In The Evening (When The Sun Goes Down) - Don Rae-Leroy Carr

[ArneBlom]

Hi there , I’d like the chords for piano if this nice song. Lou Rawls recorded one version with a walking bass, and if you have a simpler version that would be good also.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=VdkiDh...cgbG91IHJhd2xz

[pdxdjazz]

In The Evening (When The Sun Goes Down) (Lou Rawls) - Don Rae-Leroy Carr


In The Evening (When The Sun Goes Down) (Leroy Carr) - Don Rae-Leroy Carr

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=PYVZ1-...MgZG93bg%3D%3D
)BOB

[ArneBlom]

Thanks! Are the chords you sent the one of the version in the youtube recording, or Lou Rawls's? Also, are the two songs you sent the same chords in different keys?

[pdxdjazz]

Thanks! Are the chords you sent the one of the version in the youtube recording, or Lou Rawls's? Also, are the two songs you sent the same chords in different keys?

I used chords that I thought would provide a tasty bass-line for the Lou Rawls version in his key.
For the more simple Leroy Carr version, I used the basic chords I heard played in his recording.

No matter if you use lots of extended chords or fewer basic chords the song is still a 12-bar blues progression.

Try this, pick a key in which you like to play the piano and transpose both charts to that.
Slow down the Rawl’s tempo and adjust the iRp mixer to play only bass and a little drums. Then you play piano using Carr’s chords (in the same key).

)BOB

[ArneBlom]

Thanks for the tip!