engelbach
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My version of this great tune. It doesn't break any ground harmonically, but it's rhythmically interesting, in Swing Two/Four time.
Spring Can Really Revised - Tommy Wolf
Spring Can Really Revised - Tommy Wolf
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Spring Can Really Hang You Up The Most - Tommy Wolf
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nimbleswitch
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Jerry, thanks for this! I love what you did here. It was one of my favorite ballads, but I like your treatment even better.
I generally try to avoid using global repeats in iReal Pro except on practice charts. On performance charts, I like to see the whole arrangement in front of me. Just a personal preference of mine.
So, I rewrote your chart using internal repeats, but keeping your full arrangement. I also isolated those lone bass notes of yours, just guessing that you intended that they not be necessarily tied to a chord being played simultaneously. (The only drawback is that an initial error message appears, but that disappears when you just tap OK.) And I added an intro taken from your first A section.
Spring Can Really - Revised 2 - Tommy Wolf
If I had your ear and experience, I'd try this with other ballads. Thanks, again, this is really fun to play.
(Massimo, you are a bass-programming genius.)
Jack
I generally try to avoid using global repeats in iReal Pro except on practice charts. On performance charts, I like to see the whole arrangement in front of me. Just a personal preference of mine.
So, I rewrote your chart using internal repeats, but keeping your full arrangement. I also isolated those lone bass notes of yours, just guessing that you intended that they not be necessarily tied to a chord being played simultaneously. (The only drawback is that an initial error message appears, but that disappears when you just tap OK.) And I added an intro taken from your first A section.
Spring Can Really - Revised 2 - Tommy Wolf
If I had your ear and experience, I'd try this with other ballads. Thanks, again, this is really fun to play.
(Massimo, you are a bass-programming genius.)
Jack
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engelbach
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Thanks much.
Your version wouldn't play on my iPod or my laptop because of the form error.
Cheers,
Jer
the player doesn't "get" the W./x chords (with the dot), but will play Jack's chart now. (Solved the ending issue)
Spring Can Really - Revised 2 - Tommy Wolf
)BOB
Spring Can Really - Revised 2 - Tommy Wolf
)BOB
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engelbach
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Yes, it plays now that you've cleaned up the endings.the player doesn't "get" the W./x chords (with the dot), but will play Jack's chart now. (Solved the ending issue)
Spring Can Really - Revised 2 - Tommy Wolf
The dot doesn't seem to serve any purpose.
Jack, are those dots an accident?
Cheers,
Jer
nimbleswitch
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Hey, Bob, I could have sworn I tried that ending arrangement and that it wouldn't work right on my equipment, but I really must not have tried it because your correction is working for me now. Much better, thanks!
Jack
Jack
nimbleswitch
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Yes, Bob, it's much cleaner now. I don't know why I thought I had to use that strange work around; it's clearly not needed.
Jerry, maybe on your equipment the added dot doesn't do anything, I dunno. But on my iPhone 5 it allows your lone bass notes (like "/Bb") to sound by themselves on Playback. Otherwise--on my iPhone, at least--I always get a crash of the most-recent chord along with the bass note. Just depends on whether you want to hear that bass note alone. The dot lets that happen. (I don't remember who of us discovered that dot feature; it wasn't me.) You do have to put up with the initial error message at the top, but that's easily dispensed with by tapping "OK" during the countdown.
What I'd really love to see is the ability to select and play bass notes separately along two or even three octaves, say by entering /E1 to /E4 or even /B0 to /G4, without having to use the dot and get that error message.
Wouldn't iRP's bass players love that, Massimo? I'll never play bass as well as your algorithm does, I don't mean that I ever could, but it sure would be great to have that bass flexibility.
Jack
Jerry, maybe on your equipment the added dot doesn't do anything, I dunno. But on my iPhone 5 it allows your lone bass notes (like "/Bb") to sound by themselves on Playback. Otherwise--on my iPhone, at least--I always get a crash of the most-recent chord along with the bass note. Just depends on whether you want to hear that bass note alone. The dot lets that happen. (I don't remember who of us discovered that dot feature; it wasn't me.) You do have to put up with the initial error message at the top, but that's easily dispensed with by tapping "OK" during the countdown.
What I'd really love to see is the ability to select and play bass notes separately along two or even three octaves, say by entering /E1 to /E4 or even /B0 to /G4, without having to use the dot and get that error message.
Wouldn't iRP's bass players love that, Massimo? I'll never play bass as well as your algorithm does, I don't mean that I ever could, but it sure would be great to have that bass flexibility.
Jack
nimbleswitch
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Jerry, I just discovered your 90 Revised Standards Playlist you posted in Sandbox.
Wow.
Thank you.
Jack
Wow.
Thank you.
Jack
engelbach
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Oh, I get it now.
I'm a pianist, so I use only the bass and drums as backing tracks, omitting the piano and guitar.
Thanks for clarifying the dot, guys.
Cheers,
Jer
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engelbach
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Thanks, Jack.
I used to download backing tracks from Ralph Blatt and Jamey Aebersold. But since discovering iReal Pro I've been transferring all my tracks to it. It's not as lifelike as the others, naturally, but I like its flexibility.
And since I hope people are focussing on my piano playing rather than on the backing tracks, the iReal Pro tracks work just fine for me.
I'll keep updating the Playlist as I add more tunes, going through Sandbox to transfer the Playlist from my laptop to my iPod.
Cheers,
Jer
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DaleMac
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And here's my version (with some colorful chord voicings). One might take issue with the first bar of the [C] section, but I've found this progression to be very helpful to singers who have trouble recovering from the Bridge.
Spring Can Really Hang You Up The Most (C) - Tommy Wolf-Fran Landesman
Spring Can Really Hang You Up The Most (C) - Tommy Wolf-Fran Landesman
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Spring Can Really Hang You Up The Most (C) 2
Spring Can Really Hang You Up The Most (C)2 - Tommy Wolf-Fran Landesman
This is simplified from Spring Can Really Hang You Up The Most (C). The assumption is that, at most, only root, 3rd, and 7th of each chord get played. That keeps us from interfering with all the demolished 5ths, 9ths, etc etc.
Spring Can Really Hang You Up The Most (C)2 - Tommy Wolf-Fran Landesman
This is simplified from Spring Can Really Hang You Up The Most (C). The assumption is that, at most, only root, 3rd, and 7th of each chord get played. That keeps us from interfering with all the demolished 5ths, 9ths, etc etc.
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Sorry, it's too simplified. There are chords in the song that require a fifth or flatted fifth, particularly when the the melody is the fifth.
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And I would like to add another possibility for that. I have switched it over to 6/8. Actually really enjoy it there it gives it a little job that it’s always seemed lacking to me. Unfortunately IRP does not handle 6/8 very elegantly so you have to use your imagination a bit, but the feeling is there. Spring Can Really Hang You Up The Most 1 - Tommy Wolf
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engelbach
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That works perfectly, Bob.
However, iReal Pro doesn't treat 3/2 as 3/2, with three beats to the bar. It treats it as 6/4, with two groups of three beats each to the bar, which is why it works in your version.
So for notation, it's more accurate to use 6/4.
Cheers,
Jer
However, iReal Pro doesn't treat 3/2 as 3/2, with three beats to the bar. It treats it as 6/4, with two groups of three beats each to the bar, which is why it works in your version.
So for notation, it's more accurate to use 6/4.
Cheers,
Jer
