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Post by Blacksunshine on Jun 26, 2020 11:10:25 GMT -5
Back when I was in college jazz band I overheard this conversation between two jazz cats. It's pretty much true!
I have a Steely Dan songbook, I started tackling it last night.
41 different chords!
Anybody worked it out? Either to play live, or just to learn?
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Post by Peegoo 🏁 on Jun 26, 2020 12:22:21 GMT -5
I have this tune and a bunch of other SD tunes in my bag. I'm not a particularly good player, but I have no trouble playing these; it all comes down to practice and repetition. One of the things I've learned about playing tunes with more chords than five songs combined is to experiment with chord placement on the fretboard. This helps me quite a bit because some chords I can get to in a jiffy and some just give me fits. It does matter though, in some cases, that a chord is played in a specific place in order to get the proper register of notes to nail the feel of the tune. Playing Dan stuff is not easy. Playing and singing it is not easy X 10  The real fun ones to pull out at a jam are Josie, Reelin' In the Years, and Rikki Don't Lose That Number. If you have a bassist and drummer that know the tunes, it is a real roller-coaster ride as a trio. If there's a keys player, all the better! You don't see many bar bands playing this stuff. |
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Post by Blacksunshine on Jun 27, 2020 13:37:13 GMT -5
That's cool you have SD tunes in your bag. Not a lot of players/bands can say that!
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Post by Peegoo 🏁 on Jun 27, 2020 20:27:55 GMT -5
Well, the people I get together with really like to mix it up, so I bring in stuff that's challenging. I have no interest in playing Can't You See and Margaritaville and Brown Eyed Girl and Mustang Sally. I'd rather stick a spoon en my eye. I figure if I were making things un-fun, they'd stop inviting me to jams and that hasn't happened yet. Perhaps it's because I usually supply the PA. hmmmm...  |
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Post by Ayns on Jun 28, 2020 5:17:21 GMT -5
We play(ed  ) Reelin In The Years. Our Bass player would like to do Rikki/ Do It Again. I think most other SD songs would fall on deaf ears at the places we play (ed). |
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Post by Peegoo 🏁 on Jun 28, 2020 11:02:41 GMT -5
Do It Again is probably the easiest (chord-wise and arrangement-wise) in the SD catalog. It's a great song for jams because you can go around the circle of players and everyone can take a solo.
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Post by Geno on Jun 28, 2020 16:46:28 GMT -5
The intro to Deacon Blues is pretty easy, as are some of the changes throughout the verse and chorus. But they throw in passages here and there that are hard to grasp, and the solo section is just bizarre.
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Post by Duke on Jun 29, 2020 9:43:18 GMT -5
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) Reelin In The Years. Our Bass player would like to do Rikki/ Do It Again. I think most other SD songs would fall on deaf ears at the places we play (ed). 
