[Miles Davis] So what

[zoutek]

Un truc fun a jouer et ca délie bien les doigts

 

[Slash]

Et le rythme est expliquée a ne pas confondre avec celle de Metallica

 

-- comp. Miles Davis & Bill Evans (from _Kind_of_Blue_, 1959)
  -- guitar arr., tcg, '8?, '94
  -- 4/4 // Keys: Dm; Ebm // Allegro
                                                    __3__
  -- eighth notes (1 &) are "swing" 8ths: closer to 1 & & . . . .
                                                    DAH duh
  -- what follows is the opening of the tune (after some Debussy-esque
      ad-lib piano diddling by Evans), apparently the only pre-composed
      part of the song; it's a neat interplay of bluesy bass and quartal
      piano chords, both integrated into the following guitar "arrangement":

Form (32-bar): ||: A (8 measures) - A (8) - B (8) - A (8) :||

{pick-up measure}  A::    Em7/11 Dm7/11                         Em7/11 Dm7/11
-----------------||----------7==---5--|------------------|----------7==---5-|
-----------------||----------8==---6--|------------------|----------8==---6-|
-----------------||o---------7==---5--|------------------|----------7==---5-|
-----------------||o---------7==---5--|------------------|----------7==---5-|
----------5-/7---||--5==-----7==---5--|----------5-/7----|--5-------7==---5-|
--3/5-7-8------8-||-------------------|--3/5-7-8------8--|----5==-----------|
1 & 2 & 3 &  4 &     1 & 2 & 3 & 4 &   1 & 2 & 3 &  4 &     1 & 2 & 3 & 4 &

                          Em7/11 Dm7/11                         Em7/11 Dm7/11
|------------------|---------7==---5--|------------------|----------7==---5-|
|------------------|---------8==---6--|------------------|----------7==---5-|
|------------------|---------7==---5--|------------------|----------7==---5-|
|------------------|---------7==---5--|------------------|----------7==---5-|
|----------5-/7----|-5==-----7==---5--|---5/7--/7--/7-5==|==5==-----7==---5-|
|--3/5-7-8------8--|------------------|------------------|------------------|
 1 & 2 & 3 &  4 &    1 & 2 & 3 & 4 &    1 & 2 & 3 & 4 &     1 & 2 & 3 & 4 &

 __________________ __________________
| 1.     [repeat A]| 2.       [to B->]
|-----------------||------------------|-
|-----------------||------------------|-
|----------------o||------------------|-
|----------------o||------------------|-
|----------5-/7---||----------6-/8----|-
|--3/5-7-8------8-||--4/6-8-9------9--|-
 1 & 2 & 3 &  4 &   1 & 2 & 3 &  4 &

B::    Fm7/11 Ebm7/11                        Fm7/11 Ebm7/11
|---------8==---6--|------------------|----------8==---6-|------------------|
|---------9==---7--|------------------|----------9==---7-|------------------|
|---------8==---6--|------------------|----------8==---6-|------------------|
|---------8==---6--|------------------|----------8==---6-|------------------|
|-6==-----8==---6--|----------6-/8----|--6-------8==---6-|----------6-/8----|
|------------------|--4/6-8-9------9--|----6==-----------|--4/6-8-9------9--|
  1 & 2 & 3 & 4 &   1 & 2 & 3 &  4 &     1 & 2 & 3 & 4 &  1 & 2 & 3 &  4 &

       Fm7/11 Ebm7/11                        Fm7/11 Ebm7/11          [to A->]
|---------8==---6--|------------------|----------8==---6-|-----------------||
|---------9==---7--|------------------|----------9==---7-|-----------------||
|---------8==---6--|------------------|----------8==---6-|----------------o||
|---------8==---6--|------------------|----------8==---6-|----------------o||
|-6==-----8==---6--|----------6-/8----|--6-------8==---6-|----------5-/7---||
|------------------|--4/6-8-9------9--|----6==-----------|--3/5-7-8------8-||
  1 & 2 & 3 & 4 &   1 & 2 & 3 &  4 &     1 & 2 & 3 & 4 &  1 & 2 & 3 &  4 &

----------------
... rest of tune a free-form improv over the same A-A-B-A 32-bar form: two
8-bar sections ("A-A") of Dm dorian, 8 bars of Ebm dorian ("B"), and 8 more
bars ("A") of Dm dorian. The bass starts "walking," the piano comps/
ad-libs quartal-modal chord voicings, and Miles & the other horn players
take leads in Dm & Ebm Dorian. (Dorian in Dm: d-e-f-g-a-b-c-d; Eb Dorian
a half-step higher). . . . Here's the start of Miles' lead, to give you a
better idea (note that the D dorian scale "fits" whether the chord is Dm7/11
or Em7/11: both consist of notes from this very scale)--

{pick-up}  A::
-10=====-||------------------|------------------|------>
---------||------------------|------10-8----10--|-------
---------||--7============---|--10--------------|--7-7===
---------||------------------|------------------|---------
---------||------------------|------------------|----------
---------||------------------|------------------|----------->
 3 & 4 &     1   2   3   4     1 & 2 & 3 & 4 &     1 & 2 &

[zoutek]

C'est pas la meme tab que dans la vidéo mais bon ...