Originally Posted By: Matt Finley
I read all your material but did not look at your song yet.. I don't think Nathan Hein said the slash roots are 'wrong' and I think it's needed in the bass.


I'm not sure what Nathan Hein said, but Ethan Hein says..."There are as many interpretations of this tune’s chord changes as there are transcriptions of it. The ones in the Real Book are real wrong. “Naima” is full of slash chords – chords with the “wrong” bass note. If you think of the bass note as determining the chord quality, you can interpret most of “Naima” as consisting of ornamented or altered dominant seventh chords." He may be suggesting that they are meant to be 'wrong' (as in...not the correct note for the chord.

Originally Posted By: Matt Finley
I changed the tempo from 70 to 60; matches the tempo marking in the fakebook and is the recorded tempo of your choices of RealTracks changed the chord in bars 1,5 and 17 to DbMaj7/Bb [note: this and all other chords here are concert key] changed bars 10 and 12 to Bb7susb9 changed bar 13 to DMaj7#5, and a small change of bars 2,6 and 18 from Ebm7 to Ebm9


I'll try that, thanks.

Originally Posted By: Matt Finley
One more thing. You had a repeat of the first four bars, and for some reason, it played correctly for the first time through but not the second. I'm using the newest build of version 2021 and mine sounded just like your MP3 which was clearly wrong starting around bar 7. So I dropped the repeat, added four bars and copied 1-4 into 5-9. Now it sounds right. I'm not sure why the repeat didn't work correctly and will follow up on that.


I did actually hear that myself and assumed there was something wrong with my software. I'll try your suggestion tomorrow. (Very late here in Ireland).

Thanks again for all your help with this and for your song, I'll have a listen in the morning. smile

Last edited by StephenP; 04/16/21 12:46 PM.