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Topic: Jazz Organ Chords Help - Frank Sinatra  (Read 1232 times)

Offline sajapro

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Jazz Organ Chords Help - Frank Sinatra
on: November 05, 2014, 08:41:05 PM
Next week I have performance with my band.
We took song from Frank Sinatra - "Can't take my eyes of you"
I would like to play some jazz organ sound on my Nord Electro 3 keyboard.
If someone have experience with organ, pls help me :)

Offline indianajo

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Re: Jazz Organ Chords Help - Frank Sinatra
Reply #1 on: November 07, 2014, 01:45:46 AM
You need to sign up for organforum.com and look at this sub-forum:
https://www.organforum.com/forums/forumdisplay.php?84-Practice-amp-Performance-Rock-Blues-Pop-amp-Jazz
There is a whole thread on left hand bass and comping, and some ideas from graeme are quite theorecital.  
I attack this kind of material by listening to a track at the piano, then trying things, then writing down the chords that work.  I can't remember the chords that work versus the wrong ones well enough now without writing them down.  Things I worked out a year ago, I'm losing again because I don't have the image of the chords in my head well enough without paper (Autumm Leaves).
They say the best fake book is the Berkeley college "Real Fake Book" now published by a big music company, (Leonard?) but I don't know if this one is in it.  Sinatra blessed material is as expensive as a copywrite could get, I've never seen any of his material in any fake book I own. OrganForum does have a downloadable fake book, the django, which appears to be French with English language lyrics.  
I don't think Sinatra had the hit on this anyway.  I think is was some female singer from the sixties, Vicky Carr maybe?  Helen Forest?  I remember it from the radio, KULF AM used to play it when I was in college 68-72.  It might have been a counter tenor like Wayne Newton; we didn't know in those days before video if the artists were male or female sometimes.  Those songs, the announcer never announced the artist, to leave you with your illusions.  Call Me and Rockin Robin were two other androgynous songs. 
Good luck.  
 

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