Substitutions: When You Wish Upon A Star From: reed kotler This is a nice old disney tune many of us grew up hearing. The sheet music is not too bad though the chord symbols on the sheet music are pretty terrible and I do have a few moves to add. Often time the chord symbols are a horrible renderring of the written part of the music. You have to do your own analysis. The orignal Key is C though I learned it in F but will analyze it in C for this mail. The original 4 bars in sheet music is: C A7+ | Dm(maj7) Dm7 | G9 G7sus,G7 | Cdim7 C6 | C/E I play pretty much the same thing: C A7#5b9 | Dm(maj7) Dm9 | G9 Dmi9,G13b9| Cdim7,Emi7/C C6 | C/E The next four in the sheet music are: C/E Ebdim | Dmi9 A7 | Dmi7 G9,G7b9 | Cmaj7 G7 | C ... The Dmi7 in the sheet music is notated as F. That's because F A C is in the right hand, however the left hand bass note is G. Moral: never trust sheet music chord symbols from the publisher. The C/E can be played as an Emi7 but be careful because the C melody note will clash with the Emi7. You have to voice the chord correctly and use proper dynamics. The turnaround C G7 is pretty lame. I use: Emi7 Ebdim | Dmi9 A7b9 | Dmi9 G7b9 | Emi7,A7b9b5 Dmi11,G13b9 | C ... The next 8 are basically the same except we don't need the turnaround going into the bridge. Essentially we have for the first 16: C A7#5b9 | Dm(maj7) Dm9 | G9 Dmi9,G13b9| Cdim7,Emi7/C C6 | Emi7 Ebdim | Dmi9 A7b9 | Dmi9 G7b9 | Emi7,A7b9b5 Dmi11,G13b9 | C A7#5b9 | Dm(maj7) Dm9 | G9 Dmi9,G13b9| Cdim7,Emi7/C C6 | Emi7 Ebdim | Dmi9 A7b9 | Dmi9 G7b9 | C6| What the sheet music has for the first four of the bridge is: Dmi7b5/G Em/G | C | Dmi/G G7 | Cdim C | Ami7.... The Dmi7b5 chord is unecessarily disonant for this song and the Emi/G just plain silly. I basic ii/V works best and the C is best just replaced with a ii7/VI7 which leads nicely into the next mesaure. Dmi7 G13b9 | Emi7 A7b9b5 | Dmi7 G13sus,G7b9 | Cdim7 C | Ami7.... The next four in the sheet music are: Ami7 | D7 | Dmi7 | G7 | On the sheet music on the G7 chord they write Abmi on the third beat. THis is really silly. Abmi is the upper structure triad being played ove G7 (making it G7b13,b9). Just because the triad is in the right hand they notate it wrong. I basically play the same chords here: Ami7 | D9#11 | Dmi7 | G13b9 | Then the last 8 bars are the same as the second 8 so I get in total essentially: C A7#5b9 | Dm(maj7) Dm9 | G9 Dmi9,G13b9| Cdim7,Emi7/C C6 | Emi7 Ebdim | Dmi9 A7b9 | Dmi9 G7b9 | Emi7,A7b9b5 Dmi11,G13b9 | C A7#5b9 | Dm(maj7) Dm9 | G9 Dmi9,G13b9| Cdim7,Emi7/C C6 | Emi7 Ebdim | Dmi9 A7b9 | Dmi9 G7b9 | C6| Dmi7 G13b9 | Emi7 A7b9b5 | Dmi7 G13sus,G7b9 | Cdim7 C | Ami7 | D9#11 | Dmi7 | G13b9 | C A7#5b9 | Dm(maj7) Dm9 | G9 Dmi9,G13b9| Cdim7,Emi7/C C6 | Emi7 Ebdim | Dmi9 A7b9 | Dmi9 G7b9 | C6| [end reed] From: BLigon@mozart.music.sc.edu (Bert Ligon) These are changes stolen from Andy Laverne, I think from his CD "Natural Living." The chord symbols alone miss the richness of his voicings and the fact that what makes the chords interesting is his moving voice-leading that can't be sent over this e-mail. Each note of the melody is often individually harmonized. He put the piece in the key of Eb, which may work better. I have transposed it for easy comparison. Em7 A7b9b13 | Dm(maj7) Em11 | Fmaj7#5 Fmaj7 G7sus G13| G#=F87 Gm6 F#= =F87 Fm6| C/E D#o7 | Dmi9 Dm#5 Em7 Em7#5 |Fmaj7#5 Fmaj G7sus G13b9 |C/G | Em7 A7b9b13 | Dm(maj7) Em11 | Fmaj7#5 Fmaj7 G7sus G13| G#=F87 Gm6 F#= =F87 Fm6| C/E D#o7 | Dmi9 Dm#5 Em7 Em7#5 |Fmaj7#5 Fmaj G7sus G13b9 |C/G | D=F87/G G7b9 | C/G | D=F87/G G7b9 | B/G C/G B7#9 F9#11| Em9 Bb9#11 Am6 Eb13 | D9#11 D#o7 | C/E Fm6 | Fm(maj7)/G G13b9 | Cmaj7 B7alt Bb7#9 A7#9 |Dm(maj7) Eb9#11 |F#9sus / G9sus G7 |G#=F87 Gm6 F#=F8= 7 Fm6| B7#9b13 Eb9#11 G#7#9b13 C9#11 | F#13b9 Ab13#11 C#7#9 B7#9 |Fmaj7#5 Fmaj G7sus G13b9 | Bbmaj7 Dbmaj7 C / | [end bert] Jules: Reed, a)You have worked out a beautiful cahrt on "when you wish upon a star". If I were trying to solo over it, It would be less confusing if the basic simple chords that you base the extensions on were given to me while you played this chord chart. I could fill in the extensions with my solo and also add a few more. (I am a sax player.) b)A good ear player would probably get the essance of what you are doing and play something that is highly adequate. c) If you really get far out, a chord chart or a rehearsal would be necessary. Since all bass players are not geniouses, it would be considerate to let him in on what you are doing as well. d)Since you have done all of this in the past, this letter is really not directed at you personnally, but rather at the many keyboard players out there that don't think about other people in thier jazz groups. [end Jules] From: Frank Hamilton Reed, Looking over your chart............... > >The orignal Key is C though I learned it in F but will >analyze it in C for this mail. > >The original 4 bars in sheet music is: > >C A7+ | Dm(maj7) Dm7 | G9 G7sus,G7 | Cdim7 C6 | >C/E >I play pretty much the same thing: > >C A7#5b9 | Dm(maj7) Dm9 | G9 Dmi9,G13b9| Cdim7,Emi7/C C6 | >C/E It seems that the G13b9 would require the vocalist to sing an Ab instead of a G in the melody. On the syllable "dif-f'rence". This doesn't bother me. The F# on the syllable "where" would follow the Ab making this an interesting tune. Also, I would prefer to label the Em7/C as a Cmaj9. >The next four in the sheet music are: > >C/E Ebdim | Dmi9 A7 | Dmi7 G9,G7b9 | Cmaj7 G7 | >C ... >The C/E can be played as an Emi7 but be careful because the >C melody note will clash with the Emi7. You have to voice the >chord correctly and use proper dynamics. > >The turnaround C G7 is pretty lame. I use: > >Emi7 Ebdim | Dmi9 A7b9 | Dmi9 G7b9 | Emi7,A7b9b5 Dmi11,G13b9 | >C ... This is pretty. A nice reharmonization. [end Frank] reed: >It seems that the G13b9 would require the vocalist to sing an Ab instead of >a G in the melody. On the syllable "dif-f'rence". Not really. I voice g13b9 with a G in the melody frequently. I.e from the bottom: [G F Ab B E G] The b9 is buried way down in the chord and I dont't think will bother the singer if you are playing the G melody note. >Also, I would prefer to label the Em7/C as a Cmaj9. > yes, that was more an indication of what to grab. Kind of a pianistic thing. I'm playing something like [C E] in the left hand and [B D E G] in the right hand. [end When You Wish]