One of the other things that I want to bring up in this thread, and it was alluded to earlier in blank melody and a set of chords, in contrafacts.

How many great jazz songs have been done from contrafacts?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_jazz_contrafacts

I thought "Back Home In Indiana" was the leader, but Jerome Kern seems to have more contrafacts of 'All The Things You Are.'

Ray Noble has even more with "Cherokee!"

The absolute winner though is George and Ira Gershwin, well, George anyway, with 'I've Got Rhythm."

So, having nothing but the chords from Notes and being able to change keys easily gives you a wonderful opportunity to take a chord progression from someone else and write an entire new song. At least you'll know that somewhere in there, it's already a hit.


I'm blessed watching God do what He does best. I've had a few rough years, and I'm still not back to where I want to be, but I'm on the way and things are looking far better now than what they were!