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Yes, I like to know the song's original chord changes so I can understand what Galbraith did with it - what he may have altered or reharmonized. Learning the arrangement without understanding its harmonic structure is kind of a dead end.
Originally Posted by sully75
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11-15-2025 04:29 PM
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Nice! I like what you did with it. Originally Posted by sully75
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I’m feeling good about IASM and hope to post my audio by the end of the week.
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I always hesitate to say what I plan to do... too much "life" happens. But I really have always wanted to try the "Here's that Rainy Day" arrangement. It seems to owe quite a bit to Joe Pass' performance on Virtuoso.
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I just spent some time trying to record In a Sentimental Mood. Originally Posted by Rscudder58
I thought I knew it but it was clam city!
That red light is not my friend.
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Yes, to quote John Lennon, "life is what happens when you're busy making other plans." Originally Posted by lawson-stone
I've been playing Galbraith's arrangement of When Sunny Gets Blue, which like Rainy Day, is a song we covered in the Jeff Arnold chord melody book study group. It's only one page long and believe it or not, simpler than Arnold's arrangement - mostly anyway.
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My take on Barry Galbraith's arrangement of When Sunny Gets Blue, only my last chord is different. It is: G^9 | 3-5-4-0-0-5 |
When Sunny Gets Blue (Galbraith) - Box.com
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I finally finished up with In a Sentimental Mood. Of course not a perfect take, but I'm getting sick of practicing this and it's time to move on to another tune.
The only conscious changes I made to the arrangement were to resolve the first section on a g melody note instead of f, and I omitted the low c note from the last chord. I was finding that last chord hard to grab, and I didn't want to get a clean take and f#k up the last chord! I do like the way the chord sounds as written though.
Here is my shot at it:
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The final chord is not difficult to get to if you play it: 1st finger/6th string (F), 3rd finger/5th string (C), and bar the 4th and 3rd strings with your second finger (E & A). No strings to mute so you can quickly plop your hand down on it.
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Next up for me is Imagination. The arrangement looks easier than IASM. ( Less to learn as the first six bars of all three A sections are repeats.) I have played this tune before in a combo setting with a singer quite a few years ago so that should help me out.
It would be great if anyone else wants to join in and post their playing on Imagination. I know Mick and Question have already done the tune but hopefully some others out there will chime in as well. The more the merrier! If you are working on this stuff but having trouble getting an entire performance presentable, post a section at a time, or give us a progress report.
Hope to have something in a few weeks!
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You have the Mel Bay book so the attached won't be of use to you, but since I went to the trouble of writing out the tab for this arrangement, I may as well share it. It's attached. If there are any errors in it, please let me know. I don't recall if I changed anything - oh yes, I added an ending, Barry didn't write one. Originally Posted by alpop
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Yup, I will be working out of the book. Some differences of note (pun intended) between the book and your down load: Originally Posted by Mick-7
bar 8: the chord on the first beat has an F natural in the middle making it a D minor not a D7
bar 16: the chord on the and of 4 has an E natural as it's lowest note in place of the G# making that chord an Emi7 not an E9
bar 17: the lowest note on the first chord is down an octave, and the melody note on the and of 2 is E natural rather than D natural
bar18: the first chord on beat 1 doesn't have an F in it. Instead, the low Ab is played on the first beat making the chord an Eb triad over an Ab bass note.
bar 19: the chord on beat 3 doesn't have that A natural in the middle it is just 2 notes. Low Bb and D melody note. (The Bb is sustained for two beats under the melody.)
Some other minor timing things and some chords named differently, but nothing really worth mentioning.
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Thank you for all that, but I'm pretty sure those are changes I made to compensate for playing with a pick and/or because I preferred them (like changing Dm7 to D7), I'll have to check. I didn't try to write the rhythms correctly, that takes too much time in Guitar Pro, just the pitches. Originally Posted by alpop
"bar 16: the chord on the and of 4 has an E natural as it's lowest note in place of the G# making that chord an Emi7 not an E9"
Yes, that was intentional, to play the 8th notes chordal passage more easily (it's pretty fast at the prescribed tempo), and it sounds good to me.
"bar 17: the lowest note on the first chord is down an octave, and the melody note on the and of 2 is E natural rather than D natural"
Yes, playing the A note down an octave would be a major 7th leap down from the preceding G# in the bass - yuck! The note D is an error, should be E as you said.
"bar18: the first chord on beat 1 doesn't have an F in it. Instead, the low Ab is played on the first beat making the chord an Eb triad over an Ab bass note."
Again, you must get to that chord quickly because it's preceded by two 8th notes farther up the fretboard, adding the F helps. But as you said, Ab^13 is an inaccurate name because the chord contains no 3rd.
My other changes were intentional. If I can make a change that makes the arrangement easier to play, or is how I'd normally play a chord or whatever, I'll do it. Otherwise I'll have to spend too much time learning an arrangement and it will be counter-productive. I avoid spending more than an hour or so on any arrangement.Last edited by Mick-7; 11-22-2025 at 08:19 PM.
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Here's Barry G's arrangement of She's Funny That Way from the pdf (it's not in the Mel Bay books). I simplified his first few chords in the bridge, don't think I could play his chords as written at that tempo.
She's Funny That Way @ Box.com
On what planet the second chord below (1st measure of the tune) is a C- add9 I don't know, I'd call it F9b5/A (A-Eb-G-B) but it sounds like it fits.
Last edited by Mick-7; 12-11-2025 at 02:32 PM.
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Great recording and vids everyone!
Are you accepting stowaways in this study group?
I am returning to playing after several years away and gonna force myself to learn some of these arrangements.
Here's my run at Darn That Dream; I mostly kept it rigid to the ink, no embellishments, as a starting point.
I couldn't bring myself to play that G11 chord in the bridge, so I changed the B to Bb for a Gmi11.
Feedback welcomed. thanks and I look forward to working together on some of these.
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"I couldn't bring myself to play that G11 chord in the bridge, so I changed the B to Bb for a Gmi11." Originally Posted by mikeSF
That's an error, it is a Bb, i.e., Gm11 | x-10-10-10-11-10 |
Thanks for sharing.
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I just read through the thread and that I am not perceived to jump ahead in class, I'll too learn this tune (LNWW) and post my recording, hopefully this weekend if i can whip something reasonable up. I am not familiar with the tune yet.
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Here's my contribution of Last Night. Well, that tune is beautiful and I really enjoyed learning Barry's arrangement. I pretty much tried to stick to the ink, but saw an earlier post where someone showed a snip of the TAB for the last 4 bars and I was taken by the false fingering technique indicated therein. Not sure if Barry actually did that, or if it was a fanciful re-telling after some refinements, but I decided to play with that a bit, just for fun.
I alternated open and fretted E notes where I could to achieve the effect.
Last edited by mikeSF; 12-19-2025 at 02:51 PM.
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mikeSF, Does your guitar have nylon strings on it?
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No, just nickel wound Thomastik roundwounds, why?
Originally Posted by Mick-7
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Just sounded like nylon to me.... Originally Posted by mikeSF
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Oh, I got you. I rolled the tone control down, knowing I was mixing some acoustic sound from the front mic. And I only put a tiny bit of that in so you can just hear the articulation but not too clicky and bright.
Last edited by mikeSF; 12-20-2025 at 09:35 AM.
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I've chosen my next Galbraith arrangement but it isn't in the "42 Chord Melody Arr" book. Does anyone have a sheet for "Ive Grown Accustomed To Her Face"? Thanks.
Also, I didn't find it in a search, but curious if Barry ever did "Over The Rainbow".
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"Ive Grown Accustomed To Her Face" is in the Mel Bay Volume 2 book, I've sent you a link to it. I have not seen an arrangement of Over the Rainbow by Barry. Originally Posted by mikeSF
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Cool, thx.
And then I remembered the Barney Kessel video on YT where he plays this song spectacularly. While I'm learning the Barry version, I decided to transcribe the Barney too and compare them. Barney likes his thumb over the top of the neck, which has already appeared 4 times and I've only just begun..
Last edited by mikeSF; 12-21-2025 at 02:04 PM.
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