Substitutions - Misty

From: Ian M Dilley <imd@bjss.co.uk>

I've plucked up enough courage to post this humble offering.  I've marked 
some chords as (alt).  I don't know if this is the right terminology but I 
play them with just about everything altered (b5 b9 b10 b13).  In the 6th 
bar of the middle 8 (bridge in the US I believe) in the right hand I play 
the melody as Ab and Bb triads with a D7 in the left hand.

In bar 1 the Eb dim maj7 is just for 1 beat - a sort of appoggiatura type 
of thing. In the 4th bar I play an inner part that goes Bb Ab G Gb F in 
time with the melody. The F landing at the start of the Db.

Reed (and anyone else), please feel free to comment (improve it) as much as 
you like.  I'm an amateur and need to learn.

Ebdim maj7,Eb maj7     | Bbm7  A7(alt)  | Ab maj7   | Abm7  Db7 |
G13  Cm7 | Fm7  Bb7b9  | G13  F#7b9  | Fm7  E7(alt)  |
Ebdim maj7,Eb maj7     | Bbm7  A7(alt)  | Ab maj7   | Abm7  Db7 |
G13  Cm7 | Fm7  Bb7b9  | Dbmaj7  D7b9  | Eb    chords tacet for 2 beats |
C7b9  F+7b9 | Bbm7  A7(alt) | Abmaj7   | Fm7  Bbm7  |
Am7        | D7(alt)       | Gm7b5  Cm7  | Fm7  E7(alt) |
Ebdim maj7,Eb maj7     | Bbm7  A7(alt)  | Ab maj7   | Abm7  Db7 |
G13  Cm7 | Fm7  Bb7b9 | Dbmaj7  D7b9  | Eb         | (for the ending)
                     | Eb   Cm7   | Fm7  E7(alt) | (to go into choruses)

BTW.  I'm not sure about the first 2 bars of the bridge.

[end Ian]

reed:

Ian, I don't have time to work through the bridge today. There seem to
be some problems in the beginning of the bridge but I have to spend some
more time because it may just be the way I'm voicing the chords.

The first section is nice. (BTW, I'm not just being nice because the last
guy flamed me. ) You make some different bass note and tension choices than
I do but that's more or less a matter of taste.

The only real problem I see is the Cmi7 chord in bar 5.

That doesnt really fit. Having a minor seventh chord like that, following a
dominant 7th chord, on the weak part of the measure is a problem.

For that measure, I see the following choices as working:

Gmi7 Cmi7 |   weak but it works
Gmi7 C7   |
G7   C7   |

Of course tritone variations of the above will work too.

I like the Dbmaj7 D7b9 move into the Ebmaj7 chord before the bridge.

Consider some kind of ii/V into the bridge though. You don't really want to
let it sit for two bars like that do you?

[end reed]

Jules:

I have looked at your changes in my mind while I am at my desk. In my humble
opinion, you have not lost the essence of the tune and that your use of 
G13 for Ebmaj7 may sound interesting. (I haven't tried that yet.)

One comment is Ebdim maj7 is that same as D7b9 and I have heard people use that 
progression before. I sounds pretty good.

I don't know how the subs you used in the first two bars of the bridge sound 
at the piano, but I DO know that the melody will fit. The chords that I am 
familiar with at that place are | Bbmin7 / Eb7 / | Bbmin7 / Eb7b9 / |.

[end Jules]

[end Misty]