| LearnJazzPiano.com archives: Steely Dan | |
| Jaumef -- 10/20/2006, 08:15:45 -- #30565 | |
| Hello friends. Somebody can help me with chords of Steely Dan song called “Do it again”?. Thanks. Jaumef. | |
| cflat -- 10/20/2006, 12:49:19 -- #30565 | |
| Try Googling "steely dan do it again guitar tab", I got several sites that claimed to have the chords, some of which actually did. cflt | |
| Mike -- 10/21/2006, 17:39:44 -- #30565 | |
| its a pop tune. You can buy sheet music to it anywhere that sells sheet music. | |
| casparus -- 10/22/2006, 16:26:53 -- #30565 | |
| Jaumef--Commercially realeased sheet music for pop tunes rarely is worth the paper it's printed on. Accurate internet posted guitar tabs are virtually non-existent. About 100 years ago a band I played in whipped though this one much like Donald and Walter did way back when. E-mail me at casparus50@yahoo.ca and I'll pass along a tab that will sound as Dannish as can be. | |
| jmkarns -- 10/23/2006, 11:54:14 -- #30565 | |
| Not that hard. It's in Em, and it's all over the Internet. | |
| jaledin -- 10/26/2006, 08:26:14 -- #30565 | |
| While I agree with you, casparus, about guitar tabs and such in general, the sheets for Dan's stuff I've seen have been reasonably accurate. Maybe in some cases, the sheets might have a triad over a bass note where an equivalent sound could be spelled using more extensions from the root, but these are usually resolved pretty easily by listening to the recording and deciding which non-chordal notes are the sweetest (I'm thinking about "Chain Lightning" here, for some reason, but I think the rule has general application). I can't remember which tune this one is, but maybe some of the other comments are a bit harsh -- I started transcribing Dan tunes after learning three or four of the tunes from "Morph the Cat," which are harmonically child's play compared to some of the classic tunes. That said, people (guitarists?) usually overestimate the complexity of their music. Essentially it's diatonic with a few "quirky" subs -- but all that crap about the "mu major" is just pure voodoo/b.s. I can see where someone would want to have a helping hand with spelling the chords, in a theoretical manner, though (beyond doing the easier work of reproducing the sounds on the keyboard -- I'd be surprised if anyone couldn't do that pretty easily with a record player and a piano). | |
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