The John Mayer tune. A quasi blues, I think. Anyone have an interesting approach to this song?
I've got to use a substitute musician/singer in a not strictly blues band I have for a September gig and this is a song he likes to sing. I like it and think it's pretty interesting. So I want to come up with something interesting to do with it on harp. Any suggestions?
We used to play this song with the students of the music school I worked at. For the "A" part the harpist played the G Major and C Major chords drawing and blowing holes 1 to 4.
Then for the rest of the song he filled the spaces between lyrics playing small major pentatonic licks, just to keep it bluesy.
Jay Gount plays great, but they are not playing the song, is just an improv over the sames chords. Is no the same. ---------- Sorry for any misspell, english is not my first language.
This doesn't have anything to do with Gravity , but it's so intriguing I've got to share it. Had to find a sub for a keyboard/ bass guitar player who sings and has an incredible left hand bass playing ability on keys. Format is an electric trio without drums that does roughly half instrumentals and half vocals. Settled on a bad ass bass guitar player as a sub who I've been on a few gigs with. Never heard him sing but he tells me he can (I couldn't find a keyboard player with a strong enough left hand that could also sing.)So I ask the bass player for a list of material he's comfortable singing. He sends me a list by email that includes, among other things, Gravity and HEATWAVE (the Martha and the Vandellas tune) !?
I email him back to say I don't think we can do HEATWAVE without drums. He emails me back to say that he has a bass line for that tune so strong that we won't need drums. I ran it by the guitar player who is cool with it. So, I guess we're gonna do it. The bass player said he'll write out charts for the sax/horn parts for me when he gets back from the Victor Wooten camp in Tennessee. This should be pretty interesting....
