Playing with Grammy Nominated Michele Pillar

[Steve Krenz]

Hey all,

I thought you might be interested in this.  I play all kinds of things during the course of a week or month.

This week, I'm playing a small book signing with multi Grammy nominated singer, Michele Pillar. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michele_Pillar (Fun Fact: She was previously married to Larry Carlton.)

A mutual friend gave her my number a couple of weeks ago and she needed a guitar player for just a vocal/guitar couple of songs during this book signing event coming up on Thursday.

She sent me audio versions of the two songs we would be doing and I needed to write out the charts for them.

Here are the two songs...

And here are the charts I wrote out tonight. See if you can follow along!

We've got a rehearsal tomorrow then the book signing on Thursday.

I'll let you know how it goes. - Steve

 

 

[guitarben]

Thanks for posting this, it's very interesting to see your notes!

[colder]

Thanks Steve! I love to see this kind of "here's what we do in the real world" stuff! 

[Nutty1]

Wow! Thank you for sharing this with us Steve, it looks like you are going to help make it a great book signing. If by any chance someone videos it I would love to see the video. Have fun.

[Six String]

I would love to see that performance.

I think you could do a live lesson on how to create similar charts (maybe for a somewhat simpler song) and another on using them in a live situation.  

[Maybellene]

Thank you for sharing Steve. 

Have fun!

[UncleHammy]

Very cool @Steve Krenz sounds like a neat little gig.

[gotto]

Steve, can you explain the slash chords of Bm7 and E (last chord) used in the first song? I understand the rest.

Greg

[NeilES335]

1 hour ago, gotto said:

Steve, can you explain the slash chords of Bm7 and E (last chord) used in the first song? I understand the rest.

Greg

Obviously not Steve... I'm no expert, but Greg, if you mean (Untangle Me)  the 2nd last bar of Chorus 1 and 2,  doesn't that mean 2 beats of Bm7, followed by 1 beat of E(maj) with a G# in the bass, followed by A(maj) with a C# in the bass? 

(I couldn't find any other bars where a Bm7 is followed by an E.... learning like the rest of us)

That is an amazing skill; to able to hear the song and just "write out" the charts with all the advanced chords, and complex song structure. 

Edited April 24, 2018 by NeilES335

[Eracer_Team-DougH]

"Break a leg " Steve

[NeilES335]

19 hours ago, Steve Krenz said:

Hey all,

I thought you might be interested in this.  I play all kinds of things during the course of a week or month.

This week, I'm playing a small book signing with multi Grammy nominated singer, Michele Pillar. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michele_Pillar (Fun Fact: She was previously married to Larry Carlton.)

A mutual friend gave her my number a couple of weeks ago and she needed a guitar player for just a vocal/guitar couple of songs during this book signing event coming up on Thursday.

She sent me audio versions of the two songs we would be doing and I needed to write out the charts for them.

Here are the two songs...

And here are the charts I wrote out tonight. See if you can follow along!

We've got a rehearsal tomorrow then the book signing on Thursday.

I'll let you know how it goes. - Steve

 

 

Hey Steve; how about a video of your performance with Michele Pillar ? 

[gotto]

2 hours ago, NeilES335 said:

Obviously not Steve... I'm no expert, but Greg, if you mean (Untangle Me)  the 2nd last bar of Chorus 1 and 2,  doesn't that mean 2 beats of Bm7, followed by 1 beat of E(maj) with a G# in the bass, followed by A(maj) with a C# in the bass? 

(I couldn't find any other bars where a Bm7 is followed by an E.... learning like the rest of us)

That is an amazing skill; to able to hear the song and just "write out" the charts with all the advanced chords, and complex song structure. 

Ah yes , 3 chords in the bar is correct. It pays to look at the 2nd line of slashes. I was thinking the Bm7 F/G# was somehow one chord ( which didn't make sense to me) the way I was looking at it. Now it makes sense.

Greg

[Steve Krenz]

Gotto,

I'm not sure what bar you're talking about but In a couple of bars there is a Bm7 followed by an E/G#.  This is just an E chord with a different bass note. Whatever note is under the slash indicates the bass note.  In this case they wanted the third of the E chord, which would be a G#, as the bass note.

Giving different chord tones as the bass notes gives a chord a different flavor in their sound.

Maybe we can talk more about this in the next live lesson.

Learn all you can!

- Steve

 

[gotto]

Thanks Steve. That is what I was referencing and I do understand the  concept and the notation now. I just read the Bm7 coupled with the E/G# as one chord , not two.I am familiar with alternate bass notes in slash chords.  Clarified, it does makes sense and sounds great to my ear as well. I should have paid attention at the slash marks under the chords in the notation, and I would have recognized the notation as two chords, not one. 

Greg