From: owner-joni-digest@smoe.org (JMDL Digest) To: joni-digest@smoe.org Subject: JMDL Digest V2013 #1277 Reply-To: joni@smoe.org Sender: owner-joni-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-joni-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk Unsubscribe:mailto:joni-digest-request@smoe.org?body=unsubscribe Website:http://jonimitchell.com JMDL Digest Saturday, September 7 2013 Volume 2013 : Number 1277 ========== TOPICS and authors in this Digest: -------- Re: Singing Joni [Laura Stanley ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Sat, 7 Sep 2013 07:19:01 -0500 From: Laura Stanley Subject: Re: Singing Joni Thanks Laurie! This is very cool! Love, Laura Date: Fri, 6 Sep 2013 02:10:33 -0700 From: Laurie Antonioli Subject: Re: JMDL Digest V2013 #1265 Hi Everyone, As a jazz singer, it's common place, and expected to change the keys of "standards" to suit the singers' voice. The fact is, most Great American Songbook tunes where written by men and are often in "male" keys. As such, we change the keys to suit our particular range, expect to and don't feel the least bit guilty about it! Joni is our maker of great songs that fall into the category of the new "standards." As such, changing keys, something I do and even Joni has done in later years, does not take away from the composition in any way. You can do all her material in a key that is comfortable. Those early keys, for me, are remarkable - she was singing so high that it boggles the mind and few, very few, singers can perform in that range and actually sound "good." Even though I worship at the feet of our great lady, some of those high keys to me these days sound "too high" for my personal taste. The tunings can be brought down one or two steps. It's all relative and it's all legit in the scheme of things. The "cheater" way to transpose is easy: You want to go down 3 or 4 steps do this - set up with a transposition cheat sheet as follows, find your first note, find the note/key you want to go to and then make a half-step helper: Ab = F A = Gb Bb = G B = Ab C = A Db = Bb D = B Eb = C E = Db F = D Gb = Eb G = E Ab = F Just go up or down the scale in half steps, make your "chart" and then change the keys. Does this make sense? This little half step chart is something I show to students when transposing charts to double check their work. Sent from my iPhone ------------------------------ End of JMDL Digest V2013 #1277 ****************************** ------- To post messages to the list, sendtojoni@smoe.org. Unsubscribe by clicking here: mailto:joni-digest-request@smoe.org?body=unsubscribe -------