what the .. what have I been playing all these years.. opps

[Eracer_Team-DougH]

well I'm in choir yesterday.. we're playing along one of the 'standards' we do weekly.. and I'm reading the chords as I normally would.. I get to page 2, and we're playing along.

then what jumps out at me.. a Dm ..  well Dm it 's not hard.. but my brain goes..

"WAIT!!!!.. What have you done for the past number of years with this song.. How long have you been playing this song wrong???" 

of course we're scooting along at 4/4 march tempo of 95+ bpm.. and I'm now scrambling to keep up with the others (which keeping time in our group is a struggle on it's best day)

so you ask .. what did I do?

I've attached part of Page 1 and part of Page 2

if you notice I've circled a bunch of Dm7's.. and then there is lowly Dm on Page 2.. 

don't know when I started the 'practice' of only playing a Dm and not the Dm7 in the song.. but I realize my hand is only playing Dm all the way through all the pages of this song.

Now I'm going to have to concentrait just a bit more to 're-train' my hands to play the Dm7 in this song.

 

and Page 2

 

 

 

 

[Nutty 1]

😁 I doubt that anyone would have noticed.

A lot of people simplify songs by not playing 7s. On a keyboard the chord would be formed by adding in the 7th note (C) to the  Dm making it a four fingered chord.

[tjmeyers]

I'd claim artistic license.

And I'm sticking to it.