substitutions - "Silver Bells"

reed ( (no email) )
Fri, 06 Dec 1996 17:24:06 +0000

A nice holiday tune by Jay Livingston and Ray Evans .

The original sheet music has for the first eight bars:
(remember the tune is in 3/4)

Bb | Dm Bb7 | Eb | Eb6 |
F7 Dm C#m | Cm Dm F7 | Cm7 Bb Bb | Eb Bb7 Cm7 |

I tried:

Bb Bb F7sus | Bb Bb7 Fm7,Bb7 | Eb Eb Db7 | C7sus C7sus C7 |
F7 F7 C#m7 | Cm7 Cm7 F7 | Bb | Cm7 Cm7 F7sus |

The next eight is basically the so I get for the first 16:

Bb Bb F7sus | Bb Bb7 Fm7,Bb7 | Eb Eb Db7 | C7sus C7sus C7 |
F7 F7 C#m7 | Cm7 Cm7 F7 | Bb | Cm7 Cm7 F7sus |
Bb Bb F7sus | Bb Bb7 Fm7,Bb7 | Eb Eb Db7 | C7sus C7sus C7 |
F7 F7 C#m7 | Cm7 Cm7 F7 | Bb | Cm7 Cm7 F7 |

The next 8 in the original sheet music are:

Bb | Bb | Eb | Eb |
F F C7 | F7 | Bb | Cm7 Bb Cm7 |
Bb....

I tried:

Bb B7 | Fm7 Bb7 | Eb | Edim 7 |
F7 F7 Edim7 | F7 | Bb | Cm7 F7 |

The next 8 are bascially the same so I tried in total:

Bb Bb F7sus | Bb Bb7 Fm7,Bb7 | Eb Eb Db7 | C7sus C7sus C7 |
F7 F7 C#m7 | Cm7 Cm7 F7 | Bb | Cm7 Cm7 F7sus |
Bb Bb F7sus | Bb Bb7 Fm7,Bb7 | Eb Eb Db7 | C7sus C7sus C7 |
F7 F7 C#m7 | Cm7 Cm7 F7 | Bb | Cm7 Cm7 F7 |
Bb B7 | Fm7 Bb7 | Eb | Edim 7 |
F7 F7 Edim7 | F7 | Bb | Cm7 F7 |
Bb B7 | Fm7 Bb7 | Eb | Edim 7 |
F7 F7 Edim7 | F7 Cm7 F7 | Bb | |

reed