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Comment by Michael Schaefer on June 8, 2010 at 2:07pm

I love this tune. I'll have to play around with this one myself. :)

Comment by WILDMAN on June 8, 2010 at 11:08am

Thank You Chuck -I'll see what I can do with it-thanks again!!!!

Comment by Chuck Mayo on June 7, 2010 at 6:12pm

Files have been uploaded to: http://www.texasbluesroadhouse.com/forum/topics/files-for-wildman
Piano/bass/drums of the changes, and the Lyle Lovett cut.

Comment by Chuck Mayo on June 7, 2010 at 5:15pm

Hey Doug, here are the changes you asked about. This is actually a pretty fun tune with some interesting twists.

1) The first verse is pretty much just bass, drums & vocals, hard to get a decent idea what the changes are. Later in the tune, especially over the piano solo, the guitar starts playing chords and you can get a better idea what's going on during the verses.

2) Generally, you can get a pretty good idea what a chord is by the note the bass is playing. If the bass is playing an Eb, the chances are good that the chords is some kinda Eb. But there are exceptions, like when the bass is playing a chord tone that's not the root of the chord. In the 1st measure of the verses, the bass is moving to a C-natural but the chord is staying as an Ab (actually moving to an Ab9). Once you get used to hearing these Ab/C combinations, they're pretty easy to pick out.

3) In the 4th bar of the chorus, the D9 is a tritone substitution. My substitutions and passing chord workshop goes into tritones in more detail, but a tritone substitution is where you substitue a chord three whole steps higher than the usual chord. In the case of the 4th bar, the usual thing to do would be to play an A, then an A7 to lead back into the 4-chord Db9. Instead of the A7, we substitute a D9 (three whole steps up), which leads the progression to the 4-chord. A tritone substitution typically has the effect of leading into a chord change with a chord that's a half-step higher than the destination chord... in this case, 4# -> 4. If you'll get tritones under your fingers (back to my workshop), you'll probably find that a lot of the nicer chord variations you hear are actually tritone substitutions.

Enjoy!