Re: (TV) Re: TV Digest V2 #209

[Russ <russvr@gmail.com>]

Welcome to the group, Andy! Share your notes. Many of us here are musicians
and I sure someone might have some insight to give on Marquee Moon. Pretty
ambitious to cover the entire marquee moon album. Good luck!
- Russ

On 5/11/07, andy fekete <andy.fekete@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hey folks, first time poster here...
>
> Recently I've been getting together with some local musicians, and just
> for
> fun we decided to take some time to study and learn the entire Marquee
> Moon
> LP song by song.
>
> We've got the first three songs pretty much down, and right now I'm in the
> process of learning the solo of the title track.  I've transcribed all of
> it, but so far have not been able to decode it's unusual algorithmic
> nature.  I can of course learn it by rote, and have been doing that, but I
> feel I'm missing a once in a lifetime opportunity to crack the code, so to
> speak, to Verlaine's unique style of soloing.  This particular solo is in
> D
> Mixolidian, of course, but Verlaine is also methodically skipping certain
> intervals as he climbs around the scale, so that he never, ever sounds
> like
> Allman Brothers, or anyone else for that matter.
>
> Does anyone here know what I am talking about?  If so, can you share any
> insights with me?  I have some useful notes about the solo I can post here
> if you want.
>
> Any help would be appreciated,
>
> Andy
>
>
> On 5/10/07, TV Digest <tv-owner@brainiac.com> wrote:
> >
> >
> > TV Digest            Thursday, May 10 2007            Volume 02 : Number
> > 209
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