GREEN DOLPHIN STREET
Tritonic Reharmonization
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Green Dolphin Street
follows an A B A C form. I use
the standard key of C major for the melody of this reharm. There is a repeating
sequence of chord changes moving from the key of C to the key of Ab, followed by a II - V sequence
into Eb, which is also used for the vamp. The vamp can serve as an intro, tag,
and transition from head to solos, or even between solos. Nine of twelve keys
are used, with the tritonic group A, Db, F being the only one missing.
I had to tweak the melody
in small ways, with no change in rhythmic approach. In bar two of both A
sections, the E becomes an Eb. In the second A section, the Db in bar six is
changed to a C. The reharm assumes that the melody matches the version of the
original in the A sections where a full measure of the chord D in bar five is
followed by a full measure of the chord Db in bar six, with the Ab melody note
sounding on the downbeat of bar six.
The fine is on the Eb
in the seventh bar of the C section, unless you want to return to the vamp as an
outro. Here are my
changes:
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Vamp ||:
C Eb7 | Ab
B+7 | G-7 C7
| F-7 Bb7 :||
Turnaround to A section || Eb
| Ab-7 Db7 ||
A
Gb | C-7 F7 | Bb
Db7 | Gb A7b9,13
| D | Ab-7 Db7 |
C Eb7 | Ab B+7 ||
B G-7 C7 |
F-7 Bb7 | Eb |
C#-7 F#7
| Bmaj7#5 | F-7 Bb7b9,13
| Eb | D-7 G7b9,13 ||
A C Eb7 |
Ab B+7 | E* |
F-7 Bb7
| Eb F#7#9,13 | B
D7#9,13 | G F7 |
E7#9 Eb7 ||
C Abmaj7#5 |
D-7 G7b9,13 | C Eb7 |
Ab B+7 | G-7 C7 |
F-7 Bb7
| Eb | Ab-7 Db7 ||
*The E can be
replaced by G-7 C7 to maintain the pattern of the vamp changes, in
heads, solos or both.
During the solos, the altered
9,13 tensions are
dropped from the 7th chords, except in the last bar of the second A (E7#9). The
augmented chords are true augmented chords, having natural 9 and sharp 11 as
tensions, and the whole tone scale as a chord scale. Have fun! [
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