Quick question before bed: I was working on Yes Or No (Yes And No?) out of the Real Book tonight and encountered a couple of things. I was playing along with the official reference version of the song (the album version off of Juju) and felt like I heard the following: a. The first four bars (this is a Bb book and I was on soprano sax) are B-7/E and the next four bars are Emaj7. However, it sure didnt sound like any kind of a change occurred at bar 5 to my ears. I mean, it sounded like an identical change, like a modal thing was going on, so I was puzzled. I did not try to play the D and/or D# at each spot in the chord to see if either fit or did not, just to ascertain what was going on. b. I then got further lost because it seems like even though theres a sort-of turnaround in the two bars prior to each ending (C7, going off memory), then the two bars of the endings (F#-7), I wasnt hearing either, really…maybe the latter more than the former, but it just seemed odd. c. The whole bridge section is somewhat distinct to my ears, but then as the solos were going on, it occurred to me something that might drastically alter my approach and/or understanding of tunes in the Real Book. I realize they are transcriptions based on someones ears, and while Im not the quickest change-reader by far, even I was expecting to hear some matching tonalities pass me by as I tried to keep up with the bars…but the solos seem to lose that structure, i.e. when the piano solo comes in, all bets are off as to what chords are being played. This puts me in a bit of a quandary in terms of what to play, if I dont really have any chords to go by, or if theyre not going to play the chords that are there. I guess this is the closest Ive ever paid attention or been able to hear, but it immediately made me suspect the Real Book (and, mind you, this is the 6th edition, the revision of Volume 1 thats supposed to correct all the errors of the 5th edition). Comments and feedback are encouraged and welcome!
Posted on: Tue, 11 Mar 2014 05:17:58 +0000
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