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It Might As Well Be Spring

Here are the fingerings that I use to play a chord-melody arrangement of Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein's 1945 standard It Might As Well Be Spring. I play it in the key of C not the original key of G. The song is a ballad played in 4/4 time. I used the chord progression from the [HL] Real Book Vol. 2" to create this chord-melody arrangement. The original chords for bars 1 and 2 features a variation of a Basic (I-IV) Progression created by using embellishment ("CM7" for "C") and quality change ("F7" for "F") chord substitutions. In common practice, the "Dm7" chord is substituted for the "F7" chord. Richard Scott in his book, "Chord Progressions for Songwriters," explains it this way: "Replacing the "F" of the "C-F" basic progression with the "Dm" chord (relative minor/major substitution) creates the mellower sounding "C-Dm" [I-ii] substituton." Below are these and several other common substitutions. There are a number of possible substitutions for this progression. You should try using these substitutions in your chord-melody arrangements when you encounter a basic progression.

|CM7 / F7    / |CM7 /  F7    / |
|CM7 / Dm7   / |CM7 /  Dm7   / |
|CM7 / Dm7/G / |CM7 /  Dm7/G / |
|CM7 / F9    / |Em7 A7 Dm7  G7 |
|CM7 / Dm7   / |Em7 A7 Dm7  G7 |
|CM7 / Dm7  G7 |CM7 /  Dm7  G7 |
 1.             2.

There are also several common encountered changes for Bars 5 and 6. These are shown below.

|FM7 / Fo / |CM7 / / / | |FM7 / Fo / |CM7 / Am7 / | |FM7 / G/F / |C/E / Eb7 / | |FM7 F#m7 B7 |Em7 / A7 / | |F#o / F7 / |Em7 / A7 / | 5. 6.

          A
       
             CM7       Dm7/G          CM7    Dm7/G   
E-------||-------------------------|-----------------|
B-------||---------------------1---|-----------------|
G--0-0--||---2--0-0-0---2--0-0-----|---2--0---0--0---|
D-------||---2----------3----------|---2------3------|
A-------||---3---------------------|---3-------------|
E-------||--------------3----------|----------3------|
          1.                        2.

    CM7                    Gm7 C7      FM7     G/F
E-----0-3----0---------|-----------|-----------------|
B-----0---1--0---1-----|-----------|-----------0-1---|
G---0--------0-0---0---|---3---3---|---2-1-2---0-----|
D---2--------2---------|---3---2---|---2-------0-----|
A---3--------3---------|-------3---|-----------------|
E----------------------|---3-------|---1-------1-----|
 3.                     4.          5.
               _____________________________________
    C/E Eb7   |1. Dm7   G7        Em7 A7  Dm7 G7    |
E-------------|---1-1---1-----|---0---0---0---------||
B---1---------|---1-----0-0---|---0---2---1---------||
G---0---0-0---|---2-----0-----|---0---0---2---0-0---||
D---2---1-----|---0-----0-----|---0---2---0---3-----||
A---3---1-----|---------------|---2---0-------2-----||
E---0---------|---------3-----|---0-----------3-----||
 6.            7.              8.
 
                           B 

________________________  
|2.Dm7  G7     C6 Gm7 C7 |   F6   Dm7        Gm7  C7 
E--3-3--3----|-----------||--1-1--1-3-1-0--|---------|
B--1----0-0--|--1--1--1--||--3----1--------|--3------|
G--2----0----|--2--3--3--||--2----2--------|--3-3-3--|
D--0----3----|--2--3--2--||-------0--------|--3---2--|
A-------2----|--3-----3--||--3-------------|------3--|
E-------3----|-----3-----||--1-------------|--3------|
 15.          16.          17.              18.

   Gm7      C7      FM7 Bm7b5 E7      Dm7  Dm7/C   
E----------------|----------------|---1-1--1-3-1-0---|
B--3-------------|---1---3----0---|---1----1---------|
G--3-3-3-3--3-2--|---2---2----1---|---2----2---------|
D--3--------2----|---2---3----0---|---0----0---------|
A-----------3----|-------2----2---|--------3---------|
E--3-------------|---1--------0---|------------------|
 19.              20.              21.

    Bm7b5 E7           Am7    D7         Dm7 G7 
E------------------|---0--0---2--2---|---3----------||
B---3-0---0--1-3---|---1------1------|---1----------||
G---2-----1--------|---0------2------|---2---0--0---||
D---3-----0--------|---2------0------|---0---3------||
A---2-----2--------|---0-------------|-------2------||
E---------0--------|-----------------|-------3------||
 22.                23.               24.

 A

   CM7     Dm7/G       CM7 Dm7/G   CM7
E-------------------|-----------|----0-3---0--------|
B----------------1--|-----------|----0---1-0---1----|
G--2-0-0-0-2-0-0----|--2-0-0-0--|--0-------0-0---0--|
D--2-------3--------|--2---3----|--2-------2--------|
A--3----------------|--3--------|--3-------3--------|
E----------3--------|------3----|-------------------|
 25.                 26.         27.

  Gm7 C7    FM7     G/F         C/E Eb7     Dm7 G7
E--------|-------------------|-----------|----------|
B--------|----------0-0---0--|--1-1-0-1--|--3-3-3-0-|
G--3--3--|--2-2-1-2-0---3----|--0---0----|--5---0---|
D--3--2--|--2-------0--------|--2---1----|--3---3---|
A-----3--|-------------------|--3--------|--5---2---|
E--3-----|--1-------1--------|--0--------|------3---|
 28.      29.                 30.         31.

    E7  A7        D7               Dm7      G7 
E---0---0-1---|---2--------0---|---1----------------|
B---0---2-----|---1-3--3-3-----|---1-3-3-3--3-3-4---|
G---1---0-----|---2----5-------|---2--------0-------|
D---0---2-----|---0----4-------|---0--------3-------|
A---2---0-----|--------5-------|------------2-------|
E---0---------|----------------|------------3-------|
 32.           33.              34.

   Em7  Am7    D7 Ebo7   Em7  Am7   Dm7  G7     C6
E--0------0--|--------|----0-----|----1-----|-------|
B--0-1--1----|--3--1--|-------1--|-------3--|---1---|
G--0----0----|--5--2--|--0----0--|--0----0--|---2---|
D--0----2----|--4--1--|--0----2--|--3----3--|---2---|
A--2----0----|--5-----|--2----0--|--5----2--|---3---|
E--0---------|--------|--0-------|-------3--|-------|
 35.          36.      37.        38.        39. 

   ( Dm7  G7 )
E--------------||
B----1---------||
G----2----0----||
D----0----3----||
A---------2----||
E---------3----||
 40.