Nice job Paul thank you for sharing your work...
I'm a big Fan!
So nice to have people talk with their playing.

Gary I'm fully aware of what ad lib means ... I often do it, but because of my limited music theory training I stick the the original chord structure and 'play off' the melody line ...
When someone 'takes off' on the chord structure, and it sounds bad, well then that's what it is - BAD ... I don't care if the person is OMB or a seasoned 'PRO' ...
Your response to Mel implied that you don't know if the chords are correct but that's fine because your audience doesn't know either, and when Donny answered that that was a "GREAT POST" I couldn't believe that those comments were coming from two people who made their living playing music !!! ...

Gary, check your PM ...

https://app.box.com/s/ro1ylam2paut4egl8g9tyy65bu9vbuey

Donny,the only "Organ Bossa"style I could find on the E80

was on the external memory card,so it could be from anywhere

so probably not a Roland style.I have 1812 styles on the memory

card so it could be any brand.

Terry wow that was very interesting in a one note Sambaish kind of way... I really liked it... Thanx for sharing with us.

Tony, you have a PM.

Gary

Wow, Wow, 64 replies and 628 views. Let nobody question the value of Donny on this forum. Us old guys, that’s anyone over 60, can take a simple thought and turn it into a circus. And that ain’t all bad, as long as we never forget is that all we have is are own personal opinions.

“The right chords” Now what is that? There is no such thing as the right chords. The right chords for you are the right chords. When we play, we are telling a story, and we are allowed to use whatever chords we wish to use.

64 replies and 628 views, Donny, don’t go nowhere, John C.

PS, a thank you for all those that gave their opinions.

Great post! ...
Thank you John

Tony, Bosa Nova are gentile, they are used many times to tell love stories. And you are right about Summer Samba being exciting and busy, Latin music cover every emotion you can think of.

Their ballads are the slowest, and their fast music makes you dance.
Latins are emotional people, it's displayed in their music.
John C.

John, on this we will have to agree to disagree ...
The right chords are the chords the composer gave us to use ... yes, we are telling a story, but we telling the story as written by the composer ... If someone is playing "Misty" I want to hear the chords Errol Garner wrote ...
JMHO

I do see your point Tony, but a musician that has a good understanding of harmonic structure can use all sorts of substitution chords and even reharmoize a song.
We have all have probably heard great jazz pianists do very sophisticated version of simple pop tunes. Sometimes it can be quite effective.