LIVE FROM FLAT V by Josh Smith
SWITCHING GEARS
Josh Smith presented the meat and potatoes of the tune “Brown Gatton,” a song from his 2017 album, Still, that is a musical tribute to two of his heroes — the somewhat unlikely duo of the Godfather of Soul, James Brown, and jazz/rock/country guitar wizard Danny Gatton. This month, Josh shares some of the approaches he uses for soloing on the tune.
SWITCHING GEARS
Josh Smith presented the meat and potatoes of the tune “Brown Gatton,” a song from his 2017 album, Still, that is a musical tribute to two of his heroes — the somewhat unlikely duo of the Godfather of Soul, James Brown, and jazz/rock/country guitar wizard Danny Gatton. This month, Josh shares some of the approaches he uses for soloing on the tune.
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00:00all right Josh Smith here we were talking about my tune Brown Gatton last month and we worked
00:09through the meat and potatoes of the tune the changes the feel now let's talk about how I
00:14solo over this tune so like I mentioned there's a weird turn of time in this tune where after
00:20every three bars of four four times there's a bar of two four time and that enables you to have some
00:26really cool phrasing in your solo especially when you're moving between the two changes in the tune
00:31which are from E7 to C7 this kind of cool modulation sound so basically when I start soloing we come
00:39out of that bridge and we hit those so right there was the turnaround you kind of
00:56heard me start a phrase in a weird spot that would normally be in the middle of another bar
01:01of four four but it's the new bar and the guys hit it with me so I'm going
01:05basically starting a phrase in a weird spot and when you carry things through the bar line like that
01:19it just it's a great sound so especially when I move up to the C so let's say I'm on the second
01:25half of the phrasing it's like a weird spot to resolve and modulate to see so the ear just it's
01:42jarring to the ear especially you know but with the band we're all doing it together so it sounds right
01:47and it ends up I get to play a lot of phrases like this let's say going from
01:52so there's a cool way of going back from C
02:09and I modulate back to C before I mean back to E before the change happens to kind of you know
02:21foreshadow it I guess and and these are these are 100% Danny Gatton licks that I'm playing
02:26so you
02:39you