Petits Mensonges

kevingcox

Hey, this song caught my ear the other day and I decided to take a crack at the changes listening to the Django version from Integrale 10, which is the only one I know/have.

Can anyone who knows it comment on what I came up with?

Bones

I have not really checked that one out very thoroughly but I think it's their take on Little White Lies.

Heres and grille for that one.

http://www.ralphpatt.com/VB/l12.html

I'm not sure about this though. Maybe someone else who is more familiar with it can chime in.

Jon

The Django recording is interesting in terms of his interpretation of the harmony. It sounds like in the head they're playing I-iv for the first few bars, with the I being pretty straight major, so that you get stable-tension-stable-tension-stable. But in the solo, Django clearly and insistently plays a Bb note almost every time that Cmaj I chord comes around, making the first chord a dominant and a tension, which resolves to the Fmin (the iv) in the second bar. It sort of reverses the tension release pattern of I-iv-I, resolving on the odd bars, instead of the even ones, and not really resolving back to a I until bar 5. Interesting that he chooses to do this in the solo, while there's no trace of it in the head. The fact that he's so insistent about it is fairly convincing evidence that he was really trying to establish that sound as something different. It's an odd effect at first, but the more you listen to it and think about it, the more awesome it gets

Interesting too the changes he plays on the first four bars of the bridge - the original tune (Little White Lies) would have gone to Major there, but he plays minor, which - it could be argued - makes the tune a little more bland, but pretty all the same.

Good one Django! Never gets old.