Georg

Hallo! Solar (written by Miles, Bill or Chuck Wayne) derives from How High the Moon. The important notes of the melody and the changes show that clearly. Look, the changes are identical from bar 3 to bar 11, if you consider bar 10/11 as a tritone substitution of the original chords. But how How High The Moon happend to be a "Blues"? My opinion: Bill (it must have be Bill to check that sophisticated idea) did a short cut and went back to the top or he continues for the next two bars of How High, it´s all the same situation. There you find the tonic of How High: Gma7! Now spell the notes: G - B - D - F#, then drop down the F# an octave, build the tritone of that F#, it´s C, and you have a nice Cma7 power chord. Just fill in the decent thirt, much nicer a minor thirt, than a major. How it really happened, who knows? This is what the music is telling: A journey from the moon to the sun, from Sonny to Solar. Regards Georg