On Sep 11, 2005, at 5:05 PM, John Howell wrote:
At 2:00 PM -0700 9/9/05, ThomaStudios wrote:
With this info it now seems like an Fm6, even with the E suspended.
I've seen progressions like this in old, old lead sheets where the
editors could NOT read bass clef, and only saw the chord shape in the
treble.
This is predictable in the music of Richard Rodgers, who I assume
could read bass clef just fine! It was just his way (unless, of
course, the chord symbols were added by his publishers and were not
his in the first place).
Those old lead sheets and piano-vocal editions had chord symbols that
ignored the bass note because they were ukelele chords. The ukelelist
was expected to be reading over the pianist's shoulder, so that the
piano completed the chord. Even when the uke was out of fashion,
publishers continued to put uke-type chord symbols until into the 60's,
when the guitar was more popular. Yet even then they often put
simplified chord symbols and fretboard diagrams, rather than idiomatic
guitar voicings that a pro might have played.
The moral is, read the piano music, and even then, take it with a grain
of salt. Some of those piano arrangements were meant to be played by
Grandma and Grandma Potts in Pumpkin Center, Iowa, not professional
musicians.
Christopher
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