Re: Midnight Voyage

Bert Ligon ( BLigon@mozart.music.sc.edu )
Tue, 20 Jan 1998 17:12:00 -0500

>On Tue, 20 Jan 1998, Bert Ligon wrote:
>
>> Brief advice. If the chord clashes with the melody, it's probably the wrong
>> chord. You suggest a G7alt which calls for Db & Eb, but the melody in those
>> spots is D natural. On the bridge, I believe the Ab7 is Ab7sus then Ab7,
>> not a #11.
>
>Could you please clarify. You think its G7 as opposed to G7alt in the
>second bar of the [A] section?

The melody note in the second measure [of A] is D natural. The chord is G7.
I do not hear anyone playing a fully altered G7 sound in that measure. A
fully altered G7 would have Db and Eb. The G7 has an Ab [b9].

And you also think that the bridge goes:
>||Fm7|G7alt|Fm7|A7alt|Ab7sus Ab7|G7alt|Cm7|Cm7|| (???)
>
>I'm not sure I follow your train of thought.

I do not have the CD in front of me, so I am going from memory. I'll check
later. But, I remember the second chord of [B] as a Gm7, and the third as
Abmaj7. So the [B]:

|Fm7|Gm7|Abmaj7|A7alt|Ab7sus Ab7|G7b9 * |Cm7|Cm7||

* melody note is D natural again.

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