Round Midnight beginning and ending tags
Gary Smiley
in the famous Miles Davis version? I know the changes to the tune, but
I'm only looking for the beginning 8 bars and the the 16-bar tag at the
end of the tune. Thanks in advance.
Marc Sabatella
> Does anyone have the changes to the tags on Round Midnight as recorded
> in the famous Miles Davis version?
Not too sure about the Miles version, but the intro and coda as played by
Monk go:
Intro:
| Am7b5 | D7alt | Gm7b5 | C7alt | Fm7b5 | Bb7alt | x | x |
I think Monk generally improvised over the Bb7, or E7, over the last two
bars; Miles played an Eb minor chord.
Coda:
| Cm7b5 | F7b5 | Cm7b5 | F7b5 | F#m7 | B7b5 | F#m7 | B7b5 |
| Bm7 | E7 | Fm7b5 | Bb7 | Eb
At the end of the coda is a mleodic figure in fourths that is usually not
accompanied by any chords.
> I know the changes to the tune
Hopefully, then, you did not get these from the Real Book, which has around
half the chords wrong (check: second bar should be Cm7b5 Abm7 Db7, not Fm7
Bb7).
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