How to End a Ballad with a Solo Piano Cadenza
​(Here's That Rainy Day)

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In this lesson, we are going to analyze this Solo Piano Cadenza Ending over "Here's That Rainy Day"
 from TrioGram II ft. Joe LaBarbera at Campus JAX (Orange County, CA) on 7/27/23.

Here we reference the melodic information from the first 4 bars for our cadenza which takes place after the A7 (replacing the last 4 bars of the tune) . You can reharmonize the chords however you'd like, but the aim is to somehow get back to A7-D7 in order to end up on the tonic, Gmaj7.

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