Ideas for final 8 bars of ATTYA

[CliffR]

I noted down several George Benson licks from my study of All The Things You Are. Since then I've been playing through various changes across all the tunes I'm currently working on. Here I try a few combinations for the final 8 bars of the tune. I'm mostly focussing on the first 4 of those last 8 bars. The final bit in the first two examples is something I came up with just to end the phrases. In the third example, the final bit is another line from George. The final one uses a descending scale with an octave leap early on. This means that it 'wraps around' quite nicely so that it can be repeated through the descending chords.

[kris]

Nice lines and nice jazz sound!

[CliffR]

Nice lines and nice jazz sound!

Thanks Kris! Much appreciated!

[PMB]

Good stuff there, Cliff.

Btw, I've never seen it mentioned before but every alternate bar in the last 12 measures of ATTYA outlines a series of descending chords from the 6th degree:

Fm7 Bbm7 Eb7 Abmaj7 Dbmaj7 Gb7 Cm7 Bo7 Bbm7 Eb7 Abmaj7 (Gm7b5 C7b9).

Also, for any newbies out there trying to remember the path of transpositions in ATTYA, notice that the roots of the first four keys in ATTYA form a major 7th of the home key:

Abmaj7 Cmaj7 Ebmaj7 Gmaj7.

Jerome Kern was a pretty crafty guy!

[CliffR]

Good stuff there, Cliff.

Btw, I've never seen it mentioned before but every alternate bar in the last 12 measures of ATTYA outlines a series of descending chords from the 6th degree:

Fm7 Bbm7 Eb7 Abmaj7 Dbmaj7 Gb7 Cm7 Bo7 Bbm7 Eb7 Abmaj7 (Gm7b5 C7b9).

Also, for any newbies out there trying to remember the path of transpositions in ATTYA, notice that the roots of the first four keys in ATTYA form a major 7th of the home key:

Abmaj7 Cmaj7 Ebmaj7 Gmaj7.

Jerome Kern was a pretty crafty guy!

Thanks!

And.... mind blown!

[marcwhy]

Hey, I'm impressed with anyone who's willing to share their playing here -- thanks, Cliff!

I liked the third line the best!

It's a cool/helpful exercise (IMO) to "compose" lines like that, and then see what happens with them in a performance! Great work!

Marc

[CliffR]

Hey, I'm impressed with anyone who's willing to share their playing here -- thanks, Cliff!

I liked the third line the best!

It's a cool/helpful exercise (IMO) to "compose" lines like that, and then see what happens with them in a performance! Great work!

Marc

Thanks Marc! Yeah, I try and set aside a bit of time during my practice sessions to do this sort of line composition. Hopefully some of it rubs off to help with in-situ composition!