Intro To Hungaria

pdg

Me too. (Though I've always played major 6!)

Buco

It doesn't really matter, it moves so fast. Either will work. Bass line is what gives it meaning.

pdg

Okay, what are the chords to this off-the-wall intro to Hungaria by Bireli some years back (at 4:40)?

https://youtu.be/bIktG5aMklc?feature=shared

spatzo

He just plays shell chords

Exactly => G, D7/A, G/B, C-, G/B, D7/A, G, D7 (double D => x50xxx)

G = 3x24xx

D7/A = 5x45xx

G/B = 7x57xx

C- = 8x78xx

and back to end on...

D7 = x50xxx

Scoredog

Went back and listened and I have been playing it incorrectly... it is C-6

pdg

Interesting that, as jazz musicians, we modify the melody (and even abandon it) constantly, but apart from "chord substitutions" we don't feel that we can modify the harmony -- i.e., the basic underlying chords. (We take those as given.) E.g., what if you like C6 better than Cm6?

wim

Whoa. I’ve played that as C6 for probably 20 years. Embarrassing.

Scoredog

https://www.djangobooks.com/forum/discussion/comment/122033#Comment_122033

I am hearing both ways depending on who's doing it. Certainly easier to play as the minor but I think that either is good.

Absolutely hear the E on the C6 here.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=coT-nfgysRY

We are such nerds!