This is useful to an extent, though the video's creator has embellished the melody too much for the purposes relating to this blog. My plan is to reharmonises songs while touching the melody as little as possible.
The author's end result leads to a chord sequence that looks like this:
Cmaj7 - Adom7 - Dm7 - Gdom7
Bm7b5 - Edom7 - A7 - Ddom7
Dm7 - Gdom7 - Em7 - Adom7 - Dm7 - Gdom7 - Cmaj7
Considering the original sequence looks similar to this:
C G
G C
C F
C G C
We can see that it's a rather intense reharmonisation. The A7 leads down a fifth to the Dm7, which then moves down a fifth to the G7. We can see that the chord sequence continually moves down in fifths. This is similar to a small set of rules I've composed which include back-cycling in fifths. The user here seems to alternate between minor seven chords and dominant seven chords. This is something I'll have to look at, though since I'm trying to adhere to the melody in my own reharmonisations, this may not work for me.
If anything, it's food for thought, and gives me a chance to see how other people reharmonises well known tunes.
J
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