Reharmonization is something we sometimes use to get a little more out of existing material. Take a simple melody and share a reharm this weekend. You don’t have to write a lot. Just do a few bars to give us something to think about and analyze. Here’s a simple one. Twinkle Twinkle Little Star. If you want to, someone just do the next 4 bars of this. Continue the idea in Bb and get us back to G. Then maybe another victim will do the last 4 bars and bingo….we’re talking shop!
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Beautiful Linwood!
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Thanks, buddy. Nothing to it. Fun stuff to explore even if it is just TTLS. If you have time, bang one out for grins.
Bueller?? lol
One of the things my composition instructor does with the students each semester (he is imho one if not the top jazz pianist/composer in Houston) - he plays four bars of quite complex harmony and asks us to identify it. Turns out to be Happy Birthday. Try that one :)
Million ways to play a melody...
https://www.stage32.com/photos/3278721600337225680
....or your kid just got an invitation to Chucky's third birthday party. The point is, reharm is a useful tool we have in the toolbox and worth talking about and sharing how we might go about it.
http://www.linwoodbell.com/clientdownloads/HappyB.mp3
What a cool idea, Linwood Bell!