DAVIS MILES - "all blues" Tablature

From: tgannon@charlie.usd.edu (spideir)

-=> "ALL BLUES" <=- (Miles Davis)
*=========*

-- comp. Miles Davis & Bill Evans (from _Kind_of_Blue_, 1959)
-- guitar arr., tcg, '8?, '94
-- !6/8! // Key of G(7) // Moderately


-=>INTRO (and Vamp between each 12-Bar "Verse")--
(G7)
||-------------------------------||
||-------------------------------||
||o---0-----0-----0-----0-------o||
||o---0-----2-----3-----2-------o||
||-------------------------------||
||----3---3---3---3---3---3------||
1 & & 2 & &


-=>VERSE (12-Bar Blues)--
@ Measures 1-4::
G7 G13/11 G9 G13/11 [4x]
||-----------------.--------------------.--------||
||----3------------5------6=======------5--------||
||o---3h4p3h4p3h4--5------7=======------5-------o||
||o---3------------5------7=======------5-------o||
||-----------------------------------------------||
||----===trill===--------------------------------||
1 & & 2 & &

@ Measures 5-6::
C13/11 C C13/11 CM7[*] C13/11 C C13/11 C
|---------------.-----------------.--|---------------.-----------------.--|
|---3======-----5-----6======-----8--|---6======-----5-----3======-----5--|
|---3======-----5-----7======-----9--|---7======-----5-----3======-----5--|
|---3======-----5-----7======-----9--|---7======-----5-----3======-----5--|
|------------------------------------|------------------------------------|
|------------------------------------|------------------------------------|
1 & & 2 & & 1 & & 2 & &

[variation for C measures: ||: --333- --555- --677- --555- :|| 2x
(i.e., same as G7 measure, without the major 3rd)]
[*sic: whole "C" chordal series better considered as Gm-type chords...]


@ Measures 7-8 (G7...): a` la measures 1-4, but only 2ce thru...


@ Measures 9-10::
D7#9 Eb7#9 D7#9
|------------------------------------|------------------------------------|
|---------------------6============--|---7============-----6============--|
|---------------------5============--|---6============-----5============--|
|---------------------4============--|---5============-----4============--|
|---5=====------5============-----5--|---6============-----5============--|
|------------------------------------|------------------------------------|
1 & & 2 & & 1 & & 2 & &


@ Measures 11-12::
G7/11 GM6/9[G13] G7/11 G7/6[*]
|---1============-----3============--|---1============-----0============--||
|---1============-----3============--|---1============-----0============--||
|---0============-----2============--|---0============--------------------||
|------------------------------------|---------------------3============--||
|------------------------------------|------------------------------------||
|---3======-----3-----3======-----3--|---3======-----3-----3======-----3--||
1 & & 2 & & 1 & & 2 & &

[* or: 3-345-]

--SEQUENCE: Intro--||: Verse--Intro :||--Verse(fade out)--

-=>Miles' "head"-ish LEAD over the twelve-bar pretty easy to follow on
the guitar, especially if yu' start at the VIIth position, e.g.--

(G7)
||-----|--7============------|--7---8-7========----------------------
||-----|---------------------|---------------------------------------
||--/7-|------------------/7-|------------------------------- tcg ---
||-----|---------------------|------------------------------- '94 ---
||-----|---------------------|---------------------------------------
||-----|---------------------|---------------------------------------
& 1 & & 2 & & 1 & & 2

--but then, this is JAZZ, 'n'you're supPOSED to improvize yourself! . . .
(but a final note: if you're playin' as "slow & tasty" as Miles himself
does over some sections, Wes-style octaves are awfully nice. . . .)


|
--:--tcg
)