Its in the key of e minor in the real book, but g minor in other places, including the aebersold volume 44, entitled autumn leaves. Our backing tracks for autumn leaves are in the following keys. Your favorite real book corrections music player network. But with out looking at the other chords which you have not told us you do not know for sure. Now that weve analyzed autumn leaves so that the progression makes sense to us logically, its time to practice the progression so that it makes sense in our ears and under our fingers. Major, minor, dominant 7th, and diminished, along with the root note button and the.
Autumn leaves tutorial intro, chord melody, singlenote solo. Mar 01, 2018 the key that i am u s ing for autumn leaves in this arrangement is g minor. From the minor key you can either memorize its relative key, or use this trick. Yes that also leaves the possibility of em, as em is the relative minor of g. Autumn leaves analysis the lesson loft guitars harmony. The real jazz solos book c instruments hal leonard online. Its important to memorize this form just as much as it is to remember the changes and the melody. Autumn leaves is also often played in the key of g minor, so it is important to learn it in this key also. Several generations of jazz musicians played autumn leaves in the key of g minor the first chord is cm.
Autumn leaves bass line in g minor accompaniment backing track play along. Bb pdf free download autumn leaves play along backing track bb realbook night and. Autumn leaves is popular with jazz musicians, in part, because of the cannonball adderleymiles davis and bill evans recordings below. Gmaj7 cmaj 11 f m7 5 b7 em7 e 7 dm7 d 7 cmaj7 cmaj7 c7 b7 9 em fim e7alt medium jazz a autumn leaves johnny mercer. Chord chart resource with over 1,300 jazz standards that you can transpose to any key. E minor 7 e7 c row counterbass e g major notice how the a7 and e7 chords are the same pattern in different rows, as are the g maj 9 and c maj 9. Print and download lead sheets for autumn leaves composed by joseph kosma includes complete lyrics in e minor transposable. Cannonballs recording is in the same key as the new real book, but he uses simpler changes. Many of your real book favorites can be found here and in the igigbook ios and android app. May 19, 2016 print and download autumn leaves sheet music composed by joseph kosma arranged for alto saxophone. This is may be your first lesson in not treating the real book as the gospel truth. The form of the piece is a 8 bars a 8 bars b 8 bars c 8 bars.
Jul 03, 2012 judging by the number of times it has been recorded, autumn leaves is the most important nonamerican standard in the jazz repertoire. Autumn leaves from the jazz pianists ultimate guide to. Right, this is one of those songs that pops up in 2 different keys. You have to know that autumn leaves is commonly played in g minor. Now i guess im gonna work at improvising over it and so heres my analysis of it and what scales i plan on using. Nov 30, 2017 autumn leaves is in the key of concert g minor. And since the early 1970s, it has remained popular because its featured prominently near the beginning of the real book. In autumn leaves, youll find the a min 7 is often followed by a d7 and then a g maj 9. The two most common keys are g minor the original and e minor real book key.
Gmaj7 gm7 cmaj7 c7 f m7 f m7 5 b7 cm7 b7 f7 11 em7 e7alt 1. Autumn leaves johnny mercer beautiful love victor young billies bounce charlie parker. This amazing collection transcribes nearly 150 of the bestknown jazz solos regardless of the instrument exactly as recorded by icons of the trade, including. Though you can of course play it in any key you wish, gm is the. Autumn leaves e minor version play along eb version youtube. Chords for autumn leaves real jazz backing track jazz. Its a very popular jazz standard for beginners as its harmonically pretty simple but its a great one to develop and learn things like chord melody and.
Chord melody for guitar pdf autumn leaves chordmelody. This is not the key from the real book, but it is the most common key for performing. For your average jazzer, autumn leaves is played in the key of g minor. Autumn leaves chet baker blue in green toots thielemans blue train john coltrane bright size life jaco pastorius dolphin dance herbie hancock footprints. It is technically in the minor key, but i like to mention the major key also to avoid any ambiguity, espically since the tune dances between the major and minor keys so much and since both common keys have a g associated with them. Autumn leaves is an excellent jazz standard to start with because it covers some basic. The new real book, egalement en trois volumes, publie chez sher music, et est plus lisible. Ok ive been slacking on learning some jazz standards but i finally got around to it and learned autumn leaves. Joseph kosmajazz play along the real jazz backing trackmidium swingt 116intro 4 bars5 chorusesthis backing track is not midi tracks. Joseph kosma autumn leaves sheet music alto saxophone solo. We often default to the popular fake book key of e minor, so guitarists. Learn it that way first without the roger williams arpeggios, however. The arrangement is using callresponse to also allow the chords to add some groove to.
Autumn leaves chord progression jazz backing track play. Ok the autumn leaves i gave you is also in em, so i bet yours is also. Autumn leaves the song and the chord melody arrangement. The g minor, however, dominates due to qualitative emphasis. At some point in your practicing, work on each one separately. Autumn leaves g minor, why not think of the g7 ending on bb7 as f. The key that i am using for autumn leaves in this arrangement is g minor.
Autumn leaves g minor, why not think of the g 7 ending on bb7 as f minor. Autumn leaves soul funk, g minor backing track play alo. Autumn leaves joseph kosma ireal pro music book and. Autumn leaves from the jazz pianists ultimate guide to the. Autumn leaves g minor, why not think of the g7 ending on. This article traces the compositions interesting history through the various published versions, and shows how its oftstudied musical structure has ties to classical compositions.
In the a and b sections the melody behaves in a stepwise manner, descending in a, while ascending in b. Shape autumn leaves aab, where 8 bars and b is 16 bars, so its 32 bar shaped. First of all, this key is commonly played in two keys, concert bbgm and concert g em. If you only know ten jazz tunes, you probably know autumn leaves. The version of autumn leaves that comes with the jazz 0 is a nice arrangement, but i found myself wanting to practice the real book 5th edition version, which is in e minor the more common key to the song, and a bit simpler than the jazz 0 version, which is in g minor. Autumn leaves is one of those tunes with several standard keys. G, a, bb, c, d, eb, g a hexachord 6note pitch collection. Heatwave chord chart resource with over 1,300 jazz standards that you can transpose to any key. Autumn leaves chet baker blue in green toots thielemans blue train john coltrane bright size life jaco pastorius dolphin dance herbie hancock. Here is my plan and let me know if im approaching it right. And then, all of a sudden, newer generations began playing it in the key of e minor the first chord is am. Autumn leaves how to use drop 2 for an easy chord melody.
Though you can of course play it in any key you wish, gm is the standard key for this one. Jul 22, 2017 the new real book is a completely different series, in three volumes by number, in addition to standards real book, latin real book, and all jazz real book. Using drop 2 voicings on guitar, you can play a sophisticated chord melody arrangement of the first 16 bars. Autumn leaves is fairly simple to play and improvise on, because even though it changes chords frequently it centers on the key of bb major and its relative minor key of g minor. How to play autumn leaves advanced jazz guitar chord lesson. Oct 21, 2016 the two most common keys are g minor the original and e minor real book key. Easy autumn leaves chord melody and quick howtoplay. The form of autumn leaves is aab where a is 8 bars and b is 16 bars, so it is a 32 bar form. Autumn leaves e minor version play along eb version. This is not the key from the real book, but it is the most common key for performing the song. Ei see your 5 lips, a7 d7 the sum merkiss g 7 es,c7 the sun burnta 9 hands f7b5 b7 i used to hold. Oct 05, 2018 autumn leaves g minor, why not think of the g 7 ending on bb7 as f minor. Various this amazing collection transcribes nearly 150 of the bestknown jazz solos regardless of the instrument exactly as recorded by icons of the trade, including. Autumn leaves g minor, why not think of the g7 ending on bb7.
Johnny mercer wrote the english lyric in 1947 and its since been a pop and jazz hit in both languages. I play g major pentatonic over this focusing on the chord tones. Interesting how influential the real book is, musicians i work with will call out that tune and say in the original key and i have to ask if they mean the real book key or g, invariably they mean the real book key. Em f m7 f m7 5 b7 9 em fm7 b 7 am7 am7 d7 e m7 d7 a 7 gmaj7 cmaj 11 f m7 5 b7 em7 e 7 dm7 d 7 cmaj7 cmaj7 c7 b7 9 em fim e7alt medium jazz a autumn leaves johnny mercer. The entire melody is comprised of 6 diatonic notes. Harmonically, autumn leaves is much simpler than it may look at first sight. Ive performed the song in both g minor and e minor. Les feuilles mortes im english lyric by johnny mercer. Typically, jazzers will want to play this tune in g minor. Inspire a love of reading with amazon book box for kids discover delightful childrens books with amazon book box, a subscription that delivers new books. Autumn leaves is a great jazz standard that is an excellent example of a song that moves back and forth between a major key and its relative minor key. You can usually use the maj9 pattern for maj7 chords. Autumn leaves season to taste mascari piano studios. G 7 dow,c7 the au tumn a leaves f7b5 b7 of red and gold.
Since the original edition of the real book recommended bill evans album portrait in jazz at the bottom of the autumn leaves page, i thought that maybe evans had recorded it in e minor himself. Autumn leaves how to handle the iii vi ii v smoothly. In this lesson, we look at the chords for the classic jazz standard autumn leaves, a popular starter for beginners. Once you can play it as the composer intended, then you can stretch. The harmonic analysis of the jazz standard autumn leaves is not particularly difficult and a good introduction to this essential jazz skill. Autumn leaves is a popular song written in 1945 and the original lyrics are in french. C, e, and g are the notes of a c major chord, so playing an a.
Autumn leaves melody and solo study jazz guitar online. Autumn leaves song and chord melody arrangement key, which i use for autumn leaves in this arrangement is g minor. All blues au privave autumn leaves black orpheus bluesette body and soul bright size life con alma dolphin dance dont get around much anymore easy living. Hal leonard proudly presents new mini editions of its bestselling real books. Its basically two sets of iivis, one in g major and one in e minor. E minor g major scale, also common in g minor bb major scale a ii. When i listen to stan getz, i would say its in key of c. Autumn leaves les feuilles mortes key of g eminor be. There is a iii vi ii v i progression in the last section of. This is not the key to a real book, but it is the most common key to the performance of a song.
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