Working w Lego Bricks

[pamosmusic]

So I’ve been working through Harmony with Lego Bricks, which right now just means listening a lot.

But I’ve started working on tunes that have the Pennies Ending.

So, that’s the last eight of Pennies From Heaven:

ii (or IV) — iv — iii — VI7
ii — V — I turnaround

with some common variations … IV for two, bVII7 for iv, I to bVII in place of iii etc.

The list of tunes I have this change in from my list are …

The regular Pennies Ending

• Pennies From Heaven (last eight)
• All Of Me (last eight)
• Easy To Love (last eight)
• Heartaches (last eight)
• All Of You (last eight)
• It Could Happen To You (B and C sections)
• Night And Day (last eight of the A)
• All the Things (last eight)
• If I Were a Bell (last eight)
• and of course the last eight your typical jazz blues.
• Avalon

Modified Pennies Ending where rather than the last four resolving, we get II7 — ii - V …

• Dewey Square (bridge)
• But Not For Me (B and C)
• There Will Never Be Another You (B section)
• Donna Lee (B section)

Then a quick Pennies ending where we get ii - iv - iii VI - ii V … all in four measures …

• I Remember You (last four of the A)
• Love Walked In (last four of the B)
• Song Is You, The (last four of the A)

Would be very interested to hear other tunes where people have found this progression. This is something I’ve sort of been intellectually aware of and noticed casually, but never really spent much time practicing systematically. It’s been pretty helpful, I think, so I’ve been sorting some tunes out with some other common progressions I’ve found too. I’ll try to keep them going.

[Christian Miller]

Avalon B and last A


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[Christian Miller]

Limehouse blues?


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[pamosmusic]

Limehouse blues?


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Last eight?

[GuyBoden]

All the Things You Are

(Last 8 bars)


|DbM7|Gb7|Cm7|F7|
|Bbm7 |Eb7|AbM7 |Gm7b5 C7|

[GuyBoden]

In a Mellow Tone

Has a Pennie Variant.

They're all in the John Elliot "Insights in Jazz" new(ish) book.

https://dropback.co.uk/wp-content/up...mellowtone.pdf

[pamosmusic]

In a Mellow Tone

Has a Pennie Variant.

They're all in the book.

https://dropback.co.uk/wp-content/up...mellowtone.pdf

which book?

[GuyBoden]

which book?

They're all in the John Elliot "Insights in Jazz" new(ish) book.

Buy Now – Insights In Jazz

Example:
https://dropback.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/inamellowtone.pdf

[pamosmusic]

They're all in the John Elliot "Insights in Jazz" new(ish) book.

Buy Now – Insights In Jazz

Example:
https://dropback.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/inamellowtone.pdf

Ah nice. I ordered it and got an email saying it might be a week.

[GuyBoden]

Ah nice. I ordered it and got an email saying it might be a week.

I have the John Elliot "Insights in Jazz", it's a secure PDF version with strong password protection.

It's a better book than the original Lego Bricks, in my opinion. I have the original too (somewhere).

[pamosmusic]

I have the John Elliot "Insights in Jazz", it's a secure PDF version with strong password protection.

It's a better book than the original Lego Bricks, in my opinion. I have the original too (somewhere).

Interesting!

Well then I can't wait to get it.

[pamosmusic]

Also last eight of If I Were a Bell

[pamosmusic]

I have the John Elliot "Insights in Jazz", it's a secure PDF version with strong password protection.

It's a better book than the original Lego Bricks, in my opinion. I have the original too (somewhere).

just got it in my email

[pamosmusic]

Another one that I've found particularly useful is one that Cork considers a subset of the two-cadence bridge. I've been calling it the Satin Doll Bridge ...

So it's a cadence to IV, then up a third to another cadence. So ...


ii (of four) -- V (of four) --- IV --- IV
vi --- II7 --- ii -- V ---

This is in ...

• Satin Doll bridge
• Sunny Side of the Street bridge
• (basically) A Train bridge
• September in the Rain bridge
• Pennies From Heaven (the B section)
• You Stepped Out of a Dream (the B section)
• I Love You (minor cadence first)
• Honeysuckle Rose

so that's cool.

EDIT: Elliot calls this the Honeysuckle Rose bridge, which …. duh

[Mick-7]

They're all in the John Elliot "Insights in Jazz" new(ish) book

Found this podcast on it, with musical examples -- John Elliott's Insights In Jazz Podcast | Free Podcasts

The author's blog -- John Elliott's Blog – Thoughts about Jazz

[GuyBoden]

Found this podcast on it, with musical examples -- John Elliott's Insights In Jazz Podcast | Free Podcasts

The author's blog -- John Elliott's Blog – Thoughts about Jazz

Edit: Added a bit more links to info about how to use, Harmony with Lego Bricks.

Examples
https://www.cs.hmc.edu/~keller/jazz/...nsolidated.pdf

This might be of interest too. (But, it's a bit old nowadays.)
https://www.cs.hmc.edu/~keller/jazz/impro-visor/Roadmap507.htm

[pamosmusic]

Man, yeah I see what you mean about Insights, Guy.

Ive gotten a ton out of Lego Bricks, especially for teaching. The listening sequence is really fantastic.

But Insights is more immediately practical for myself.

[pamosmusic]

So some others I think might prove useful …

I Could Write a Book Opening

I VI - ii V - I VI - ii V
I ii - iii VI - ii - viio III
vi

• I Could Write a Book
• My Shining Hour (some versions)
• Time After Time
• Bye Bye Blackbird, except the eighth bar is a ii V to the ii chord