You and Gary both taking a break? What will happen?

Donny will go into "link posting" withdrawal, buy something, and be back strong as ever, and Gary will feel better after a few days of self medicating with Honey Whatcha-Booze, and come back to solve all our problems.
I'm headed to work now ... think I'll open with "The Girl From Ipanema" tonight ... it's all I-vi-ii-V7, isn't it?

Be sure to use sloppy blues scale and slur your notes.

And sing like me - a little 'desafinado' ...

Donny realized he had to spend more time with his wife.

He'll be back after dinner.

Yes, I use the original chords also, except for the Gb maj7 in the first chord of the bridge. I play it as a Bb min6. On the next chord (B7) I play a fill with a broken chord of 9ths and flatted 5ths. With the D7 I use a whole tone scale for the fill. The Eb7 chord= below it add a flat 7th, flat 5th and the Eb root note. The D7-9..who figured that one out? I play the chord thus: going down from the melody note G#, E, C, F# (it's a D7 9th-5th. Same with the C7. Play it as a C7th flatted 5th on top and E note on the bottom. Easier to play it then explain it.

I was never much on "chord substitution," but the fellow I was studying with last year introduced me to it on a surface level. A month or two ago, the penny dropped and I found out I just love the dissonance I'm hearing now compared to the standard chords: 6th's, major 7ths, 9th's. Just the flattened 5th alone (against a 7th etc) makes a world of difference in the overall sound.

Thanks again for all the chord change advice. I now have several more options than i did before and they are all better than I used to use. I'm sorry to Donny because my silly comment about chord changes on this song turned everything south. But It might have helped a few of us too and that is never a bad thing.
MEL

Don, regarding the Intro1 as a break on the E-A7, beside the silent break button.. Testing the intro1 on the G70 gives the same results, the plus, the G70 has 6 fills (3 up and 3 down).. They dropped this on the E-A7 (only 4, same as other competition).