[powellnselmer]

Do you prefer Autumn Leaves with a slower tempo or a faster tempo?

Cheers

 

[sycc]

slower temp but I like to speed up the chorus!!!

 

[asaxman]

Great tune, at any tempo! I've played it 1,000 times at all tempos!

 

[hakukani]

...depends on which key

 

[Martin Williams]

When I play it, We have a slower into, and then a tempo change to a higher tempo

 

[Agent27]

I like it at a medium/medium-slow tempo like 150.

 

[hakukani]

I like it at a medium/medium-slow tempo like 150.

...kinda between too slow and too fast. Sounds good to me.

 

[Agent27]

Actually, I like the Wynton Marsalis (Marsalis Standard Time) version where he does the first 2 measures in 1, the next 2 measures in 2, the next 2 in 3, and so on until he's double timing at the end of the 2nd A section.

 

[asaxman]

G minor (concert) is good for me. Also good for Miles, Cannonball, Freddie, Wynton...

 

[saxmanglen]

G minor (concert) is good for me. Also good for Miles, Cannonball, Freddie, Wynton...

Pssst? What tempo is "G minor"?

 

[Agent27]

Pssst? What tempo is "G minor"?

Hmmmm, Gm? Well, the G kind of looks like a 6 (and a lowercase g looks like an upside down 6) and an m looks like a 3 rotated 90 degrees. So I'm guessing gm=63 which is way too slow.

 

[hakukani]

G minor (concert) is good for me. Also good for Miles, Cannonball, Freddie, Wynton...

Well, if we can play in Gmin (the usual key), I like it a medium tempo.

Every once in a while, somebody plays it in the Real Book key (E min). Then I want it SLOW

 

[Grumps]

An easy-going tempo.

 

[RootyTootoot]

I actually don't think the tune itself would sound particularly great played really fast (someone prove me wrong with ref to a "great" recording i've never heard, go on! ) but it does sound superb as a ballad as well as at the usual medium tempo. The changes could be any speed you like, i suppose.

 

[Agent27]

I actually don't think the tune itself would sound particularly great played really fast (someone prove me wrong with ref to a "great" recording i've never heard, go on! )

The Wynton version I mentioned above is relatively fast. But they play tricks on you during the head and make it deceptive.

 

[LampLight]

. . . Every once in a while, somebody plays it in the Real Book key (E min). Then I want it SLOW

Then I want a Noblet C clarinet.

 

[LampLight]

Well, if we can play in Gmin (the usual key), I like it a medium tempo.

Every once in a while, somebody plays it in the Real Book key (E min). Then I want it SLOW

Oops! :shock: I pulled the trigger too fast. I want the C clarinet for E Maj, not E min, although I would like this tune slow on a clarinet. Hak: So why do you like this piece slow in E min? :dontknow:

 

[hakukani]

Oops! :shock: I pulled the trigger too fast. I want the C clarinet for E Maj, not E min, although I would like this tune slow on a clarinet. Hak: So why do you like this piece slow in E min? :dontknow:

I don't know it very well, so have to transpose it in my head---one of my many weakness.

 

[jbtsax]

What tempo is suggested by the lyrics of the song?

The falling leaves drift by my window
The falling leaves of red and gold
I see your lips, the summer kisses
The sunburned hands I used to hold

Since you went away the days grow long
And soon I'll hear old winter's song
But I miss you most of all, my darling
When autumn leaves start to fall

 

[Grumps]

There's words?