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All of Me, Django solo, II V I
philippe
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Hi,
I'm having trouble understanding a lick from Django's solo in All of Me.
It's a II-V-I that occurs around 1:00.
Dm G7 C
I---------5-I-8---------7-8-10-I-12---------------
I-------6---I--------10---------I------------------
I-7---7----I----8-9------------I------------------
I-----------I--------------------I------------------
I-----------I--------------------I------------------
I-----------I--------------------I------------------
No problem for the Dm, it is the minor arpeggio.
But on the G7...I'm lost.
This is not the diminished scale of G#.
I was thinking about diminished C# which is sometimes played by Django.
I would like to understand because it sounds really good.
Thank you for your lights!
Philippe
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This one?
Yes @ 1:06.
Ph
It's a voice leading concept. First arpeggios is outlining the Dmin, which you already figured out. The next arp is outlining is a diminished chord over G7, in this case D# diminished...and he resolves this to the E note on C (3rd of the C)
You can think of this as playing C dim over G7 too, a common old-style sound to resolve back to the home chord (C).
Denis Chang actually explains this phrase here and outlines the voice leading concept behind his at 7min https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bx5VTxv3uUA&t=68s
tbleen many thanks. It is crystal clear now thanks to MichMich aka Denis Chang :)
Ph
This is also in Duved's grab bag, and discussed in his Soundslice course "The 1930s Django sound", specifically in chapter The Django diminished sound.
Wim, exact !
I have the course of Duved and it is very good.
I think the basic idea behind playing the diminished before the major chord is to pass from the minor third to the major third which gives this Django flavor.
Ph