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Originally Posted by mr. beaumont
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01-01-2018 08:13 PM
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Just to clarify. This is TRANSPOSING we're talking. NOT TRANSCRIBING. So we're looking for a frame of reference that allows for instantly taking a tune played to be heard and played by ear in real time on the fly with an arbitrary key center. Just so we're clear.
I played a duo with a vocalist. She"d call a tune, find her range and start singing, or hum a few bars and I'd make an intro. Great training in transposing. Not easy at first for sure!
David
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Originally Posted by christianm77
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Originally Posted by mr. beaumont
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I hate roman numerals. Here's why:
VII-IV-III-V-VI-II-IV-VII - awful to read
7-6-3-5-6-2-4-7 - much nicer.
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Originally Posted by emanresu
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I came up with the most horrible idea about the matter now.
What if learning to add an interval to any note automatically. Then transposing would be just adding the interval to the original key and it's done. Thats like learning the multiplication table, but up to 12x12.
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*shudder*
Could do it in base twelve? ;-D
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Originally Posted by emanresu
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Originally Posted by christianm77
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Originally Posted by emanresu
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and of course, until the goal is reached, these days there 's the working crutch of carrying a smartphone with the ireal software in it. Instant key change, saved!
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about the Romans, the bog standards, and the Greeks...
a. we use the Romans to refer to the scale tone of the root of the chord, eg I, II, III, IV, V, VI, VII
b. we use the bog standards 1,2,3,4,5,6,7 to refer to the altered intervals within "a", eg II##7, I+6
so far so beautiful, logical, simple, perfect, fit for purpose
c. we abuse the Greeks to derive Ionian, Dorian, etc (a big wish would be to hear, understand, and use those ancient modes as the classical Greeks did...I'm sure our Aeolian is not theirs, maybe a musico-historian could shed light)
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It's just a bit long winded.
I quite frequently end up playing new tunes on the bandstand without charts. Most of the time all you need to know when playing standards is the degree of the scale and whether that chord is altered relative to the diatonic chord.
So - is the VI minor or has a raised 3rd, and so on.
To be honest - you can develop you ear listening to the melody and work out what you can get away with under it, and what melody notes demand, for instance, a II7 chord.
Obviously, you can learn this info for sure by listening to recorded versions of the tune.
Which I suppose is pretty much the way people learned standards before everything became a lead sheet?
On the band stand, someone might say as they did the other night- OK, Me Myself and I. The changes of this tune can be communicated this quickly
"AABA. 1-2-5-1 A section. B section is Rhythm. Last A has an extra 2-5 at the end. In C."
- A section 1 - 2 - 5 - 1 (the major 2 chord is expressed by the melody, so use you lugs as Dave Cliff would say.)
- B section is I Got Rhythm (the old name was a Sears -Roebuck bridge, but that's a little obscure.) You need to know that's 3-6-2-5 all doms
- Last A there's an extra 2-5
- being given that info, any key is equally fine, as you learn those modules in all 12.
This is obviously a very simple tune - Stella couldn't be communicated that way.
Other examples of modules as I have head them called
1-17-4-#4(dim)-1-6-2-5-1 The Horse (dim version)
In this case whether the third chord is a 4m or #4 (or whether you have one at all)
1-4-2-5 Honeysuckle Bridge
#4(m7b5)-4m-3-6-2-5 Long/Cole Porter turnaround perhaps the second chord is 47 - again depends on melody
Notice the rhythm is not specified. You have to lughole that (hear it)
Unfortunately, these names aren't standard.... They will vary from person to person. The book Harmony with Lego Bricks has this basic concept... The only problem is my colleagues haven't read it so they use different names lol. I believe Pete Churchill teaches a version of this at the UK conservatoires, I should probably get a copy of his handout so I know what names they use.
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TL;DR It's the melody stupid
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Originally Posted by christianm77
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Christian ,what you call this Bridge ?
I7 , IV , II7 , V7
Ps
You going to see Jim on Sunday ?
I might go ....
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Originally Posted by pingu
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Has anyone worked with the John Mehegan books? He wrote a 4 volume set of really great (I think) improvisational theoretical and practical books. One of them has popular and standard song forms from early Dixieland through the tunes of the day, all in roman numeral format. I didn't understand why he did this at the time, but now that I think of it, it had a lot to do with seeing songs in aural structure and not in specific key.
I know these books are long out of print. Maybe they were re-published at some point, I don't know. Bill Evans, the pianist, wrote the introduction and spoke highly of these volumes as I recall. As I said earlier, it has a lot to do with how we are taught to learn a piece that determines how easily we can make transposition.
David
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Originally Posted by emanresuOriginally Posted by emanresu
That's a science and art in and of itself.
David
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As I said earlier... Roman numerals... aren't for learning the tune. They are the result of an analysis. So they are basically used to help remember, not learn a tune.
They work... and when on stage when doing quick head arrangements or trying to verbally explain something musical to other on stage musicians...Roman numerals imply tonal references.
When I say V of I natural minor. I just gave a complete harmonic organization for creating relationships and how to develop them.
I know what chord patterns to approach any chord in the tune etc... in any key.
If you don't know the tune... even a transposed chart might not cover.
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Originally Posted by mr. beaumont
Is it called Honeysuckle Bridge too ?
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Originally Posted by Reg
When I'm listening to music, and the band's playing a contrafact of Rhythm Changes, I hear and visualize a movement through the tonality that let's me see the leaps through III VI II V. Yeah, when I'm playing it, I'm not thinking numbers, but those numbers describe a path that's set in my ears.
At this point, that aural guideline takes me through just about anything I can hear, but it's the Roman numerals I call them by. They call up sounds that are internalized in my sound library.
Maybe that's completely different from the way others use this nomenclature, Yes, I learn something new every day.
David
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Originally Posted by pingu
David
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