00:00 All right, Josh Smith back again. This month we're going to start talking about my song
00:08 "Brown Gatton." This tune is from my album "Still," which was a jazzier album I did,
00:13 and the title should tell you a few things about this tune. It's basically James Brown
00:19 meets Danny Gatton. That's at least what I was thinking when I wrote it. So it's at its
00:24 heart a James Brown shuffle, like, you know, but mixed with Danny Gatton hybrid picking
00:34 and ideas, and of course some interesting twists and turns. So the phrase of the song,
00:39 the melody, the head of the song, has a two-beat bar, every third bar. So it goes like this,
00:47 "One, two, three." So what's happening there is, "Da da da da da da da da da da da da da
01:08 one two three four da da da da da da one two da da da da." So it's turning itself around
01:17 with a two-beat bar after every third bar of the melody. This leads to some cool twists
01:24 and turns, especially when you go through the change, because then the second time we
01:28 do it, we modulate to C. So we go...
01:43 So that adds a lot of kind of forward motion to the tune. When we hit those two two-beat
02:06 bars, it kind of, the audience kind of feels something, because something different than
02:11 the ordinary is happening, but it doesn't feel out of place, because it's still in the
02:15 same time signature. You're just dropping two beats and starting a phrase in a weird
02:20 spot as far as what the ear is used to. And then when we get into the solo later, that
02:25 makes for really great, cool phrasing things, because you can have licks that cross the
02:30 bar in a different way than you're used to and resolve in a weirder spot, and I love
02:35 that. And that was kind of the Danny Gatton twist on the James Brown thing. Then we get
02:39 to the bridge of the song, which goes to the four chord, and we're full on James Brown
02:44 here, where I'm playing straight eighth notes.
03:03 So we're basically chromatically moving around the four...
03:10 With those stabs on the five chord, and then we're into the solo. So that's the meat and
03:24 the potatoes of this tune, "Brown Gat."
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