Nina Simone's Cadenza on Cinderman Is a Dramatic Cadenza

This is the most extended high energy cadenza I can think of off the top of my head it is bananas now. Nina Simone's cadenza on cinderman is certainly dramatic so the time drops out the band stays in but the time is sort of suspended and she goes completely off. This is an f sharp chord we're on the five chord here and if you remember from way back one of the very first episodes that I did was about Stevie Wonder and his song I Wish I had some theories about why maybe Stevie Wonder favored the black keys when he was writing his iconic keyboard riffs. It does really help if you're playing a key with a lot of black keys

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