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From: tgannon@charlie.usd.edu (spideir)
"So What" (Miles Davis)--opening "theme"
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-- comp. Miles Davis & Bill Evans (from _Kind_of_Blue_, 1959)
-- guitar arr., tcg, '8?, '94
-- 4/4 // Keys: Dm; Ebm // Allegro
__3__
-- eighth notes (1 &) are "swing" 8ths: closer to 1 & & . . . .
DAH duh
-- what follows is the opening of the tune (after some Debussy-esque
ad-lib piano diddling by Evans), apparently the only pre-composed
part of the song; it's a neat interplay of bluesy bass and quartal
piano chords, both integrated into the following guitar "arrangement":
Form (32-bar): ||: A (8 measures) - A (8) - B (8) - A (8) :||
{pick-up measure} A:: Em7/11 Dm7/11 Em7/11 Dm7/11
-----------------||----------7==---5--|------------------|----------7==---5-|
-----------------||----------8==---6--|------------------|----------8==---6-|
-----------------||o---------7==---5--|------------------|----------7==---5-|
-----------------||o---------7==---5--|------------------|----------7==---5-|
----------5-/7---||--5==-----7==---5--|----------5-/7----|--5-------7==---5-|
--3/5-7-8------8-||-------------------|--3/5-7-8------8--|----5==-----------|
1 & 2 & 3 & 4 & 1 & 2 & 3 & 4 & 1 & 2 & 3 & 4 & 1 & 2 & 3 & 4 &
Em7/11 Dm7/11 Em7/11 Dm7/11
|------------------|---------7==---5--|------------------|----------7==---5-|
|------------------|---------8==---6--|------------------|----------7==---5-|
|------------------|---------7==---5--|------------------|----------7==---5-|
|------------------|---------7==---5--|------------------|----------7==---5-|
|----------5-/7----|-5==-----7==---5--|---5/7--/7--/7-5==|==5==-----7==---5-|
|--3/5-7-8------8--|------------------|------------------|------------------|
1 & 2 & 3 & 4 & 1 & 2 & 3 & 4 & 1 & 2 & 3 & 4 & 1 & 2 & 3 & 4 &
__________________ __________________
| 1. [repeat A]| 2. [to B->]
|-----------------||------------------|-
|-----------------||------------------|-
|----------------o||------------------|-
|----------------o||------------------|-
|----------5-/7---||----------6-/8----|-
|--3/5-7-8------8-||--4/6-8-9------9--|-
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