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Keyboard changes of Marcus Miller’s “The King is Gone (for Miles)”

In his 1993 album The Sun Don’t Lie, Marcus Miller pays homage to the late Miles Davis with a poignant musical tribute. The track The King is Gone opens with Miller’s masterful bass clarinet playing a melancholic melody, supported by stunning keyboard chords. You can find the chords transcribed below, and a PDF score is…

The intriguing symmetry in Purple Rain’s strings outro

Some clever chords are heard at the end of Purple Rain when the string instruments play their magical outro. Sadly, no official score is available to examine them. Last summer I resolved to transcribe this fascinating part. The series of chords is symmetric! Indeed, individual instruments play symmetric phrases: Each voice consists in a series…


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