Songe D'Automne Chord voicings

hanear21

I am having a hard time figuring out the voicings for the chords at the beginning of this song. In the fakebook it is written like this: C- /B /Bb /A Ab etc.....It's this first part I can't figure out. I'm sure there are a ton of ways to do this. Any suggestions?

Bones

Can you post the chart and I'll have a look but I think it's just a walk down of the bass note over a Cm chord.

I think the song is 'typically' played in Am though.

hanear21

Here's the chart in question: http://screencast.com/t/2y7o4dpwt

Passacaglia

Le bump. I'm having a hard time figuring this one out as well. I'm using the Rosenberg's Roots version, but can't figure the slash/walkdown, in Cm (. Anyone?

-Actually, just messing around, and this is probably whacked, but... Cm, Bm/5+, Gm, Cm6/G:

335543
335433
335333
33x24x
-for the first 4 measures, then an Ab6, Fm6, C#07, G7 for the next 4.

Bones

Here's how I'd play it but I have small hands:

8 10 10 8 x x
8 10 9 8 x x
8 x 8 8 x x
8 x 7 8 x x

If you have a big, strong reach you could do this but I can't reach it in 1st position for Cm (but if I move it up a couple frets for Dm I can)

3 x 1 5 x x
3 x 1 4 x x
3 x 1 3 x x
3 x 1 2 x x

Passacaglia

Thanks, Bones. The first position sounds great (and this is really a deficit, why I concentrate on rhythm...without the ability to construct even simpler variations...I'm pretty limited....tone and timekeeping is obviously not "enough.") I had the higher walkdown from Cm to Cm6, but for some reason the 7th was bugging me.

Buco

Charts and chords for this song always sounded clumsy to me. Always felt they just don't fit nicely with the melody. Does anyone else feel this way? So today I set out about improving them and this is what I ended up with.

Songe D'Automne dc-1.pdf

First A I play C- with the 5th string root and move the notes on the g string (in the audio intro I move the bass notes on the 5th and 6th strings) and second B I play C- with the 6th string root to get to Gdim which is one of chord changes I made. And so on, I'll get more into it if there's interest. I recorded a quick take to hear what it sounds like together with the melody. And it sounds fine to me, better. I learned the melody just now so that can be played better. I didn't try to transcribe one of the famous versions to see what the pros are playing.

songe d' mix 2 100%.mp3

Lango-Django

I often use 3-note chord fingerings for bass walk downs which I learned many years ago from a Johnny Smith chord manual... I don't know how commonly used these are in Gj...?

Cm 8X58XX

Cm/B 7X58XX

Cm7 6X58XX

Cm6 5X58XX (or 5655XX)

Or alternately...

Cm 3X15XX

Cm/B 3X14XX

Cm7 3X13XX

Cm6 3X12XX

... the second one is tough to finger near the nut but gets more usable higher up the fingerboard...

Will