Stevie Wonder tunes with presets from the Stevie Wonder Tribute.
My Cherie d’Amour (R&B fakebook)
Piano: I Wish EP - Jerry Kovarsky
Bass: Keep Running Bass - Reverb Machine
Lead: Evil Lead - Reverb Machine
Drums: Moderm Sounds and R&B - Addictive Drums
Guitar: Ibanez Law Suit guitar AER amp
Knocks me off my feet (Unreal Fakebook)
Lead: Stevie Harmonica Breath - Jerry Kovarsky
Piano: That Girl Tremolo - Jerry Kovarsky
Bass: Love Light Bass - Reverb Machine
Drums: Moderm Sounds and R&B - Addictive Drums
Guitar: Ibanez Law Suit guitar AER amo
In the sunshine of your love (Fun take on You Are My Sunshine)
Bass: Keep Running Bass - Reverb Machine
Drums: Vintage Dead- Addictive Drums
Guitar: Ibanez Law Suit guitar on OpAmp Strat preset modified, Delay Brigade
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Lovely! glad that you enjoyed the bank
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Thank you, Lily.
I was not really a Stevie Wonder fan. But I took him more seriously when I noticed his songs made it in jazz fakebooks.
I like Reverb Machine’s presets for Arturia instruments and as a retired teacher, I admire his work devoted to teaching harmony on his website.
@francoise
Stevie is MUCH underrated by those unfamiliar with his work, the guy IS a true musical genius!!!
Ok some of his work is ‘a bit cheesy’ at times, but look at any prolific artist and you’ll find plenty of ‘not so good’ work in their catalogue.
There aren’t many artists that are as proficient, and prolific, in so many genres and over such a long period of time.
So much of his work has been sampled and covered by MANY people over the decades.
Somehow i don’t think people will be studying most of today’s newer artists in 300 years time, but i’m pretty sure Stevie will be on the curriculum for most ‘classical music’ courses by that time. 
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In the song sample of the Wonder Tribute, you have an harmonic chord progression moving down which you find in many Stevie’s songs. You find that type of progression in jazz but, he adds , here and there, a blue note typical of blues.
For example, Summer Soft goes chromatically F#6> F7 > Emaj7 > Am7b5 (= Eb) and concludes with B. Similarly Send One your Love goes A maj7> G#7 > G maj7> F#7 > F maj7 and back to G maj7. In Cherie d’Amour, the melody goes F# > F > E.
When your hear this chromatic descent, you say: Oh ya, that’s him. Not always of course.
In Cherie d’Amour, going from Gmaj chord to C7 and Fmaj is bold since the F# in Gmaj clashes with C7 and Fmaj. But it’s ok since the melody is chromatic. Clever.
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