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Author:  sid thomas Posted:  6/24/01; 10:57:47 AM Topic:  I Thought About You Msg#:  1949 (in response to 1887) Prev/Next:  1948/1950 Reads:  2488

Hello Dave and Jerry:

This is my first contribution to the trellis, so forgive me if it's something you already know, or that someone else has already posted.  The common alternative changes for I Thought About You substitute (key Eb) A-7b5 for the Eb chord in the first bar.  Then if you use the tritone substitution for the second and fourth chords (Ab7 instead of D7, Gb7 instead of C7) you have a bassline with a nice chromatic walk (A-Ab-G-Gb-F).  The trick of replacing a major 7 chord with the minor 7 flat 5 (or half-diminshed) of its tritone works for quite a few tunes.

• Re: I Thought About You - alternate changes, David Luebbert, 6/25/01; 6:37:59 PM
  • I Thought About You - alternate changes #2, David Luebbert, 6/25/01; 11:54:28 PM
    • Re: I Thought About You - alternate changes #2, Todd Singleton, 12/24/01; 3:23:51 PM

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