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- From: mctkew@dct.ac.uk
- Newsgroups: alt.fan.frank-zappa
- Subject: Help on 555
- Message-ID: <1993Jan26.154312.3107@dct.ac.uk>
- Date: 26 Jan 93 15:43:11 GMT
- Organization: Dundee Institute of Technology
- Lines: 50
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- FIVE FIVE FIVE by FRANK ZAPPA
-
- A 5/4 guitar piece in B
-
- This piece is the first track form "Shut Up 'n Play Yer Guitar", and
- this is what I think it sounds like - it took me quite a while to work
- it out, and I would like to Know if it is correct. Could someone who has
- the Frank Zappa guitar book please tell me. I try and work out Zappa
- songs by ear so that my ear will improve, which in the last 18 months or
- so (since I worked out my first Zappa piece - Little House I used to
- live in from Burnt Weeny Sandwich) it certainly has.
-
- My ear is better at picking out horizontal lines than vertical
- intervals, so I'm a little puzzled by the intervals present. I tried
- playing 555 with fourth intervals harmonized above the melody. This
- seems right but is incredibly difficult to play !!!! - are these parts
- doubled by the other guitarists ??? - I would like any info on this
- before I spend months on learning the tune with fourth intervals added !!!
-
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- ----4-1-1-4-4-|-4-1-1-4-4-|-2-1-1-2-2-|-1-1-2-2-R-|
- --------------|-----------|-----------|-----------|
- --------------|-----------|-----------|-----------|
-
- --------------|-----------|-----------|-----------|
- --------------|-----------|-----------|-----------|
- ----1-------1-|-1-------1-|-3-------3-|---3-3-3-R-|
- ------1-1-1---|---1-1-1---|---1-1-1---|-1---------|
- --------------|-----------|-----------|-----------|
- --------------|-----------|-----------|-----------|
-
- --------------|-----------|-----------|-----------|
- --------------|-----------|-----------|-----------|
- ----4-3-3-4-4-|-4-3-3-4-4-|-3-1-1-3-3-|-1-1-3-3-R-|
- --------------|-----------|-----------|-----------|
- --------------|-----------|-----------|-----------|
- --------------|-----------|-----------|-----------|
-
- --------------|-----------|-----------|-----------|-----------|
- ----2-------2-|-2-------2-|-4-------4-|---4-4-4-R-|-5-4-4-4-5-|
- ------1-1-1---|---1-1-1---|---1-1-1---|-1---------|-----------|
- --------------|-----------|-----------|-----------|-X-9-OR-10-|
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-
- Ken Whelan
- MCTKEW@UK.AC.DCT
- "Whatever happened to all the fun in the world" - FZ
-