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Songs featuring "line clichés"


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This week I started a two-part series about songs that feature a so-called "line cliché".
The first parts includes these transcriptions:

Tom Petty - Into The Great Wide Open
Beatles - Dear Prudence
John Barry - James Bond Theme

Take a look:

[url="http://four-strings-basslessons.blogspot.de/2013/10/weekly-basslines-125-line-cliches-part-1.html"]http://four-strings-...hes-part-1.html[/url]

Do you know any other songs featuring line clichés???

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From a jazz point of view:

My Funny Valentine:

Cmin | Cminmaj7 | Cmin7 Cmin6 | (although I much prefer C min | G7 | Cmin7 | F7 | or the Miles Davis version Cmin | Ab7 G7 | Cmin7 | F7#11)


In The Wee Small Hours Of The Morning:

Cmaj7 C7 |Fmaj7 Bb7 | for the first two bars, but could be rewritten as Cmaj7 C7 | C6 C+ |

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Yes! My Funny Valentine can be played with this kind of "line cliché". It could be seen as a kind of reharmonising the chords by using the tool of line clichés.

On this site of berklee college you can download a pdf-file on this subject:

[url="http://www.berkleeshares.com/songwriting__arranging/line_cliches_jazz_reharmonization"]http://www.berkleesh...reharmonization[/url]


I've just finished the second part of my little workshop on "line cliches".

This time it includes one of the most beautiful basslines I've ever heard by [b]Oteil Burbridge[/b] in the song "[b]Midnight In Harlem[/b]" by the [b]Tedeschi Trucks Band[/b]. Amazing!

[url="http://four-strings-basslessons.blogspot.de/2013/11/weekly-basslines-126-line-cliches-part-2.html"]http://four-strings-...hes-part-2.html[/url]

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