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-- Blues 4 --
Sincerely imitative, and I'm pretty sure not to a copyright-infringing extent, of a (to my ear) wonderful album called "Reggae" |
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that Herbie Mann made with Mick Taylor, Albert Lee, and Pat Rebillot. I wanted to capture what they captured on the |
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"Swingin' Shepherd Blues,"which here appears as only one of three alternative chord progressions, minus the distinctive melody |
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which itself is really the "Swingin' Shepherd Blues." This is a little faster and doesn't swing quite the same way, as it lacks the |
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heavy syncopation of the bass line characteristic of reggae, which they used. There was no conscious direct quotation of Mann, et al; |
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I let the music write itself, in the sense of form flowing from function, as I suppose they did; and this is, after all "The Blues," a genre that |
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really can not be said to be within the jurisdiction of composers, anyway. It's all been done before, it's a tradition; we all understand that, with |
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the possible exception of a few cranks with big egoes or lawyers with dreams of winning judgements. I really did write EIGHTEEN choruses |
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of this thing, from scratch, one note at a time with a computer mouse, and if I hadn't been trying to make it sound like Mann, Taylor, Lee, |
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and Rebillot, I'd have had to find some other thing to try to make it sound like. If you write really original music it's TOO DIFFERENT for |
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most ears, and you sure have a hell of a time putting it into "genre"classifications. (See "Other World") And yes, it's "Blues." |
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Key: A Time signature: 4/4 Tempo: 120 Length: 220 measures Time: 7 minutes, 23 seconds |
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Instruments: Ocarina, Vibes, Rhodes Piano, Fiddle, Percussive Organ, Guitar, Koto, Kalimba, Fretless Electric Bass, |
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Electric Bass Guitar, Melodic Tom-toms, and Drums |
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File size: 101 KB |
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