Re: Sweet Georgia Brown
Originally Posted by
Don Stiernberg
... there's also a cool chromatic walkdown lick as we head back to F from Dm, it goes F7-E7-Eb7-D7..G7-C7-F ...
My most recent band played it that way (although in the key of G). I had not encountered that before. The band I had been in some 33 odd years (some very odd) previously had done it something like this:
Bb B° F D7 G7 C7 F.
(Funny to see it that way, as I've always thought of those first two chords as "4 4#°." I am not going to say Bb#° except here and now, in a jocular manner. )
The walkdown is easier, and cool, and also the way the Harlem Globetrotters' version goes, IIRC. The pattern I posted is pretty standard issue for the genre and time period. I think of it as "the Daydream riff," as that is the B part of "Daydream" - the first four chords, that is - and that is the first song in which I'd heard that progression. Well ... It's actually written as - in the key of C - F D7 C A7, which in F would be Bb G7 F D7. Well ... The second chord in that progression must be played without the root to fit the "4 4#°" model. Well ... Enough already! Though the sheet music for "Daydream" is printed that way, in C. But I digress ...
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