THE MOTOWN STORY
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T-bone Ted
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I absolutely loved this documentary! Motown was magical back in the day. Arguably the best band ever was The Funk Brothers, Motown's in-house studio band. There should be a separate documentary solely about The Funk Brothers!
WingedWords
Friend of Leo's
Try this
I’ll tell you, I went to that fancy music school in Boston (and still have the student loans in my 50s to prove it) and of all the things I learned there, one of the most profound classes I took was a Motown ensemble class where we dissected the arrangements on all these classic songs. They were done so quickly and they are so clever, it’s incredibl.
Being Berklee, we were blessed with an abundance of guitar players (every ensemble had more guitar players than they knew what to do with back then) and I was there as a bass player. The craft of those 3 guitar Motown arrangements made a strong impression on me. The way they used different tones and voicings and it never sounded cluttered has continued to impact my playing ever since. Even in a one guitar setting, like I am mostly in these days, my instinct is to avoid playing in the same register as the lead vocal and I know I got that from that class. Plus, learning that repertoire was such a worthwhile songwriting education.
Being Berklee, we were blessed with an abundance of guitar players (every ensemble had more guitar players than they knew what to do with back then) and I was there as a bass player. The craft of those 3 guitar Motown arrangements made a strong impression on me. The way they used different tones and voicings and it never sounded cluttered has continued to impact my playing ever since. Even in a one guitar setting, like I am mostly in these days, my instinct is to avoid playing in the same register as the lead vocal and I know I got that from that class. Plus, learning that repertoire was such a worthwhile songwriting education.
slauson slim
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