Spooky - tutorial

An Atlanta Rhythm Section classic: this video breaks down how i play this great tune....thanks for watching!

guitar - Fender Telecaster

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rVSlAil0Igw

Thanks for posting this - I love this song and will definitely check out your YouTube!

thanks for giving your time to check this out.....dale.

For the A chord, I hear an A13...

5x567x

Check it out.

Cheers

For the A chord, I hear an A13...

5x567x

Check it out.

Cheers

that will work but not what ARS is doing - if you want a visual check it out (3:44)

Cheers

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3mlkZ7APFiY

that will work but not what ARS is doing - if you want a visual check it out (3:44)

Cheers

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3mlkZ7APFiY

No, Dale, they aren't playing 5x567x, but they aren't playing x07675 either. Look at this video at 0:56 and you can see that the chord in question is fingered 575675 - the typical barred A13, sometimes called A6. I guess it is technically A7add6 since the 9th is omitted.

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An Atlanta Rhythm Section classic: this video breaks down how i play this great tune....thanks for watching!

guitar - Fender Telecaster

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rVSlAil0Igw

Nice tutorial, very smooth.

Nice tutorial, very smooth.

thanks so much for checking it out....all the best with your music!

I wouldn't go by that 'vintage' ARS vid. It's just 'synched' (and very well I might add) live footage to the studio single.
I've played this tune for 30 years probably and I still don't know 'exactly' how the guitar is voiced on the record, with or w/o the b7 in the chord - ?

Across the band - in the arrangement - the b7 is in there somewhere.

*Also, I think I hear a #9 on the B chord in the intro but the guitar probably isn't playing it.
What do you think Dale?

Yeah, Ken, but they would still play a chord the same way on stage as they did in the studio, wouldn't they? Dale's visual didn't prove to me that the guy was playing xx7675, either. Also, wouldn't the m3 sound the same as the #9? Or are you saying you hear the major 3rd too? It sounds like Bm7 to me.

Yeah, Ken, but they would still play a chord the same way on stage as they did in the studio, wouldn't they? Dale's visual didn't prove to me that the guy was playing xx7675, either. Also, wouldn't the m3 sound the same as the #9? Or are you saying you hear the major 3rd too? It sounds like Bm7 to me.

Probably not actually. That's a THICK arrangement and I know that you have to almost always adapt to a live arrangement. But like I said, I'm not sure what I hear in that rhythm track. I think I hear a G in there but honestly I don't know where. Keys maybe - ?

As for the intro: something in that chord has always tweaked my ear - in a good way. I think within the entire band arrangement some one is playing a D# in their chord making a big B7#9.

I think the B7#9 sounds cool there, so I'd play it anyway no matter what was on the record, but I defer to you on the live/studio question. You have a lot more experience there than I do. We always played the same chords live that we played on recordings, but we were pretty unsophisticated and only a 4 pc. combo, at that.

That was great Tonedr. Thanks, KY

The Classic IV version blows this away. Just sounds so much cooler in Fm7 key to start.
This always reminded me of the "vegas version",,,good stuff tho.

This is a standard in my October collection.

I enjoyed the video, thanks...I've been playing that song for years and play it pretty much like you do. Good job.

Thanks for your kind post....greatly appreciated!

The Classic IV version blows this away. Just sounds so much cooler in Fm7 key to start.
This always reminded me of the "vegas version",,,good stuff tho.

This is a standard in my October collection.

I agree

thanks for each post and the great discussion on this great tune!

Great work as expected! I'm looking forward to learning this one!

thanks so much sir...i hope folks will check out your channel and playing - you do some amazing work!!

dale

I thought I heard a million years ago that ARS was in fact the Classic IV - that Classic IV was a group of studio musicians who made the hit and then called themselves a band -

and that "Spooky" and "So Into You" by ARS are the same song.

Anybody with me? Or was it something I was smoking back then?

A few members of the Classics IV and the Candymen did indeed become ARS. They were put together by Buddy Buie, (Classics IV, ARS as well as Roy Orbison's band) to be the house band at Atlanta's new Studio 1 recorders.
'So Into You' is similar, same key but definitely not the same as Spooky. So into you is sort of a minor blues and has a different groove. I think it was the 'follow up' single.
*Actually 'Stormy', another ARS cover is a lot closer to Spooky.

A few members of the Classics IV and the Candymen did indeed become ARS. They were put together by Buddy Buie, (Classics IV, ARS as well as Roy Orbison's band) to be the house band at Atlanta's new Studio 1 recorders.
'So Into You' is similar, same key but definitely not the same as Spooky. So into you is sort of a minor blues and has a different groove. I think it was the 'follow up' single.
*Actually 'Stormy', another ARS cover is a lot closer to Spooky.

Thank you for the insight - and the correction - Stormy is what I was thinking of but could not name -

I can't access youtube....old computer....so I can't follow tonedr's tutorial.
I have played this song solo for a long time. I used to use an Em7 at the 7th fret and move to an A6. I have changed it lately. First, I went to an A13 with an open 5th string. Then, I formed a different Em7. I like this voicing better than the barre m7.

Em7
---0
---8
---7
---5
---7
0---

A13
...x....
...7....
...6....
...5....
0..........5
x......7.........little bass lick leading back to the I chord

AT the end of the verse....Adim, and then Bm7 for the V chord.

thanks for your post!!

Wow! Great stuff! Gives me an excuse to break out this:

http://i292.photobucket.com/albums/mm17/e-merlin/Telecaster%20FMT%20HH/DSCN0884.jpg

Duncan JB in the neck.

Should be really nice through my Triumph's big fat clean channel.

As usual, you nail the tone. One of my favorite bands.

oh yea - sounds like a nice rig!! Appreciate the kind post sir.....dale.