It's a system that presumes that the player has no talent so gives a mechanical solution and calls it improvisation. It's simply a formulae that asks you to read a chord designation and interpret that as notes to be played.without even knowing the sounds you're going to make! The notes will fit the structure, but will say nothing else. It requires no creativity and doesn't ask you to conceive of a tune or any flow of notes that says anything to anybody. The method prescribed in the video is the musical equivalent of 'paint by the numbers'. The more personal the better, and this can be recognized in every great player. Ideally what makes for a good or great player is that they make music that is a personal statement and communicates with their audience. Always sing and play within the rhythm and don't stop, even if you hit a wrong note. Try to sing a line, then play it on the sax. The harder part (and it can take a quite a while to master) is to make the sax our voice. We all have a voice (even if we aren't good singers), and that's where we can use our sax to sing for us.Ī simple practice is to sing a tune we know or variations of it. If you have a tune you can hear or a variation on a tune you know, then it's a matter of bringing that forward. For those who have a smidgen of talent you can engage your creativity directly and skip the mechanical phase altogether. MAVIS: Oh, Snoozeweek! That ain’t gonna get rid of no blues.Well, the video illustrates one way to consider improvising, but it's not the only way. MAVIS: Aw Bobby, don’t tell me you got the blues!īOB: Uh hum I’ve been up all night laying in bed, had insomnia, reading Snoozeweek. WOMAN?S VOICE: Sure, we got plenty of chicken out there in the yard.īOB: Well we’re gonna go knock a few of ‘em off and fry ‘em up. I’m kind of hungry now.īOB: Well I’m sure we do. MAVIS: Yeah, I was over in them foothills. MAVIS: Thank ya much! Whoa, you got a nice view!īOB: Yeeah, it is. My goodness, Bobby you got a nice place here!

MAVIS Hey fellows! What’s Up? Aw, it’s good to see all of you. MAVIS STAPLES: Hey, hey! Hey there, Bobby! Tell you something else: a great man will kill you with a sword,īOB: Now, look, someone is coming up the road, boys. I'll tell you something: things you never had, you'll never miss. O, Lord, you know I have no friend without you **) Storms on the ocean, storms out on the mountain too Well, there are storms out on the ocean, storms out on the mountain too Said, I'm all dressed up, going to the country danceĮvery day you gotta give yourself a chance.

Yes, I'm all dressed up, going to the country dance I'm steppin' out of the dark woods, I'm jumpin' on the monkey's back. The sun is shining, ain't but one train on this track Well, we live by the golden rule: Whoever got the gold rules.

Jesus is coming, he's coming back to gather his jewels I'm gonna revitalize my thinkin', I'm gonna let the law take its course Sittin' at the welcome table, I'm so hungry I could eat a horse Gonna sit at the welcome table, I'm as hungry as a horse Gonna put my best foot forward, stop being influenced by fools. I'm gonna change my way of thinking, make myself a different set of rules. power chords) instead of single notes, at least in some of the verses, as indicated in the first bar. There are variations, one of the most prominent being the use of parallel fifths (i.e. The tab below is just a synthesis of what is played in most of the verses. The version from Gotta Serve Somebody – The Gospel Songs of Bob Dylan (2003)(with Mavis Staples) He said, 'He who is not for Me is against Me,' You can take ahold of his heart with your eyes.įor you know not the hour in which I come.' |-|-|-5-5-3-5-3-3-|-5-5-3-5-5-Īnd old men turning young daughters into whores.īlood and water flowing through the land. The tab is just a suggestion it could be played elsewhere and in other octaves and so is the chords in parenthesis. There isn’t really much of a chord structure here, just a 12-bar blues riff.

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