* Guitar Solo over Vs.I * * Chorus * * Solo out on Gm7 * The 'Synth Solo' part is tough to make sense of without someone actually playing the solo along with you. Try playing it with the album to get the feel... I'm fairly certain the chords are correct. CHORD FORMATIONS: EAD...
chord on guitar, with the bass covering the Y note; the fingerings suggested above are for anyone who wants to replicate the overall sound of those chords on a single guitar. And, incidentally, Laura Nyro was using major triads with the fourth in the bass when Don and Walt were still pl...
type of Steely Dan chord - a triad with a different bass note. It's pretty hard to play the verse chords at the right speed - so you might have to forget about the bass note and just play the top strings. I think this is what the guitar on the record does anyway, but if you w...
The band lay down a tight and tumbling groove inside a three-line blues structure, and then careen down a corridor of jazz chords bolstered by exploratory piano and deft guitar lines. By this time, Steely Dan were still a conventional band with this song being a stalwart part of their li...
The most straightforward rock’n’roll song Steely Dan ever made is one of their most recognizable hits, a relentlessly happy-sounding shuffle with a tango of doubled guitar solos that could’ve come from Thin Lizzy. It was so bouncy that Donny and Mariecovered it on their variety showin ...
when that creeping bass line cedes passage to guitar and electric piano, and the backing vocals pipe up for “you were high!”—it’s easy to ignore the sophistication of its architecture. becker and fagen used obscure chords (like the mu major , a major triad with an added 2 or 9) ...
and he would always use guys like me and Larry Carlton and Jay Graydon and Dean Parks to flesh them out a little more. Steely Dan would be on a mission looking for the right sound, the right part. Even that little rhythm guitar part I do on “Deacon Blues,” they would spend a lon...
The guitar player is prepared by spoken word from the composers. And the bass players that we use are always people that we know and don’t need to have a written part — I haven’t played very much bass lately on Steely Dan albums; I play a little guitar and a little bass. ...
That guitar solo is Walter on an old Fender Mustang guitar with rusty strings, That’s a bad-ass solo, man.” And what about those multitudinous takes? “Oh yes!” laughs Porcaro. “Although their charts were meticulously written out for ensemble figures and general drum feel, there were ...
Rejoice, Steely Dan fans! The next best thing to seeing the real band live is a local group of ten exceptional musicians, “Hey, Nineteen,” who play the music, note perfect. Just getting the right chords to these songs is like making a politician tell the truth. I’m a drummer who ...