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    Quote Originally Posted by vance h
    Thanks again, all. And special thanks to Grahambop for introducing me to Maxine Sullivan. I’m definitely going to seek out more of her work. Vance.
    Yes her voice is beautiful on that song, I should also check her out properly.

    I don’t know how I remembered that tune, I knew there was an interesting old minor key song I had heard on the radio years ago, but I couldn’t remember what it was. Then the next morning as soon as I thought about it again, the phrase ‘ribbon bow’ popped into my mind and that was enough for me to find it.

    Strange how the unconscious memory works!

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    Quote Originally Posted by jameslovestal
    I'm confused; aren't the notes of A Dorian, A, B, C, D, E, F# G (since G major is G, A, B, C, D, E, F#).

    What is this "additional Ab"?


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    Well, first, it's usually in Em (but sometimes in Gm).

    Dorian of Em is D maj. That's D E F# G A B C#. That accounts for the whole melody except the D# (from E melodic minor). There's also an A# passing note - see chart. So it's not really 'in Dorian', that's a bit of a stretch :-)

    American songbook melody based on Dorian mode-aleaves-jpg

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    Quote Originally Posted by jameslovestal
    I'm confused; aren't the notes of A Dorian, A, B, C, D, E, F# G (since G major is G, A, B, C, D, E, F#).

    What is this "additional Ab"?


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    American songbook melody based on Dorian mode-screen-shot-2020-09-05-1-49-07-pm-png

    Whoops...my bad. Eb not Ab sorry for the bad night sleep.

    You can play the entire melody in A dorian mapped above with an additional Eb.

    Easy to memorize and transpose too as ii-7 V7 I IV vii-7b5 III7

    That III7 is all you have to remember.