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    I can only think of one off the top of my head: My Funny Valentine. I know that I have come across a bunch of them, but I can not remember any. Thanks for any help.

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    Idle moments sure does. What Are You Doing the Rest of Your Life? I'm sure I can think of others...

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    Thank you. If you come across a few, I would be grateful. Fist, I want to play something other “Valentine”.

    Great suggestions. Those are now in my list to play. (Idle Moments has to be one of the best albums, and if I remember right Martino did “what are you… “ on his footprints album). FYI, “what…” has the cadence but in the real book, it uses slash chords. My level of theory does not allow for me to know why slash chords instead of the other way. Maybe to make the movement in the bass…

    Second, (again based on memory) every time I come across that cadence it always does the same resolution. I am wondering if there is another approach or use.

    I have much appreciation for you. Again thank you.

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    Stairway to Heaven.

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    Awesome… and thanks.

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    A Taste of Honey, the Beatles version, has the sequence in first four bars of the verses in F#minor. However, the first chord is a minor, not a minor 7
    Not sure about other versions but I think the original has it too.

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    This Masquerade

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    Jean-Pierre ?

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    Don’t you worry ‘bout a thing

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    In a Sentimental Mood by Duke Ellington starts with this progression.

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    Thank you all.

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    Blue Skies
    In Walked Bud

    pretty much anything where the Vi or ii chord sits around for a while can become one of these

    common variation

    Im V+ Im7 IV7

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    Nobody's mentioned my favorite pedantic/overexplaining acronym yet-- CESH!

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    sounds like a disease.

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    Then there are all the songs that have two bars of a minor that absolutely beg for a | m m/M7 | m7 m6 | insert, like Autumn Leaves and Summertime.

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    The way the thread title is written you're asking which songs have min7 minMaj7 min7 min6, but you really meant to ask which ones have min minMaj7 min7 min6 lines in them, correct?

    Anyway, add the bridge of God Bless the Child to the list. Wes's Beaux Arts does it as a counter-melody. And in addition to what Christian and Ragman said, it also works on pretty much any i-IV

    It's all over Latin music as a line cliche, and in derivatives of Latin music, such as Joe Jackson's Cha Cha Loco.

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    (Ecoutez La Musette! Oh, Le Paris...! And the large American tourist bellowed in her best West Texas accent, "Ohh...! Que c'est beau... cette une belle fontaine!!" The lobby fell silent for a twinkling moment until the air was carved once more by the strains of the blind accordioniste perched near the entrance just beyond the revolving brass door... Suddenly, th )

    The Minor Line Cliche! And so many variations... In fact, used so many times that it's become a cliche! (I think I've lost my accent grave!) Resurrected often to evoke or invoke that I swishy-gishy romantic entendre to cause swooning and spooning. Is it even legal...?

    Michelle My Belle!, While My Guitar Is Gently Weeping, Feeelings, More, Chim-Chim-Ma-Cheree, A Taste Of Honey, Summer Rain, Can't Take My Eye Off Of You, Somethin', Lover Man, This Masquerade, What Are You Doing The Arrest Of Your Life, ... Not a cringer in the bunch, eh?!

    In a song in the key of C Major, you can play one on Am, and then another on Dm if you wish to compound the error...

    Sometimes the movement created by the descending chromatic line is so broad that the cliche is barely noticeable. The ear is fooled. A sleight of hand I would think. I am The Piano Man!

    Last Tango In Paris...? It must have one hidden in there somewhere... a hidden line cliche.

    (When I hear Cesh I think of Babylon Five and I go blank.)
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    Quote Originally Posted by StringNavigator


    Michelle, While My Guitar Gently Weeps, Feelings, More, Chim Chim Cheree, A Taste Of Honey, Summer Rain, Can't Take My Eyes Off Of You, Something, Lover Man, This Masquerade, What Are You Doing The Rest Of Your Life, ...

    In a song in the key of C Major, you can play one on Am, and then another on Dm if you wish to compound the error...

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    "Something" is interesting in that he uses the progression on a major chord instead of a minor in the verse (starting with F maj, F major 7...) , and then a few bars later uses the progression in the minor form on Dminor.

    I had forgotten about the song Feelings you mention. That's a great song for chord melody.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Marc Grossman
    ...I had forgotten about the song Feelings you mention. That's a great song for chord melody.
    Back in '74 they wouldn't let you forget it. Malls, office buildings and elevators would massage you with its plaintive call 9 to 5 Mon-Fri. Low on plot, but laced with feelie stuff. And they had secretaries back then... row upon row of' em... in mini-skirts... armed with AM desk radios. And every hour... they would carve the air with "feelings....whoa whoa whoa, feeee-lings...whoa whoa whoa...!" Some would even try to sing along. Whoa, whoa, baby! Followed closely by Tom Jones' What's New Pussycat?! More whoa whoa whoa! (What does it all mean, Anyway...?!!) Then they'd come home and bust your bollocks until you got rid of that guitar... "Grow up and be a real man! Practice...? Work overtime!"

    Meanwhile, women were flinging their fresh underwear with wild abandon at Elvis on a stage somewhere...
    I guess today they'd have an App for that,,

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    Round midnight … if you play it right!

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    Cry me a river has it in the bridge, and in the first bars in reverse:
    Gm - Gmb6 - Gm6 - Gm7.


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    Quote Originally Posted by docsteve
    Cry me a river has it in the bridge, and in the first bars in reverse:
    Gm - Gmb6 - Gm6 - Gm7.


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    Does Eleanor Rigby count?