Video tutorial on how to play The Nearness of You made popular by Norah Jones. In the key of C. Let me know if you find this video helpful! www.jaressloo.com/category/music
Thanks for the excellent lesson! The chords for the first verse in the actual sheet music are: Cmaj9, Gm7, C9, Fmaj7, Fdim7, Em7, A7b9, Dm7, G7b9, Em7, A7b9, Dm7, G7, G13b9 Such a great song! It was written in 1938 by the great HOAGY CARMICHAEL to lyrics by NED WASHINGTON for a movie called Romance in the Dark (sung in the movie by Gladys Swarthout, a notable operatic mezzo-soprano of the time-born on Christmas in 1900!). He also wrote the music for "Georgia on My Mind" "Stardust" "Rockin Chair"(big hit for Louis Armstrong), "I Get Along Without You Very Well", "Up a Lazy River" and many others that have become jazz standards for vocalists and instrumentalists. It's too bad most people don't bother to look up the song writers when they post a version of a classic song that someone had a recent hit with. People naturally associate it with whoever they first heard sing it.
Hoagy Carmichael actually wrote it and hundreds have recorded it. Norah Jones brought it back to more recent popularity. Your first chord is actually a CMaj9 since you chose to add the D in there.
Nice tutorial and sounds really good,nice voice too, only it would help if you tuned to 440. I feel compelled to point out the chord names in the bars 3, etc are F#m7b5, B7 augmented to B7 (not Bm) Em9, A13 (not A11), Dm9, G13 (not 11) and the first chord Cmaj9, not an "add9" since the 7th (B) is also in there.
great lesson man Would like to see more of your christian jazz arrangements and lessons on those as well. I would like to perform them in my church :) Thank you!!
Thanks for the great tutorial! PS: It has been popularized over the years by Hoagie, Ella, Sarah Vaughn, Tony Bennett, Billie Holliday, Doris Day, June Christy, Mel Torme, Julie London, Abbey Lincoln, Frank Sinatra, Keely Smith, Jo Stafford, Dinah Shore, Etta James, Ray Anthony, etc. PPS: Who's Norah Jones?
Great job. BTW: you might try to add a little more light to the fingerboard for easier viewing, along with making note of the ninth notes which you used both on major and minor chords in most cases. Thank you for taking your time and demonstrating the tune. Excellent, thank you.
please help me ! what your saying makes perfect sense and is the best version ive heard . but when i look at my book of chords it doesnt look like or sound like what your doing.please please help i want to play it for my grandma . its her favorite song and her aniversary is in 3 weeks
I will...my camera was stolen when we bought our house and were moving out of it. As soon as I get a new camera. I'll be posting something new! Sorry for the wait.
Thank you for the F#m7b5 chord. I just never sat down to figure out what it was. As for the other 13 (not 11) chords...Isn't it true that if you don't play the high E string on those chords, then it's 11, but if you play the top E string, then it's a 13? I believe that's true. So, if that's the case, then I tend to play the 11 chords, not 13.
Count the notes from the root...a C 13 CHORD is 1C...3E...5G....FLAT 7=B FLAT....9D....OR 10...E...13A on top...play the major scale of each root to understand chord construction..
This video is intended for people who are already familiar with these chords and are just applying them to the song. If you don't like some of the chords that I play, then change them! That's the beauty of jazz.
Haha! An F# of some sort! You are playing F#m7b5, and you don't have to scoot way up the neck. You can play 2X221X. An Fm6 would actually work nicer here (1X011X or XX0111).
