Monk's Dream

rafael on 2003-04-01T14:14:14

More bluesy than it sounds :

C7M / Em° / Bbdim7 / -
C7M / Em° / Bbdim7 / -
C7M / Em° / Bbdim7 / A7
Ab7 / G7 / F#7 / -


And in real money?

nicholas on 2003-04-03T13:17:21

C7M / Em° / Bbdim7

Do you know of any online translation tools that can covert guitar chord symbols to the list of notes? I can find things that want to do fretboard positions, but as I'm not a guitar player that's not very helpful (and I'd really prefer not to have to do the next stage of translation by counting semitones from the note each string is tuned from). I do chords on keyboard intruments, you see :-)

Square Score

rafael on 2003-04-03T14:40:16

The notes would be :
C7M : C-E-G-B
Em° : E-G-Bb-Db
Bbdim7 : Bb-D-E-Ab
A7 : A-C#-E-G
und so weiter.

-- The other day, I was sitting on the piano, enjoying five minutes of quietness, and began to try to play Monk's Dream, a tune composed by Thelonious Monk in 1952 or 3. I came up rapidly with those chords, sort of. They appear to work strangely together, sounding both unusual and familiar, orienting the improvisation in unexpected paths. Monk's Dream is known to have caused problems to the contemporaries of Monk, unlike some other of his compositions that were regularly played by Charlie Parker, Miles Davis or Dizzy Gillespie. (And I'm known to be compulsively obsessed by Monk's music since I'm 15.)

Re:Square Score

runrig on 2003-04-03T18:24:35

Bbdim7 : Bb-D-E-Ab
That should be: Bb-Db-E-Ab, though technically it's Bb-Db-Fb-Ab.

Re:Square Score

runrig on 2003-04-03T18:33:02

And actually according to this guitar chord site the Ab should be G (so maybe Abb?).

Re:Square Score

runrig on 2003-04-03T19:36:58

Bbdim7 : Bb-D-E-Ab
If you really do mean those notes, it'd be "Bb7(b5)".

Re:Square Score

rafael on 2003-04-03T20:53:34

I do, you're right. It's been a long time since I last read scores...