How to create your own substitute chords and reharmonizations
Using non-functional harmony
Alterations of chord tones
Approaching chords from above and below
Use of constant structures
Descending bass/ascending bass
Inserting additional chords
Manipulation of musical forms.
Darn that dream / Lyric by Eddie DeLange, Music by Jimmy Van Heusen
Exactly like you / Words by Dorothy Fields, Music by Jimmy McHugh
(Back home again in) Indiana / Words by Ballard MacDonald, Music by James F. Hanley
Moonglow / Will Hudson, Eddie DeLange and Irving Mills
My melancholy baby / Words by George A. Norton, Music by Ernie Burnett
Picnic (Theme from "Picnic") / Words by Steve Allen, Music by George W. Duning
Solitude / Words by Eddie DeLange and Irving Mills, Music by Duke Ellington
Wrap your troubles in dreams (and dream your troubles away / Words by Ted Koehler and Billy Moll, Music by Harry Barris
A nightingale sang in Berkeley square / Lyric by Eric Maschwitz, Music by Manning Sherwin
Blue Cycle / Andy LaVerne.
