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Post by windmill on May 3, 2020 21:38:57 GMT -5
Hello
I have learnt the opening riff from the Pink Panther theme but I am wondering what key it is in and what the actual chords for the rest of the tune are.
Any help will be appreciated.
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Post by Davywhizz on May 5, 2020 7:13:41 GMT -5
I've just had a really vivid flashback from almost 40 years ago. I'd got a regular gig with a West Indian reggae band and my first club date with them was a marathon one on New Year's Eve with a very early start. When I got there, it became clear why this was: it kicked off with a kids' party. And it got worse. The club manager asked us to play a short set, then some "Pink Panther music" when the Pink Panther himself arrived. Fortunately, some years before, I'd shared a house with a friend who was learning jazz arranging and we used to play through a lot of sheets. Somehow I remembered the first section or two of the PP theme. The reggae boys joined in, kind of, and we got away with it for just long enough until the guy in the pink costume left. After that, I had to play some keyboard tunes on a Hammond B3 for the children's games, because our organist had a meltdown due to the Pink Panther incident and just froze. I'm no keyboard player, not familiar with kiddie tunes and had never seen a B3 till that day. I still remember the sweat running inside my shirt. All in all, it was such an awful experience I now can't remember how to play any of the PP theme, sorry windmill. But it's a very clever piece of writing.
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Post by jazzguy on May 5, 2020 12:26:24 GMT -5
original was in E minor I believe but frequently played in C
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Post by Peegoo 🏁 on Jun 2, 2020 10:45:23 GMT -5
Have you made progress on this, windmill?
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Post by windmill on Jun 2, 2020 20:11:19 GMT -5
Thanks for the query. Have taken a while to get around to it. All the guitar tabs have been for just the intro. Most of the youtube videos are similiarly just for the intro and the rest are bass solos over the tune. But I did find a youtube video of a playalong of just the bass by "buttyshag" So I have just started notating what he is playing, I have got almost halfway through. It is amazing how many notes can be played within 5 seconds.
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Post by Peegoo 🏁 on Jun 3, 2020 1:20:41 GMT -5
Have you seen this? Listen to the recording in Em and you'll hear where all these chords go.
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Post by Peegoo 🏁 on Jun 3, 2020 1:26:53 GMT -5
And this one. Pretty stripped down but it sounds pretty good even on that cheap guitar:
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Post by windmill on Jun 3, 2020 1:47:27 GMT -5
I should have mentioned earlier that I am looking to play it on bass. I was hoping to get the chords and try and work out the bass part from them but after the intro its all a walking bass line, and as you know, those cats never play anything the same way twice ! Thanks for the help.
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Post by jdawg on Jun 3, 2020 18:51:40 GMT -5
We used to actually play this at parties and some times a gig. It always got a laugh or 2. It is in Em but I cannot remember much else about it.
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Post by Peegoo 🏁 on Jun 4, 2020 11:22:33 GMT -5
Ohhh.
WELL then!
I know these are not the droids you're looking for, but it's very very cool. I'm going to try this!
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Post by windmill on Jun 4, 2020 17:26:00 GMT -5
Thanks for posting that video. Its very nice. Perhaps once I have learnt the bass part and convinced my bandmates to play the tune, we might work it up to point where I could do a bass solo like that, it might take about 20 years to acheve all that tho'
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Post by Peegoo 🏁 on Jun 4, 2020 17:46:43 GMT -5
It's not that hard to do, and I'm not even a bass player. Okay--I'll admit my technique is crap and I get a lot of finger noise, but speed-wise, that bass solo thing is not too technically challenging.
Cheers!
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Post by jazzguy on Jun 4, 2020 21:42:53 GMT -5
Not hard on bass at all.
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