Donna Lee - the chords

bopster

Oops. Here's the video:

Jim Kaznosky

These are the chord forms I see Benoit used. I did it awhile ago by ear and never wrote it down, but these should be all of the chords you will need. Mind you, I am assuming you have the chart for the tune. I did not write down every single chord in order...I noted when to use a chord form. At this point, you should take the video to a slow downer. Hope this helps.

T1mothy

Wow, that is some unexpectedly detailed help.
Bopster, thanks for the great video! Stuart, thanks for the different voicing tip and Jim, thank you for sharing the charts with me.
I want to thank all of you for taking your time to help a newbie!
Timothy

Jim Kaznosky

Not sure if my chord names are correct, but you are welcome. It was a very clear video.

jonpowl

Gypsy Jazz Play Along - Chord changes to Donna Lee
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Bones

I think it is essentially the same form as Back Home in Indiana? That's one of the tricks that beboppers (and others) used- take a harmonic structure from another song and put a new melody on top of it.

Jazzaferri

Donna Lee is based on that tunes @Bones..... according to Mark Levine...author of the Jazz Theory Book.

Lango-Django

Yup, same chords as "Indiana" except transposed from F to Ab.

There's an old joke about two jazz musicians sitting in a diner, reading a newspaper.

"Hmmm, look at this headline: 'Three die in Indiana bridge disaster'"

"No way! Indiana doesn't have a bridge!"

bopster

Great one Lango-Django!

Jazzaferri

Lays out a little better on alto in Ab. Lowest note on the horn is the 5 of the tonic. That and its a really cool sounding key are my guess as to the reasons bird chose Ab