00:16i'm going to talk about my tune direct flight this is one that i recorded that featured victor
00:20on the bass and it's actually kind of morphed a little bit in my live show we've kind of tightened
00:25up the arrangement a little bit gotten very specific and that's kind of what i want to talk
00:30about today if you listen to the guitar part it really is pretty easy it's an it's kind of an
00:36a a b a
00:37form where the a's are just a minor the b is c minor and then there's a riff
00:52okay now when i'm playing the comping parts because really this is a horn tune i kind of
00:58wanted to have honestly my inspiration for this was the tune flight of the bumblebee i wanted to
01:03do something that was kind of like funky flight of the bumblebee like if tower of power wrote
01:07flight of the bumblebee or something that's that's what i was thinking for this one so my guitar part
01:13i want you to pay attention to one thing i'm going to i'm going to do something with my hand
01:17where i'm going to show you where the keys fill a space and then i fill my space so if
01:21you listen
01:21to this tune you'll very much hear that the guitar lands in one place and the keyboard lands in another
01:27and we're very intentional about that in our arranging because a lot of when there's a band this big
01:33there's a 10-piece band there's a lot of room to just step on each other and communication and
01:39arrangement is key so the guitar part goes like this
01:57that's kind of the main part now in the holes the keyboard goes kink kink i'll sing the part
02:13actually you know what here's here's a better thing i'll just play the keyboard part for you
02:18so the keyboard goes
02:36boom now we're at the top of the phrase and what you notice is the keyboard going
02:42gives a lot of power to the downbeat and then in my space in the space that i leave
02:50the keyboard all of a sudden can can occupy that and if we pan left and right it all of
02:56a sudden
02:56feels a little bit like a conversation
03:13can we go up to c
03:21unison
03:40compositionally that's about all you need to know guitar wise for this tune
03:45but what what's important to recognize is that everything is again intentional i'm playing a
03:51specific rhythm that kind of has a
03:57it's kind of minneapolis feel you know it's very prince in its nature
04:04i'm almost emulating like some of prince's lindrum loops that he used on early albums and just kind of
04:11adding pitches to them adding a little riff to it and then uh when i after i go up to
04:17the c minor
04:17the band as a unison
04:21to really just give a lot of power in that so everybody's doing their own thing it's bouncing back
04:26and forth and then it comes together to this
04:29and all of a sudden it makes this really powerful impact so sometimes with my arrangements what i try to
04:36do
04:36is i try to have things that feel a little bit opposite or accent each other play off of each
04:41other
04:41and maybe a call and response and then at times land together so the listener really knows oh this
04:48is intentional these people are coming together it's unified and then all of a sudden it splits
04:52and then it comes together i think that sort of weaving in and out of each other's parts
04:57is a really fun way to arrange for multiple guitars or multiple instruments
05:02because you can think like an orchestra think like an orchestral arranger
05:11you
05:11and then it's a really fun way to play it
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