Que Pasa (arr. Horace Silver) by Joe Henderson Sheet Music for Performance Ensemble at Sheet Music Direct
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Que Pasa (arr. Horace Silver)
by Joe Henderson Performance Ensemble - Digital Sheet Music

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This is a note-for-note transcription of the October 31, 1963 trio recording of Horace Silvers tune Que Pasa. It is notated for piano, bass and drums, although the bass is a three-note figure that hardly ever varies. For his improvisations, Horace employed a call-and-response pattern between his two hands, with little overlap. This means that the solo pianist can play the string bass part with her left hand while handling both piano staves with her right. Horace observed, We never used this trio version but I really like this earlier version. I approached it differently in that I didnt always resolve it when I was improvising. Its different and I like it. See bar 67 for an example of his reluctance to resolve. To create Que Pasa, Horace took the first line of Gershwin's Nice Work If You Can Get It (Holding hands at midnight) and put a samba bassline underneath. It is written in the theoretical key of Db minor, together with the non-diatonic chords G13 and F13. The tune stayed in his bandbook for the next three years and has become something of a mini-standard over the years.

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