[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":4},["ShallowReactive",2],{"chart:small-day-tomorrow":3},"title: Small Day Tomorrow\ncomposer: Bob Dorough\nstyle: Ballad\nkey: Em\nform: ABC, 32 bars\nrecording: Bob Dorough & Bill Takas; Beginning to See the Light; Laissez-Faire; 1976\n# analysis: 2026-10-19, rules v2; E minor\n# recording: Bob Dorough (voc, p) and Bill Takas (b), Laissez-Faire SD 02; the composer's first recording found (written 1966 with Fran Landesman), ahead of Irene Kral's and his 2006 Candid album Small Day Tomorrow (MusicBrainz, JazzTimes)\n# book: Med. Jazz Ballad, quarter = 60\n# the book repeats A–C (a repeat sign at A and at the end of C); solos on A and B; after solos, D.S. al Coda\n# the book's footnote: bass may play F on the 4th beat of bar 7 of letter B\n\n# bar | chord\n\nsection: Intro\n1  | Em          # tonic minor: Dorian by convention\n2  | C#7#11#9    # tritone substitute: resolves down a half step to C13; b9 and #9 from the symbol\n3  | C13         # tritone substitute: resolves down a half step to B7#5\n4  | B7#5        # V7 of E minor: b9 and b13 are in the key, the #11 from the symbol\n\nsection: A\n@segno 1\n1  | Em          # tonic minor: Dorian by convention\n1  | C\u002FE         # a non-tonic major chord: Lydian\n2  | Em6         # tonic minor sixth chord: melodic minor, the raised 7th is a tension\n2  | Em7         # tonic minor: Dorian by convention\n3  | CMaj7       # a non-tonic major chord: Lydian\n3  | CMaj7#11    # from the symbol: #11\n4  | F#m7b5      # iiø7 of E minor: Locrian, the key's own notes (its ♭2 is a passing note)\n# book: F#m7(add11 b5)\n4  | B7b9        # V7 of E minor: b9 and b13 are in the key\n5  | Em          # tonic minor: Dorian by convention\n5  | C\u002FE         # a non-tonic major chord: Lydian\n6  | Em6         # tonic minor sixth chord: melodic minor, the raised 7th is a tension\n6  | Em7         # tonic minor: Dorian by convention\n7  | C7          # tritone substitute: resolves down a half step to B7b9\n7  | B7b9        # V7 of E minor: b9 and b13 are in the key\n8  | Em          # tonic minor: Dorian by convention\n# alt: bar 8 (B7#5) on beat 3\n9  | Em\n9  | C\u002FE         # a non-tonic major chord: Lydian\n10 | Em6         # tonic minor sixth chord: melodic minor, the raised 7th is a tension\n10 | Em7         # tonic minor: Dorian by convention\n11 | CMaj7       # a non-tonic major chord: Lydian\n11 | CMaj7#11    # from the symbol: #11\n12 | F#m7b5      # iiø7 of E minor: Locrian, the key's own notes (its ♭2 is a passing note)\n# book: F#m7(add11 b5)\n12 | B7b9        # V7 of E minor: b9 and b13 are in the key\n13 | Em          # tonic minor: Dorian by convention\n13 | C\u002FE         # a non-tonic major chord: Lydian\n14 | Em6         # tonic minor sixth chord: melodic minor, the raised 7th is a tension\n14 | Em7         # tonic minor: Dorian by convention\n15 | C7          # tritone substitute: resolves down a half step to B7b9\n15 | B7b9        # V7 of E minor: b9 and b13 are in the key\n16 | Em          # tonic minor: Dorian by convention\n\nsection: B\n1  | Gm7         # a borrowed minor chord: Dorian, its own key\n1  | Ebm9        # a borrowed minor chord: Dorian, its own key\n2  | Gm7         # a borrowed minor chord: Dorian, its own key\n2  | Ebm9        # a borrowed minor chord: Dorian, its own key\n3  | Gm7         # a borrowed minor chord: Dorian, its own key\n3  | Ebm9        # ii of Ab9sus4: Dorian\n3  | Ab9sus4     # static sus: Mixolydian\n4  | Am7(add11)  # ii of D7#5: Dorian\n4  | D7#5        # V7\u002FbIII in E minor: #11 and b13 from the symbol\n5  | C#m7b5      # viø7 in E minor: Locrian, its own mode (the chord is outside the key)\n5  | C7          # bVI7 in E minor, not resolving: the #11 is in the key\n6  | C#m7b5      # viø7 in E minor: Locrian, its own mode (the chord is outside the key)\n6  | C7          # tritone substitute: resolves down a half step to Bm7(add11)\n7  | Bm7(add11)  # ii of E7#5#9: Dorian\n7  | E7#5#9      # extended ii–V: a side-step, its own key; b9, #9, #11 and b13 from the symbol\n8  | F#m7b5      # iiø7 of E minor: Locrian, the key's own notes (its ♭2 is a passing note)\n8  | B7b5        # V7 of E minor: 9, #11 and 13 from the symbol\n\nsection: C\n1  | Em          # tonic minor: Dorian by convention\n1  | C\u002FE         # a non-tonic major chord: Lydian\n2  | Em6         # tonic minor sixth chord: melodic minor, the raised 7th is a tension\n2  | Em7         # tonic minor: Dorian by convention\n3  | CMaj7       # a non-tonic major chord: Lydian\n3  | CMaj7#11    # from the symbol: #11\n@coda 3\n# to the coda after bar 3 (the sign stands after the CMaj7#11)\n4  | F#m7b5      # iiø7 of E minor: Locrian, the key's own notes (its ♭2 is a passing note)\n# book: F#m7(add11 b5)\n4  | B7b9        # V7 of E minor: b9 and b13 are in the key\n5  | Em          # tonic minor: Dorian by convention\n5  | C\u002FE         # a non-tonic major chord: Lydian\n6  | Em6         # tonic minor sixth chord: melodic minor, the raised 7th is a tension\n6  | Em7         # tonic minor: Dorian by convention\n7  | F#m7b5      # iiø7 in E minor: Locrian, the key's own notes (its ♭2 is a passing note)\n7  | C7          # tritone substitute: resolves down a half step to B7#5\n7  | B7#5        # V7 of E minor: b9 and b13 are in the key, the #11 from the symbol\n8  | Em          # tonic minor: Dorian by convention\n# alt: bar 8 (B7#5) on beat 3\n@nav 8 D.S. al Coda\n\nsection: Coda\nbars: 12\n@coda 1\n1  | F#m7b5      # iiø7 of E minor: Locrian, the key's own notes (its ♭2 is a passing note)\n# book: F#m7(add11 b5)\n1  | B7b9        # V7 of E minor: b9 and b13 are in the key\n2  | Em          # tonic minor: Dorian by convention\n2  | C\u002FE         # a non-tonic major chord: Lydian\n3  | Em6         # tonic minor sixth chord: melodic minor, the raised 7th is a tension\n3  | Em7         # tonic minor: Dorian by convention\n4  | C13         # tritone substitute: resolves down a half step to B7#5\n# fermata on C13\n5  | B7#5        # V7 of E minor: b9 and b13 are in the key, the #11 from the symbol\n# bar 6: N.C. (fermata)\n7  | Em          # tonic minor: Dorian by convention\n7  | C#7#11#9    # tritone substitute: resolves down a half step to C9; b9 and #9 from the symbol\n8  | C9          # tritone substitute: resolves down a half step to B7#5#9\n8  | B7#5#9      # V7 in E minor, not resolving: the b13 is in the key, b9, #9 and #11 from the symbol\n9  | A9#11       # static dominant: its own mode; #11 from the symbol\n# bars 7–9: a tempo (piano fill), rit.; fermata on A9#11\n",1793484803232]