Post #355210 by professahhummingflowah on Tue, Jan 15, 2008 9:21 PM

Now, having got that off my chest, where did the wrong note come from in SOME arrangements of Adventures in Paradise?. In the key of C on the words "called evermore" on a G7th chord GGAG is what it should be, following the "one lovely shore" GGAbG .. on an Eb chord .
One Professional arrangement gives the same notes for both lines presumably because the A note in the bar AFTER the Ab, DOESN'T have a natural sign preceding it. (It doesn't need to)

If someone doesn't point out these type of errors, they may become the norm for the next generation and in a few years there could be quite perceivable changes made to tunes.

It's interesting to note that the same doesn't apply to lyrics to the same extent, maybe it's because the record company's office secretary can notice the wrong words when writing them out for the inevitable "Song Book".
It would also seem that nowadays, the artist and producers are NOT so diligent regarding the lyrics or melody as they were in the Golden era of Hawaii Calls etc.

Maybe I should cite a few examples, and hopefully in doing so I'll try not to be disrespectful to the particular artist.
What do you think, should I post a few examples of major blunders by major artists ? not meaning to demean, but just illustrate the point?

Hi Basilh,

Which recordings of "Adv. in Paradise" are you referring to? I'd love to hear what you're talking about; it's hard to get a sense of this directly over the bulletin board. We do that tune in Waitiki, since the very beginning of the band. We've experimented with some reharmonization of it also. I think I have a couple different recordings of us doing the melody over the years that you could check out. I agree with you on the due diligence part; it's unfortunate (and too often, typical) that sloppiness makes its way into habit and then into tradition. However, sometimes what sounds like a wrong note could actually be the artist's choice.

For example, we made slight changes to the melody of Martin Denny's "Manila" and recorded it as such: We don't resolve the appoggiatura in the first bar of the A sections (following ascending scale), but do so in the third bar; Denny's appoggiaturas both resolve. (In terms of form, there are differences that we make also. The Denny recording starts in D minor, and after one time through the form, modulates to F minor, and goes through the form again. We don't do the modulation except when doing Denny tribute shows.) These changes could be construed as mistakes, or sloppiness, but aren't necessarily so.

I may be reading into what you're saying too deeply -- or perhaps my example isn't perfectly fitted. Please forgive me, if that's the case.

-PHF

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[ Edited by: professahhummingflowah 2008-01-15 21:25 ]