Re: Substitutions: Days of Wine and Roses addition

Berry Kercheval ( kerch@parc.xerox.com )
Wed, 2 Oct 1996 10:32:14 PDT

>>>"reed kotler" said:
> Of course there are many more variations but I left
> out one that I had made a note to put in my mail:
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> On bars 9 - 12 you can play
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> Ami7 Emi7,A7 | Dmi7 Ab7 G7sus G7 | Gmi7 | Gmi7/F |
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Although I have classical training, as a beginning jazz player and buddin=
g =

electric bassist I have a lot of questions so I hope my naivet=E9 doesn't=
bother =

anyone.

Today's question is this: I understand these chord substitutions, more o=
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less, and how they allow the player to change or enhance the harmonic col=
or of =

the piece, but as a bass player, if the other musicians are doing these =

substitutions, do I have to *know* what they're doing, or will it sound O=
K if =

I keep playing the published chords? Or do folks get together before the=
gig =

and exchange substituted lead sheets?

--berry

Berry Kercheval :: kerch@parc.xerox.com :: Xerox Palo Alto Research Cente=
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