Rhythm for "Respect" a la Otis Redding

[TeleHawg]

I'm currently playing with a bare-bones group: me on guitar, a drummer, a bass player, and a singer.

With this venue, there's not much room for solos -- which is fine by me -- and I'm trying to come up with an interesting part for "Respect," something that at least suggests the horn lines.

Any suggestions from you pros out there? Given the sparseness of this group, would you stick to block chords or various seventh voicings higher on the neck?

Steady four-four or chanks on the off-beats?

Something else?

I'll be grateful for any ideas.

[klasaine]

Even more important than your part is that the bass player HAS TO PLAY I'm assuming, Duck Dunn's bass line. That's mandatory!

For you on the verses, the V to IV part (A to G) I'd stick to just the 'chopped' quarter notes on the down beats.

Now the chorus, the part with the horns (which as you point out are very important in this case) here's what I'd do (kind of another Cropper inspired part) ...

A D7 (10th fret barre chord) on the downbeat followed by pair of "sliding 6th's" - F# and D down to E and C.
For the G7 I'd kind of walk up the triad (starting at the 10th fret 5th string) ala Cropper, Mayfield, Hendrix.

I hope this makes some sense.

[graphs]

^^i'm trying this when i get home tonight.

[Jim W]

The Rationals (my favorite version) did Respect with guitar, bass and drums. That verison might give some ideas. There is a sound recording on youtube.

Jim

[TeleHawg]

Originally Posted by klasaine

Even more important than your part is that the bass player HAS TO PLAY I'm assuming, Duck Dunn's bass line. That's mandatory!

For you on the verses, the V to IV part (A to G) I'd stick to just the 'chopped' quarter notes on the down beats.

Now the chorus, the part with the horns (which as you point out are very important in this case) here's what I'd do (kind of another Cropper inspired part) ...

A D7 (10th fret barre chord) on the downbeat followed by pair of "sliding 6th's" - F# and D down to E and C.
For the G7 I'd kind of walk up the triad (starting at the 10th fret 5th string) ala Cropper, Mayfield, Hendrix.

I hope this makes some sense.

Hmmm . . .

Are the sliding sixths on the G and E strings? How are the four beats of the D7 measure distributed?

Barre D7/ F# + D / F + C# / E + C -- something like that?

Now, the four beats of G7, would I start on E/G# and walk up through F/A and F#/Bb to G/B?

I really want to try this, but my attempts don't seem to fit the tune, so please let me know if I've understood you.

And thanks!

[klasaine]

So this is the "CHORUS" we're talking about. The D7 to G7 part.

The D7 is just beat 1 of the first bar then do the 6th's F#/D down to E/C (on the G and E strings).

The 2nd measure - the G7 - start with a G7 chord at the 10th fret and then move up to a B on the 5th string 14th fret - I'm gonna attempt to TAB this part ...

----10------------------------------------------
----12------------------------------------------
----10------------------------------------12----
----12---------------------12-----14------------
----10--------10-----14------------------------
----X-------------------------------------------

You are playing the song in "D", right? That's the key of the Otis version on my recording (and that's the key I'm thinking in).

It's very difficult to TAB this stuff because it's such a rhythmic dependent thing. I am 'sort of' mimicking the horn parts.