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Re: Stella suggestions..
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Eddie
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Here are some thoughts on Stella. The first thing I do when approaching a new tune is listen to recorded versions of the tune and if possible refer to the original sheet music changes. The reason I do this is so I get a clearer idea of what the composer intended for the tune and harmony. Stella is on of the tunes in the real book which has someone else's reharmonisations of the original changes. Nothing wrong with that, but the original changes give a much clearer picture of the composers intent and hence what scale/arpeggio approaches may be best. A quick look over your suggested approach looks fine. A Few Thoughts.. The first thing that most people think when they look at Stella is that the changes seem strange. First 16 Bars (Based on the Real Book chart) Emi7b5 | A7b9 | Cmi7 |F7 Fmi7 | Bb7 | Ebmaj7 |Ab7 Bb Maj7 | Emin7b5 A7b9 | Dmin7 |Bbmin7 Eb7 F Maj7 | Emin7b5 A7 | Amin7b5 | D7b9 Questions Why does Em7b5|A7b9 not go to Dm7 or even Dmaj7 ? Why does the Ab7 (4th bar) not go to Dbmaj7 or Dbmin7 ? Answers The original sheet music (and players who didn't grow up with the real book!) play for the first two bars Bbdim7. Now Bbdim7 = Edim7 = Dbdim7 = Gdim7. Or you can think of them as Edim7/Bb, Dbdim7/Bb, Gdim7/Bb. I think I recall one of the Aebersold volumes uses these changes. Probably somewhere along the line someone was playing Edim7/Bb and noticed that they could change one note and end up with Em7b5. Cool they thought! So if that works what about about making the second bar A7 just to add some harmonic movement. The point of all this is that the first Em7b5 A7b9 still function as a Bbdim7 Chord. The Bbdim7 chord can either be thought of as Idim7 or with reference to the following chord Cm7 (iim7) as Dbdim7/Bb the iiibdim7 going to the iim7. So what's this Ab7 ? Well it's an Ebm6/Ab (the old plagal cadence) Giving us IVMaj7, ivmin7 to IMaj7. Which means that Eb Melodic Minor is probably the best choice. Turning to the rest of the chart my preference for short (1 bar) minor ii - V sequences is to use Harmonic Minor rather than Melodic. So for Em7b5 A7b9 in one bar I would tend to use D Harmonic Minor. For long (1 bar each) minor ii - V I would use the melodic scales as you have indicated. Alisdair MacRae Birch Jazz Guitarist --- In jazz_guitar@y..., Eddie Low <eddie@l...> wrote:
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