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As per the title really.
All the tunes Kong Knows at the moment are medium pace standards. But he fancies a go at a slow tune.
If he is to learn one what would it be? What is the autumn leaves of slow tunes?
Thanks!
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12-27-2022 06:25 AM
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I don't know about the Autumn Leaves of ballads, but All the Things You Are of ballads is Body and Soul.
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Do one of the "my" tunes--My foolish heart, my one and only love, my ideal...
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FWIW, ballad comes from a French verb that means "walking" (usually at a leisurely pace). Indeed, the ballades that I just checked (even Reggiani's rendition of Villon's famous poem la ballade des pendus isn't exactly slow...
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Blue In Green.
By the way, not a lot of people know about this.
Last edited by ragman1; 12-29-2022 at 08:17 PM.
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Thad Jones' "A Child Is Born" is a beautiful ballad in waltz time.
Here's the original:
Here's Bill Evans, Ray Brown & Philly Joe Jones and Kenny Burrell:
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Yesterdays, and I say this for three reasons.
1. Wes Montgomery Trio did it
2. Counterpoint in the melody
3. It's simple enough to learn in a day
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I like "Tenderly".
Frank Vignola does a nice breakdown of it on his youtube channel. Even Santo and Johnny did a nice version with the steel guitar. Might even have to learn that myself one of these days.
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Angel Eyes
You Don’t Know What Love Is
Darn That Dream
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Misty
I've also been working on "what are you doing new years eve".
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When Sunny Gets Blue. Someone else mentioned Body and Soul; The "b" section for both of these songs is similar.
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“Spring can really hang you up the most” is one of my favorites. Here’s Kenny Burrell’s take on it:
Johnny Smith also has a lovely version, but not available on YT.
For vocals, check out Betty Carter:
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King Kong -
So which one have you gone for? We need to know!
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There are a lot of good ballads. I first break them down between sparse melodies and more linear melodies depending on how I want to play. My favorite sparse ballad is Solitude cuz that's my life. :P
After sparse melodies and dense melodies there's also the class of ballads with hella chords where u died like Darn that dream.
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Originally Posted by ragman1
Although I've found time to post a load of crap on this forum last few days but anyway.....
Angling towards Misty, but I was hoping to see more commonality in the ideas, e.g. ' you should learn X, it's the most called ballad at jams'.
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Misty is a nice one and is common.
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Originally Posted by KingKong
Things can only get better
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Ballads:
- slow enough that you get to craft your lines and phrases in expressive ways that are different than the soloing up tempo
- slow enough harmonic tempo that you can easily hear/find additional chords and series of chords
- nice for developing your stand alone or chord melody style playing
- similar to practicing an up tempo tune slowly, except you get to perform it that way, too
- many ballads have greater complexity, offering an abundance of things to explore and learn
- tend to sound beautiful, encouragement/motivation
1936 There Is No Greater Love
1937 My Funny Valentine
1946 Angel Eyes
1953 My One And Only Love
1967 Wave
1972 Let's Stay Together - for when your ear is jazzed out, switch to Al Green for a break
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Originally Posted by KingKong
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Originally Posted by AaronMColeman
How about "Ebb Tide"? Same three opening notes, different melody after that. I prefer it to Misty and am always disappointed when I hear those three notes and it's Misty again.
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Originally Posted by KingKong
How about the greatest jazz ballad of all?
Round Midnight….but in the guitar friendly key of E. Barry Galbraith did it in this key. It i is in his book. Frank Vignola too. PM me and I will send you some sheet music and the TAB if you need it.
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Slow is Isaac Hayes doing "Walk On By."
Last edited by Greentone; 01-11-2023 at 05:32 PM.
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Originally Posted by DawgBone
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Quick question: How slow is slow?
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