00:00All right, Josh Smith back again. This month we're gonna start talking about my song Brown Gatton.
00:09This tune is from my album Still, which was a jazzier album I did, and the title should tell
00:15you a few things about this tune. It's basically James Brown meets Danny Gatton. That's at least
00:21what I was thinking when I wrote it. So it's at its heart a James Brown shuffle, like, you know.
00:30But mixed with Danny Gatton hybrid picking and ideas, and of course some interesting twists
00:37and turns. So the phrase of the song, the melody, the head of the song, has a two-beat bar every
00:44third bar. So it goes like this. One, two, three.
00:51One, two, three, four. One, two. So it's turning itself around with a two-beat bar after every
01:07third bar of the melody. This leads to some cool twists and turns, especially when you
01:12go through the change, because then the second time we do it, we modulate to C. So we go...
01:14So we go...
01:21So
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01:39so
01:45so
01:59that
02:00it adds a lot of kind of forward motion to the tune. When we hit those two two-beat bars,
02:06it kind of, the audience kind of feels something, because something different than the ordinary
02:11is happening. But it doesn't feel out of place, because it's still in the same time signature.
02:16You're just dropping two beats, and starting a phrase in a weird spot, as far as what the
02:21ear is used to. And then when we get into the solo later, that makes for really great,
02:26cool phrasing things, because you can have licks that cross the bar in a different way
02:30than you're used to, and resolve in a weirder spot. And I love that. And that was kind of
02:35the Danny Gatton twist on the James Brown thing. Then we get to the bridge of the song,
02:40which goes to the four chord, and we're full on James Brown here, where I'm playing straight
02:44eighth notes.
02:45So we're basically chromatically moving around the forward.
03:04With those stabs on the five chord, and then we're into the solo. So that's the meat and
03:24the potatoes of this tune, Brown Gatt.
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