So after playing this one for 20 years, I'm wondering if I've been missing something the whole time, that being a possible change from A to G actually being an E minor.
this is an email from my guitar player:
Listen to the 2nd verse. It is not A > G. I've been on a 72 kick and listened to a few versions. Em is the chord, I think (just a guess by ear), and it's like a 4 note walk up. It occurs on the 2nd verse of 3 each time (so the 2nd verse & the 5th verse).
here's some examples.....
4:44 mark
http://www.archive.org/details/gd69-02- ... sbeok.shnf
5:34 mark
http://www.archive.org/details/gd1971-0 ... 627.flac16
11:42 mark (this is more the pace we play it, too)
http://www.archive.org/details/gd1972-1 ... y.160.shnf
1:19 mark - here's where you can hear Phil, but not Bob & keys
http://www.archive.org/details/gd1989-1 ... 495.flac16
FWIW, in David Frank's master class , he cites the chords to the whole tune as A to E minor---he writes this at the bottom of his description of Bob's role on the tune.
http://www.davefrankjazz.com/ustream/dead/dead.html
So, I'm wondering what the gurus of RUKind say about this one.
I personally listened to those versions (albiet at work and without a piano) on archive and thought I'm hearing the chords on said verse go straight to the E minor and stay there with a walkup of sorts over inversions of the E minor (rather than A>G or A> to E minor).
this is an email from my guitar player:
Listen to the 2nd verse. It is not A > G. I've been on a 72 kick and listened to a few versions. Em is the chord, I think (just a guess by ear), and it's like a 4 note walk up. It occurs on the 2nd verse of 3 each time (so the 2nd verse & the 5th verse).
here's some examples.....
4:44 mark
http://www.archive.org/details/gd69-02- ... sbeok.shnf
5:34 mark
http://www.archive.org/details/gd1971-0 ... 627.flac16
11:42 mark (this is more the pace we play it, too)
http://www.archive.org/details/gd1972-1 ... y.160.shnf
1:19 mark - here's where you can hear Phil, but not Bob & keys
http://www.archive.org/details/gd1989-1 ... 495.flac16
FWIW, in David Frank's master class , he cites the chords to the whole tune as A to E minor---he writes this at the bottom of his description of Bob's role on the tune.
http://www.davefrankjazz.com/ustream/dead/dead.html
So, I'm wondering what the gurus of RUKind say about this one.
I personally listened to those versions (albiet at work and without a piano) on archive and thought I'm hearing the chords on said verse go straight to the E minor and stay there with a walkup of sorts over inversions of the E minor (rather than A>G or A> to E minor).