MELODIC STUDIES- NARDIS
Saturday, October 3rd, 2009
“Nardis” by Bill Evans is one of my favorite compositions. i love the way the chords move, as well as the feeling the melody evokes. i thought it would be interesting to do the same thing i did on a recent post where i took the melody of “Body And Soul” and transposed it diatonically. “Nardis” presents some challenges because there are several notes in the melody that don’t belong to the harmony. for example, in the second measure, there are D#’s that don’t belong to the FMaj chord. in measure seven, there’s an F that doesn’t belong to the EMaj chord. in the third and fourth measures of the original melody, the B is held through the B7 and CMaj chords. the note will sometimes change from chord to chord as the melody is transposed diatonically. i put those notes in parentheses. like i said before, playing through these transpositions reveals other aspects of the original melody…
