Track #3 from Layla & Other Assorted Love Songs. Measure 49 is curious. It's in the bridge in the middle of the guitar solo. It sounds like it drops an 8th note. Do other Clapton versions do the same?
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Submission Keep on Growing
- Thread starter LeeNunn
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It's only my speculation!
I would say that Measure 49 is "less accurately" rendered 8th triplets and not some 7/8 insert that appeared out of the blue.
What would be the reason just ONE time to insert that unusual 7/8 into the normally flowing song while jamming?
From here:
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"Eric Clapton wrote this with Bobby Whitlock, who played several instruments on the album. Says Whitlock, "Keep On Growing was a jam. We had one called 'Airport Shuffle.' It wasn't called 'Keep On Growing,' it was just a jam. We jammed in front of 50,000 people, we would open our shows by just jamming. Now there are bands that do nothing but that. It was a jam we did during the sessions. They were going to can it because it was an instrumental. It always gave us something to loosen up with. You take all the vocals off, and you've got a great instrumental. They were going to keep it off the record, and I said, 'No man, you can't do that, this is too good.' I said, 'Give me 20 minutes,' so they stopped what we were doing and chilled out and I took a pencil and paper, went out to the lobby at Criteria - the studio we recorded at in Miami - and wrote the melody and the lyrics. They just fell out of me. I went back in and sang it. They turned a tape on and I tried to sing it myself and it just didn't come off right. They loved the song and what I'd done to it, so I told Eric, 'Why don't we do this like a Sam & Dave thing - you sing a line, I sing a line, we'll sing a line together.' We did it like that and it worked out. We did it right on the spot. That particular song was fresh picked, straight off the vine. What you hear on the Layla album was the first performance."
Another Data point: I have the guitar book and they mark it as one measure of 3/4
It just shows that there is an "issue" about that Measure 49, but...
I disagree with 3/4 measure. As LeeNunn transcribed, it's more subtle like 7/8 but...
What is the reason (it's a rhetorical question) to create that 7/8 during jamming, during nicely-flowing song, and just one time....
