[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":4},["ShallowReactive",2],{"chart:i-cant-get-started":3},"title: I Can't Get Started\ncomposer: Vernon Duke\nstyle: Ballad\nkey: C\nform: AABC\nrecording: Bunny Berigan and His Orchestra; Bunny Berigan Plays Again; RCA Victor; 1952\nyoutube: IV73G_k5sC0\n# analysis: 2026-10-19, rules v2; C\n# recording: recorded 1937-08-07, NYC, with Berigan singing, the 12-inch master CS-011675; first issued on 78 (Victor 36208, in the album A Symposium of Swing; a shortened 10-inch edit came out as Victor 25728); first LP the 10-inch RCA Victor LPT 1003 (1952), its opening track; songbook standard → the reference reading, Berigan's theme, over Dizzy Gillespie's 1945 78 and Sonny Rollins's 1957 Vanguard take (DAHR, Wikipedia, Discogs); video: \"Provided to YouTube by RCA Bluebird\", The Pied Piper (1935-1940), the 4:47 12-inch take, the same take (not the 1936 Vocalion small-group version)\n\n# bar | chord | scale\n\nsection: A1\n# area: C major (A1 1 – B 1)\n1 | CMaj7  # tonic: the 4th is in the key\n1 | Am7    # vi: Aeolian, the key's own notes (the ♭6 is a passing note)\n2 | Dm7    # ii of G7: Dorian\n2 | G7     # V7\u002FI in C: natural tensions\n3 | Bm7    # ii of E7: Dorian\n3 | E7     # extended ii–V: a side-step, its own key\n3 | Bbm7   # ii of Eb7: Dorian\n3 | Eb7    # extended ii–V: a side-step, its own key\n4 | Am7    # ii of D7: Dorian\n4 | D7     # V7\u002FV in C: natural tensions\n4 | Abm7   # ii of Db7: Dorian\n4 | Db7    # tritone substitute: resolves down a half step to CMaj7\n5 | CMaj7  # tonic: the 4th is in the key\n5 | Am7    # vi: Aeolian, the key's own notes (the ♭6 is a passing note)\n6 | Dm7    # ii of G7b9: Dorian\n6 | G7b9   # V7\u002FI in C: the b9 from the symbol\n7 | Em7b5  # iiø7 of D minor: Locrian, the key's own notes (its ♭2 is a passing note)\n7 | A7#9   # V7\u002Fii in C: the b13 is in the key, b9, #9 and #11 from the symbol\n8 | Dm7    # ii of the ii–V to C\n8 | G7     # V7 of C: natural tensions\n\nsection: A2\n1 | CMaj7  # tonic: the 4th is in the key\n1 | Am7    # vi: Aeolian, the key's own notes (the ♭6 is a passing note)\n2 | Dm7    # ii of G7: Dorian\n2 | G7     # V7\u002FI in C: natural tensions\n3 | Bm7    # ii of E7: Dorian\n3 | E7     # extended ii–V: a side-step, its own key\n3 | Bbm7   # ii of Eb7: Dorian\n3 | Eb7    # extended ii–V: a side-step, its own key\n4 | Am7    # ii of D7: Dorian\n4 | D7     # V7\u002FV in C: natural tensions\n4 | Abm7   # ii of Db7: Dorian\n4 | Db7    # tritone substitute: resolves down a half step to CMaj7\n5 | CMaj7  # tonic: the 4th is in the key\n5 | Am7    # vi: Aeolian, the key's own notes (the ♭6 is a passing note)\n6 | Dm7    # ii of the ii–V to C\n6 | G7b9   # V7 of C: the b9 from the symbol\n7 | CMaj7  # tonic: the 4th is in the key\n7 | Bb7    # back door bVII7 to CMaj7: the #11 is in the key\n8 | CMaj7  # tonic: the 4th is in the key\n\nsection: B\n1 | Em7    # iii: Phrygian, the key's own notes (the ♭2 is a passing note)\n1 | A7     # extended ii–V: a side-step, its own key\n# area: D major (B 2–4)\n2 | Em7    # ii of the ii–V to D\n2 | A7     # V7 of D: natural tensions\n3 | DMaj7  # tonic: the 4th is in the key\n3 | GMaj9  # IV: the #4 is the key’s 7th\n4 | DMaj7  # tonic: the 4th is in the key\n4 | GMaj9  # IV: the #4 is the key’s 7th\n# area: C major (B 5 – C 8)\n5 | Dm7    # ii of G7: Dorian\n5 | G7     # V7\u002FI in C: natural tensions\n6 | Dm7    # ii of G7: Dorian\n6 | G7     # V7\u002FI in C: natural tensions\n7 | Em7    # iii: Phrygian, the key's own notes (the ♭2 is a passing note)\n7 | A7     # V7\u002Fii in C: the b13 is in the key\n8 | Dm7    # ii of the ii–V to C\n8 | G7     # V7 of C: natural tensions\n\nsection: C\n1 | CMaj7  # tonic: the 4th is in the key\n1 | Am7    # vi: Aeolian, the key's own notes (the ♭6 is a passing note)\n2 | Dm7    # ii of G7: Dorian\n2 | G7     # V7\u002FI in C: natural tensions\n3 | Bm7    # ii of E7: Dorian\n3 | E7     # extended ii–V: a side-step, its own key\n3 | Bbm7   # ii of Eb7: Dorian\n3 | Eb7    # extended ii–V: a side-step, its own key\n4 | Am7    # ii of D7: Dorian\n4 | D7     # V7\u002FV in C: natural tensions\n4 | Abm7   # ii of Db7: Dorian\n4 | Db7    # tritone substitute: resolves down a half step to CMaj7\n5 | CMaj7  # tonic: the 4th is in the key\n5 | A7alt  # from the symbol: altered\n6 | Dm7    # ii of the ii–V to C\n6 | G7     # V7 of C: natural tensions\n7 | CMaj7  # tonic: the 4th is in the key\n8 | Dm7    # ii of the ii–V to C\n8 | G7     # V7 of C: natural tensions\n",1793484800126]