27.2.11

Daily Licking 024: Chorus 4 Of Mr. P.C.

The merciless onslaught continues. I had the ominous feeling while doing this chorus that...he is just getting warmed up. Yikes.
OMG!OMG!OMG! He played a Bb on the C min!!!
Okay, well don't get as excited as I did, because he only plays it for half a beat, on the very last beat of a measure of the C min, before it goes to the F min, measures 4 to 5. He only resorts to playing the B flat instead of the B natural (which he already played 3 times in the 4 measures before that) so he can really set up the F minor. He anticipates the change by a half a beat and listen to how it sets up that F min.



The first 10 measures are pretty scary and are all pretty much part of the same big 'ol phrase. He makes a complete line that mows right through those measures with only one or two short rests and it is rock solid. Now thats a phrase. He is just mocking us at this point.

Other things going on during this chorus:
  1. The digital patterns are all over the place. Almost every measure in some form.
  2. He uses the nifty G maj - C min, V-I substitution/implication/insertation thingy again in measure 7
  3. He keeps the theme of varying the rhythms on the Ab and G measures. The rest of the chorus is usually always eighth notes, and then on those measures he mixes it up. The notation represents the best attempt at converting the slurs he does, but there really isn't a way to do those the same way for us stringed folks.
Also, in case you were not hip to how the tag cloud over there on the right works, you can just go to this page to see just the posts about this topic. They will all show up there. Auto-magically.
http://bassoridiculoso.blogspot.com/search/label/Mr. P.C.
And 4 choruses in and not single comment! WTH? Cmon' people. Say something already. Here you go, as before a fast version and a slow one.
90 bpm
bass lick 4/4 tempo 90 | CMin7 r8 c b d c d eb f | g eb c d f d b d | c g a b c d eb f | g8 c- e g c4~ c8 bb | Fmin ab f r8 ab bb4~ bb4 | bb8 ab bb g ab16 g16 eb8 b ab | Cmin7 g a b d c d eb f | g d f d eb c r4| Ab7 r8 gb8 ab16 bb16 c16 eb16 gb16 bb16 db8 r4 | G7 r8 b- [d8 f8 a8] db-16 d16 a+16 g16 f16 ab16 c8 | Cmin7 b16 r16 r8 r4 [a8 b8 c8] d8 c8 | Cmin7 b8 ab g gb f eb d c |
260 bpm
bass lick 4/4 tempo 260 | CMin7 r8 c b d c d eb f | g eb c d f d b d | c g a b c d eb f | g8 c- e g c4~ c8 bb | Fmin ab f r8 ab bb4~ bb4 | bb8 ab bb g ab16 g16 eb8 b ab | Cmin7 g a b d c d eb f | g d f d eb c r4| Ab7 r8 gb8 ab16 bb16 c16 eb16 gb16 bb16 db8 r4 | G7 r8 b- [d8 f8 a8] db-16 d16 a+16 g16 f16 ab16 c8 | Cmin7 b16 r16 r8 r4 [a8 b8 c8] d8 c8 | Cmin7 b8 ab g gb f eb d c |

6 comments:

Mike said...

I love it! This website needs some more promotion, I'll see where I can post it. I've been on holiday so I've got a lot to catch up with but please keep it up, I know a lot of people appreciate your hard work :)

Bassist Ridiculoso said...

Thanks, anywhere you can spread the word would be mucho appreciado!

I have spammed all the usual places already, and they do send folks this way, but if you know of any other places, let me know.

Anonymous said...

Awesome site. I was reading your excitement about the Bb and wanted to chime in and say that it is really diatonic passing right? Isn't the seven in Cmin7 Bb? C Eb G Bb? Anyhow, you do a great service all that aside. What program do you use to make all those nifty playable scores?

Bassist Ridiculoso said...

Yes, the Bb is the b7 of Cmin, and that would be what you would play if you were going up and down the chord, but Coltrane keeps playing a B natural instead, until this chorus where he goes Bb. I would probably consider the B natural what some folks call an "approach note" a note a half step below (in this case, although they can be above too) a chord tone. If he was going from the Bb to the B to the C I would probably call it a passing tone, but he doesn't really use it like that, he isn't running the Bebop scale (which uses that b7, natural 7, root combination). But like many things music, there are going to be different ways of looking at it, so that is just my interpretation. He plays the Bb more as the 4th of Fmin, to really set that up, I think.

As far as the transcriptions, I use a free service from http://my.bopland.org that anyone can use. If you include a small chunk of javascript on your page (instructions are on the site) you can do the same thing. You enter the notes as regular text, it looks like "c4 e4 g4" that would play a c triad in quarter notes, and then the service renders all that and gives you what you see on the site here. You can see what each transcription gets entered as if you click on the "Source Code" tab of the transcription player.

Anonymous said...

You are probably right. I'm a newbie to jazz but I am a classically trained player and composer and just saw it through that lens, a lot like Bach would use the seven as a passing ton to the third of the next chord. Thanks again your site is great. Keep up the good work.

Anonymous said...

That's tone not ton.

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