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Question: Are some of these just "clams"...that didn't get fixed with a punch-in or edit?
Bass Player did an Elton John transcription ("Benny and The Jets", IIRC) with a couple of glaring flubs by Dee Murray...like playing a "D" on the 1st beat of a "C"-chord (or vice versa).
Anyway, just wondering.
As always, I enjoy your stuff, Chris...and WUTP's analysis. :)
 
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JimK said:
Question: Are some of these just "clams"...that didn't get fixed with a punch-in or edit?
Bass Player did an Elton John transcription ("Benny and The Jets", IIRC) with a couple of glaring flubs by Dee Murray...like playing a "D" on the 1st beat of a "C"-chord (or vice versa).
Anyway, just wondering.
As always, I enjoy your stuff, Chris...and WUTP's analysis. :)
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That happened quite a lot in those days as tapes were expensive. Some, like Miles Davis, just left mistakes on the recording. If you didn't want your mistakes on the album, well, you shouldn't have played a mistake then.

Of course, sometimes it's meant like that. A D over a C major chord (or vice versa) isn't that uncommon. Chords also get changed when recording different versions. I will check the song again to see what happens in places were the chord structure is repeated. But, I heard this song a few too many times at the moment. It'll be on my to-do-list.
 
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JimK said:
Question: Are some of these just "clams"...that didn't get fixed with a punch-in or edit?
Bass Player did an Elton John transcription ("Benny and The Jets", IIRC) with a couple of glaring flubs by Dee Murray...like playing a "D" on the 1st beat of a "C"-chord (or vice versa).
Anyway, just wondering.
As always, I enjoy your stuff, Chris...and WUTP's analysis. :)
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I think it's that place around 1:17 from the video where the piano plays C major, Bb/C and C major before the Gmaj on Beat 1.

 
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ChrisDev said:
That happened quite a lot in those days as tapes were expensive. Some, like Miles Davis, just left mistakes on the recording. If you didn't want your mistakes on the album, well, you shouldn't have played a mistake then.

Of course, sometimes it's meant like that. A D over a C major chord (or vice versa) isn't that uncommon. Chords also get changed when recording different versions.
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In Jazz, there are no wrong notes...only wrong rhythms.
:)

I think in the Elton John tune...it was played "correctly" every other time but that one time.
I have some free time (duh); I will look for that issue for a refresh.
 
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JimK said:
In Jazz, there are no wrong notes...only wrong rhythms.
:)

I think in the Elton John tune...it was played "correctly" every other time but that one time.
I have some free time (duh); I will look for that issue for a refresh.
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I've checked about 8 live versions and could not find any "incorrectness" with that bass line in that C, Bb/C, C measure. It's either just C, or a repetition of the eighth notes of Bb and A, etc...

But the original one had some issues.:confused: o_O

In that measure of C, C/Bb, C6 (around 1:16, the bass plays a fill in with the following notes.

C - A - B - C - D - (slide from Eb)D and E (slide up) - F - F# to G.
 

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