrap together some cash for a real book. worth every penny.

......a Real Book is a must have of any Jazz musician..................................even though the cover came off of mine and ive been losing pages for the last 6 months...

[holgit]

Thanks a lot!

[budhale]

Home of the Golden Classics

this is very basic...but has a lot of info....a good place to start...
jmho..........

[mengstrom]

Try a drop-D tuning for So What--play the bass line on the bottom 3 strings, chords on the top 3. Barre the bottom 3 for the Eb-, move everything up one fret. Drives my bassplayer son crazy, because I can double his bass line.

[whippersnapper]

Incase you don't have this one yet....