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needed: chord help
needed: chord help
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kudzurunner
3986 posts
Mar 24, 2013
7:59 PM
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OK, jazz guys. Here is your chance. "Lock It Up" by trumpeter Gabriel Mark Hasselbach won song of the year at the Canadian smooth jazz awards. It's something I want to take back into my clanking funky blues bag, but in order to do that, I need to navigate the bridge, which modulates quite a bit.
Lock It Up
Can somebody diagram the chords?
This is the sort of stuff, 35 years ago, that I played on guitar with my college band. I can probably figure out the chords, with painstaking slowness, but I know there's somebody on this forum who can hear them a couple of times and write them down. If you're that person, please do so! If you're not that person, please don't waste a moment struggling to do so.
I want the Blues Doctors to play a bluesified version of this on the streets this summer.
Last Edited by kudzurunner on Mar 24, 2013 8:01 PM
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Gnarly
515 posts
Mar 24, 2013
9:03 PM
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The jam is in Bbm . . . kinda Bb7--
The first channel at :49 goes |Gm | D7 | Fm | Bb11 | Ebmaj7 | F/G | Ab7 Ebmaj7 | Gbmaj7 B13 |
Then at 1:46 there is another section that the piano player solos over--
| Am7b5 D7 | Gm C7 | Fm Bb7 | Ebmaj7 | Am7b5 D7 | Gm Ab/Bb | Cm | D7b9 |
At 3:03, after the Peter Gunn quote, the first channel again . . .
Last Edited by Gnarly on Mar 24, 2013 9:16 PM
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Jehosaphat
462 posts
Mar 24, 2013
10:06 PM
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Bloody hell Gnarly.
I am impressed.How the F..k can you do that?
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Gnarly
517 posts
Mar 24, 2013
10:08 PM
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I'm a guitar player!
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kudzurunner
3987 posts
Mar 25, 2013
4:56 AM
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Thanks, Gnarly! I'll check out those chords this evening. I suspect that the "base" chord, the Bbm7/Bb7, whatever it is, is some version of the "straight across" chord. If you barre straight across the fretboard on the sixth fret, you get--from low to high strings--a root, an 11th, a 7th, a minor third, a fifth, and a root. That's a Bbm11. Great funk chord. I suspect that the guitar player is using something like that. But yeah, there's also a dominant seventh, thirteenth-y feel. The melody uses the minor third and the major sixth; those two show up in the Bb13.
Thanks again. I'm heading to the woodshed.
Last Edited by kudzurunner on Mar 25, 2013 12:47 PM
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kudzurunner
3994 posts
Mar 28, 2013
6:54 PM
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Gnarly: I'm sitting here with my guitar, and I'm hearing the main vamp as Bb7 alternating with Eb9: a familiar I/IV two-chord funk vamp, as in Herbie Hancock's "Chameleon."
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Gnarly
522 posts
Mar 28, 2013
7:35 PM
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I don't hear the chord changing--the bass doesn't play the IV . . .
Assuming beat one (after the drum pickup) is :01 . . .
The intro vamp (at :01) is | Gm | % | Ab7 | % |
The head starts at :10 and is just one chord--Bb7, but the minor major mix is funky . . .
In the video (and I know we can't count on that, but still . . .) the guitar player's hand isn't moving, he's not changing position.
Looks like a Bb7 at the 6th fret?
But there are some inversions on the recording, none of them accentuating the major third . . . funk uses little partial chords, there are several guitars parts all contributing to the texture.
Last Edited by Gnarly on Mar 29, 2013 12:33 AM
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