Let's Stay Together - Al Green

[diatonic]

Someone had requested this tune a while back. I am requesting feedback on the first and second endings: do you think the chords are Dm9 both bars, D9 both bars, or does it go from Dm9 to D9? I have never been able to hear those chords.
Let's Stay Together by Al Green

 

[stephen88keys]

Isn't it Gmin7 in the 5th bar of the B section... As the same for the 5th bar of the ending as well...

 

[diatonic]

I'm hearing it as Bb. Plain old vanilla IV chord

 

[massimobio]

Stephen is right: the 5th bar of the B section as well as the coda should be G-7.

I also hear Db or Db^7 in the 7th bar of the A section.
The D9 sounds right at the end of the A section. (the bass player plays a high F#).

Also, since the 1st and 2nd ending are the same you could just skip them and save a line.

 

[diatonic]

I hear the Db and D9 (thank you). I am still hearing Bb after listening to the song again, not Gm7. The bassist is hitting Bb. Massimo can you make the changes? The app shuts down on me when I try to save the changes I am trying to make. Thx.

 

[massimobio]

I think you're talking about the 5th bar of A which you correctly have as Bb while the 5th bar of B clearly is G-7 while you wrote A-7.
Here's the fix.

Let's Stay Together by Al Green

 

[diatonic]

Thank you guys for the assist on this one. Looks much better.

 

[DaveBond002]

I see this forum is lacking one of my favorite songs. So here it is. I give you "Let's Stay Together." Feel free to comment, critique, and edit the chart.

Let's Stay Together

 

[DaveBond002]

Oh jeez. I didn't find this post before I posted another let's stay together chart in this forum. Well looking at both of yours, it looks like we're all on the same page, except for a few things. Take a look


Let's Stay Together

 

[famousbass]

Corrected chord version

 

[famousbass]

Corrected after a gig last night

Gig ready and safe

Let's Stay Together 1

 

[DDanilo]

Let's Stay Together

Let's Stay Together (Al Green)

Let's Stay Together - Al Green

 

[overlord74]

There is only one mistake in bar 10 from the A section, the chord is Am/E Not Emin7.

 

[BassoRidiculoso]

Let's Stay Together (Correct from Chuck Sher's New Real Book)

So here is a version of Al Green's Let's Stay Together.

No offense to the other versions up here, but they are all wrong, incorrect chords and incorrect form. If you play the chords in those versions with people who know this song, they will ask you what the hell you are doing, because those chords are not right. These are the chords from transcribed chart that appears in the NRB.


Let's Stay Together (NRB) - Al Green

 

[BassoRidiculoso]

So these are not right. They may be personal arrangements that people have worked up, but they are not the chords or the form that Al Green played on his recording.

This particular song has been written out on pg. 213 of the "The New Real Book" by Chuch Sher, transcribed from the Al Green recording.

Here is an irealb version of that version.

https://forums.irealpro.com/threads...rrect-from-Chuck-Sher-s-New-Real-Book).10801/

 

[diatonic]

Basso, you got it right sort of. Someone (like me) posts a song. Then someone else looks at it, says "hey this sounds off", then contributes a better version. I've edited other people's posts. We need your ears. And welcome.

 

[diatonic]

Nice. Thx for the addition.

 

[Bubul]

Let's Stay Together

Let's Stay Together - Al Green

 

[ngomaichi]

There is only one mistake in bar 10 from the A section, the chord is Am/E Not