[HAM] BLINDFOLD TEST Number 6- The Answers

[Toussaint]

Ha, i knew it had to be Mc Duff...

"T" < practicin 4ths
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Subject: [HAM] BLINDFOLD TEST Number 6- The Answers


> Well, the fire's lit and it's time for another bedtime story from Old 
> Uncle
> Scott.
>
> The tune was Brother Jack McDuff, playing his original composition,
> "Walkin' The Dog." Live in Seattle, 1982, along with close to 40 other
> tunes he let me record that week and on another visit. All of the material
> is stupendous, or at worst, very good. I used to have much of it up on my
> site, but most of it's been gone for quite a while now. I may put some up
> again soon. He hauled his own broken-down B-3 around in a van with an
> apartment built into the back of it and an equipment bay behind that. We
> sat back there and smoked bowls. Yup. Send somebody to arrest us. The more
> he smoked the better he played. (Do not try this at home, kids.) He caught
> me one morning playing his organ (I worked there). He was rapping with his
> rings on the glass to get in. That's when the lessons began. He didn't say
> a lot but he demo'd a lot and had me play for him, where he would stop me
> and suggest better ways, always using humor. He was unbelievably kind, and
> supportive. He could play a lot more changes than he usually let on. The
> evidence is on the tapes.
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> The mystery chord would be known in school as a fourth-stack. In the key 
> of
> 'C,' the notes from the bottom up were F, Bb, Eb, and Ab. Sometimes the
> bottom 'F' was left off. The effect was tremendous partly because of the
> way he would trail it off by glissing the top note (or sometimes the top 2
> or 3 notes) all the way up to high 'C.' It had kind of a human-voice
> effect, like a woman saying "HUHHH???" or "YEAH?"
>
> Here are the chords for the TWO different bridges. I don't know if anyone
> here will try this, but if even one person does it will be worth posting,
> for the record. Did anyone notice the tune has TWO different bridges?
> McDuff thought differently than everybody else. These chords require a 
> hand
> span of a tenth, sorry. Try it; it is very satisfying to hear yourself 
> play it.
>
> The first bridge begins at 1:48, and it goes D7#9, spelled (D bass) F#, C,
> F, A, up to the same in Eb a half-step up, then D7#9b5, spelled (D bass)
> F#, C, F,  G#, then down to the same thing in Db (Db bass) F, B, Eb, G, 
> and
> then back home to C9, or actually, the C fourth-stack. (Jams in C9.)
>
> Second bridge, channel, or whatever it's called, starts at 3:17.
> The first chord is Gm11 with a C bass. C (bass), Bb, F, A, C. Some
> academics may want to call it a C13sus4th. I don't care! It is what it is.
> Next chord, I don't know what to call it, but simply raise the 'C' on top
> to 'C# and drop the 'F' to 'E." OK Alan, it's a C13b9. And now comes the
> "tri-tone substitution" trick. Keep that chord in your right hand if it
> hasn't cramped-up yet, but change the bass to F#! Wo, now it's turned into
> an, an, let's see, F#7#9. Man, I told you 'Duff knew what he was doin'. 
> Now
> the whole kit and kaboodle goes down chromatically by half-steps to wind 
> up
> in the key of Eb, where they stay and jam for eight bars! Sounds just like
> the head in 'C' but it's Eb7#9 instead.
>
> He's gotta get outta this and back to the key of 'C," so here's how that's
> done, if anybody's still reading:
> Play A13 as a passing chord, (A bass) G, C#, F#, then directly down to the
> same thing in 'Ab,' (Ab bass), Gb, C, F, then hold the right-hand chord 
> but
> change the bass to 'D' (tri-tone sub making a D7#9), then up to pop on the
> same thing in Eb (Eb bass) G, Db, Gb. Break immediately for one bar ONLY
> while playing the 'C' bass line, then hit the C fourth-stack. Whew!
>
> It's ridiculous to write all this down but few people really read music
> anymore, and this performance is not on records, I think maybe. I have
> regularly played this arrangement for many years (it's not that difficult
> with a little practice) and it never fails to bring the house down.
>
> One more important detail, the bass line. It begins as C G A G Bb G Db,
> (C). I'll leave the rhythm to your own ears. For some reason, after 2:05,
> the Db disappears and turns into a G, and never returns. All versions I've
> heard do that. It is easier that way, and maybe not as tuff, as in McTuff.
> Chalk it up to a couple of bowls.
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