I’ve arranged “Smoke Gets In Your Eyes” using my 2+2 chord-arranging method for solo piano.
“Smoke Gets in Your Eyes” was written by Jerome Kern (music) and Otto Harbach (lyrics) for the Broadway musical Roberta. It was a romantic ballad, and it quickly became one of Kern’s biggest standards; the later hit version by The Platters turned it into a pop classic. Over the years it has been covered by jazz artists, including Billie Holiday, Dinah Washington, Sarah Vaughan, Nat King Cole, and instrumentalists such as Stan Getz.
In 2+2 arranging, each hand plays two notes: the left hand anchors the harmony (usually Root and 7th or Root and 3rd, and sometimes Root and 5th on tonic chords), while the right-hand thumb supplies the missing 3rd or 7th—whichever isn’t covered by the left hand—and the remaining fingers carry the melody.
I’ve created 1,400 2+2 arrangements of standards and produced 64 tutorials at www.Patreon.com/HarryLikas
I was also the technical editor for Mark Levine’s "The Jazz Theory Book" and a contributor to "The Jazz Piano Book."
