Crazy 1-6-2-5 chords from Ray Charles and Count Basie

If you're working on reharm ideas, you've got to listen to big bands/orchestras. In this video we see how Ray Charles and Count Basie turn four chords into a very complex idea.
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[@galadragot]

thank you so much for this video!!!! amazing!!

[@AlfredJrMusic]

Thank you for watching!

[@josemanuelmonterolacasa1097]

man... really underrated. thanks for this! very informational and useful :)

[@AlfredJrMusic]

Thank you! And thank you for watching!

[@MarkyD.Ingram]

I think the reason why your example was too annoying to deal with was that they deliberately had a melody that was just steps up until they resolved it later, while yours had a step immediately with the F to A if you wanted those to be the roots of a major triad you'd have to have some you'd have to have a leap of a third or some funky descending melody. Actually, thinking more on it I don't think you could get away without the leaps if you wanted to maintain the melody as the root of the triads. It'd still be neat to see what you could make of that while still maintaining those as roots, but it'd probably end up being fairly different from the Basie example. TLDR; Basie work cause stepwise movement the leaps seemed to only be effective in a resolution? Honestly, take with a grain of salt I don't know shit. :D cool video tho

[@AlfredJrMusic]

Definitely a fair point with my improv melody. Would definitely be interesting to continue that using major triad inversions tho. But thank you I appreciate the input and thanks for watching