Re: Fried banans

Bert Ligon ( BLigon@mozart.music.sc.edu )
Tue, 17 Mar 1998 20:17:27 -0500

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>Giacomo Aula wrote:
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>Hi everybody !
>Here's Giacomo in Torino, Italy.
>This is my first message after months spent reading in the list.
>
>In the future, more information about me... now not necessary.
>
>For the moment I would like to know if there's someone so kind to send to
>the list (and to me...) the chords of a song usually played by Dexter
>Gordon, Fried banans.
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>Thank you for reading.
>
>Giacomo
>
> Here are the changes for Fried Bananas..these are the changes for Bb
>instruments...if you want the concert changes just pitch everything down 1
>tone.
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>F |Ami7 D7 |Gmi7 |Bmi7 E7 |Ami7 |Gmi7
>C7 |Ami7 |D7 |
>Gmi7 |Bbmi7 Eb7 |F |Emi7 A7 |Dmi7
>|G7 |Gmi7 |C7 |
>F |Ami7 D7 |Gmi7 |Bmi7 E7 |Ami7 |Gmi7
>C7 |Ami7 |D7 |
>Gmi7 |Bbmi7 Eb7 |Ami7 |Ami7 D7 |Gmi7 |Gmi7
>GbMA7 |F |Gmi7 C7 |
>

These are close, but as Todd Lowe wrote, the tune is written over the
changes of "It Could happen to You." As written above, the melody for
either tune won't fit. The melody note in m.2 is Eb so the chord has to be
Am7b5. The same for m.4, F natural in melody, Bm7b5. Here are chords that
fit the melody in the concert key of Eb:

Eb | Gm7b5 C7 | Fm7 | Am7b5 D7 |
Eb | Abmaj7 | G7 | C7b9 |

Fm7 | Abm Db7 | Eb | Dm7 G7 |
Cm7 | F7 | Fm7 | Bb7 |

Eb | Gm7b5 C7 | Fm7 | Am7b5 D7 |
Eb | Abmaj7 | G7 | C7b9 |

Fm7 | Abm Db7 | Eb | Gm7b5 C7 |
Fm7 | Bb7 | Eb | Fm7 Bb7 |

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