RE: intros and endings

Crosbie, Jeremy MV ( (no email) )
Tue, 31 Dec 96 08:16:00 PST

>A favorite ending of mine, when the final note of the tune is the root,
>is to play the #5Maj7, followed by the #9Maj7, followed by the I, with
>the melody note staying on top. In C, that is:

>AbMaj7, DbMaj7, CMaj7.

>This could be considered a variant on ii-V-I, since Ab and Db are the
>tritone subs of ii and V respectively.

I see this kind of ending a lot, but more commonly using a I-VI-II-V tritone
sub. Tunes like "Ladybird" use this explicitly as the turnaround.

Minor Correction: I think you meant to write b9Maj7, not #9Maj7.

-JC