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Wes Montgomery "Yesterdays" full transcription & analysis

9/3/2017

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The Boss of all the bosses - Wes at his best.  This is a relatively easy song and learning it will give a lot of goodies. Inspired by this article of Dave Liebman I decided not only transcribe and learn to play it but to make more detailed analysis. I hope you will enjoy it and  pdf with tabs/notation is ready here for you so no excuses :)
​I choose the studio version with organ trio configuration which is my favorite sound of Wes. I know there are few transcriptions on YouTube and probably somewhere else too but I did my own study and most probably you can find my own mistakes there.  
See the history of the song here: 

http://www.jazzstandards.com/compositions-0/yesterdays.htm

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Pdf  1
with tabs/notation without harmony and line analysis for ease of reading
wes-terdays_tab_notation.pdf
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Pdf 2
with chord symbols all across the solo for your own analysis:
wes-terdays_tab_notation_with_harmony.pdf
File Size: 170 kb
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Pdf  3
with full linear analysis agains chord changes - scales, melodic devices etc.
wes-terdays_transcription_with_analysis_chrod_scales_melody.pdf
File Size: 317 kb
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Yesterdays  (Otto Harbach / Jerome Kern) as played by Wes
​part I - level easy

Yesterdays  (Otto Harbach / Jerome Kern) as played by Wes
​full version - level intensive :)

7 Comments
Paolo
30/6/2020 12:12:06

Thanks for the great work the transcription is really detailed and perfectly played. I have a question. In Wes’s version he plays Eb7 instead of Em7b5 A7. Why did you write the chords from the real book version? Is there a specific reason? Thanks

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