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It's not every day that you get a chance to jam with the likes of B3 masters Joey DeFrancesco, Doug Riley, Booker T. Jones, along with a keyboardist who may have been Herbie Hancock, the Muscle Shoals Horns, and some of the best percussionists money can buy (didn't bother learning their names, sorry).
At least it's not every day for most people, but these clowns bug me on a daily basis to jam with them, so I finally relented this morning and said, "alright cats, let's play a simple 12-bar blues, only let's make it 19 bars long, with deflections to the chromatic submediant, Neapolitan chord, and so on, keeping it in C all the way through except for the parts that are in other keys whose names I never learned. When it is your turn to solo, I will guide you by manipulating Voodoo (although I personally prefer the spelling, Vodou) dolls dressed up like Dallas Cowboys cheerleaders. Hit a wrong note, and the doll gets a pin stuck in it. Any questions?"
I then fell asleep in a drunken stupor, which always results in a really deep rest, and when I awoke, this jazzy little number is what they left me. I hereby claim it as my own, unless people don't like it, in which case the musicians are a bunch of idiots and I had nothing to do with it.
Photo: The hand of one of my sons, taken at Disneyworld this past December. Can anyone guess where in WDW this was taken?
Tech note 1: This was all done in GarageBand, with much pencil tooling.
Tech note 2: Notwithstanding the silliness in the song description above, it really is based on a 12-bar blues, but with what I hope are numerous unexpected aspects that take it away from that form, including modulations to sometimes remote keys... It starts in C, there's a section in F#, for example, and it ends in Eb.
Tech note 3: The song upload page wasn't working properly when I uploaded this, and I inadvertently ended with multiple uploads of the same track, but the duplicates have now been deleted. If people on my E-mail notification list got four notices of an uploaded track of mine, that's why.
At least it's not every day for most people, but these clowns bug me on a daily basis to jam with them, so I finally relented this morning and said, "alright cats, let's play a simple 12-bar blues, only let's make it 19 bars long, with deflections to the chromatic submediant, Neapolitan chord, and so on, keeping it in C all the way through except for the parts that are in other keys whose names I never learned. When it is your turn to solo, I will guide you by manipulating Voodoo (although I personally prefer the spelling, Vodou) dolls dressed up like Dallas Cowboys cheerleaders. Hit a wrong note, and the doll gets a pin stuck in it. Any questions?"
I then fell asleep in a drunken stupor, which always results in a really deep rest, and when I awoke, this jazzy little number is what they left me. I hereby claim it as my own, unless people don't like it, in which case the musicians are a bunch of idiots and I had nothing to do with it.
Photo: The hand of one of my sons, taken at Disneyworld this past December. Can anyone guess where in WDW this was taken?
Tech note 1: This was all done in GarageBand, with much pencil tooling.
Tech note 2: Notwithstanding the silliness in the song description above, it really is based on a 12-bar blues, but with what I hope are numerous unexpected aspects that take it away from that form, including modulations to sometimes remote keys... It starts in C, there's a section in F#, for example, and it ends in Eb.
Tech note 3: The song upload page wasn't working properly when I uploaded this, and I inadvertently ended with multiple uploads of the same track, but the duplicates have now been deleted. If people on my E-mail notification list got four notices of an uploaded track of mine, that's why.
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PaulaMunk
of course, blame the Italian sausage and peppers you had last night. You may need to see a therapist what with Vodou Cheerleading dolls and Neapolitan C chords all showing up in the same paragraph. I bet you think no one reads these descriptions. Nice one. Thanks.