Like Someone in Love

In a Hague lesson he called it one movement you really should know: a major chord goes to its relative minor, then to that minor with the sixth in the bass, which is a half-diminished chord. He said you find it in a lot of songs, and named Like Someone in Love first, then I Love You and Stella by Starlight.

Borrowed diminished notes on All the Things You Are13:2614:0814:4116:15

He sang a phrase of the tune to point out that the same move comes back in a later part of it. Working the move on Stella in the same lesson, he said some players go straight to the minor with the sixth in the bass, but he goes to the plain minor first.

Borrowed diminished notes on All the Things You Are13:2615:21

The workbook to his first workshop video has a section called ‘Major – Minor – Minor/6’ in its chapter on movable chords for piano and guitar, applied to Stella by Starlight, Like Someone in Love and I Remember You.

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At his 2008 clinic in Spain, in a clip whose description names this tune and Just One of Those Things, he told the players the music is not exact and the main thing is to groove: the bass player only began to sound like a real bass player once he patted his foot and kept the tempo.

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