[HANASHIR:6260] Re: Adon Olam

[Rabbi Richard Schachet <lvrabbi...>]

But how about the music for those of us who use piano of other keyboard
instead of guitar.


Rabbi Richard Schachet
Valley Outreach Synagogue
www.valleyoutreach.com
----- Original Message -----
From: Jeff Klepper <klepper (at) bethemet(dot)org>
To: <hanashir (at) shamash(dot)org>
Sent: Monday, June 12, 2000 6:45 PM
Subject: [HANASHIR:6258] Adon Olam


> > Is the really pretty Adon Olom we did at Hava Nashira in the chordster
> > or the Shireinu? If not, where is it available and whose the author?
>
> It is based on a Sepahrdic (North African) version of Yigdal, which can
also
> be used for Adon Olam.  It is very popular in Israel, where it is sung
> faster, like a march.  The slower version (the chording, especially the
use
> of Bm and Em, hanging on the G, and repeating the final word of each
verse)
> was arranged by a friend of Rabbi James Goodman.  Jim lives in St. Louis
> and is a brilliant musician who gave a music workshop at the first
R'faeinu
> Healing Conference a few years ago.  I learned it there and recorded it
for
> my album In This Place.  It is in the key of D major.  The chords are
simple
> (hyphen = one bar):
>
> 4/4 D - Bm - D - A -
>     G - D Bm - Em A - 2/4 Bm A -
> 4/4 G - G - (D.C.)
>
> Jeff
>
>

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