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I like this. Nice use of alternating 3/4 to 4/4 cadences. Then the straight 4/4 in the B section (If I wander...). Even shifting to a 2/4 feel (The longer I run...), though evenly counted and 4/4 like, the feel does change at the 2/4 section later in the tune. All seamlessly and furthering the magnetic pull of the narrative. But the alting 3/4 to 4/4 and back of the early verses is the heart of the song for me.

 

peter bradley adams

 

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Now go eat some hot dogs and blow up some sh!t in the annual humiliation of King George III.

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more poignant strummy acousticy americana - The Weepies. I think I'd be happy if they'd let me join their band. I wouldn't cause a fuss, I'm easy to get along with and I'd write some great songs for them, just one per album would be ok, and I could play some very subdued yet perfectly clever licks. Please?

 

happy 4th! mixed feelings!!

 

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nat whilk ii

 

 

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I like this. Nice use of alternating 3/4 to 4/4 cadences. Then the straight 4/4 in the B section (If I wander...). Even shifting to a 2/4 feel (The longer I run...), though evenly counted and 4/4 like, the feel does change at the 2/4 section later in the tune. All seamlessly and furthering the magnetic pull of the narrative. But the alting 3/4 to 4/4 and back of the early verses is the heart of the song for me.

 

peter bradley adams

 

[video=youtube;uFI_GCjNlfk]

 

Now go eat some hot dogs and blow up some sh!t in the annual humiliation of King George III.

 

Yes - I like this all round.

The chorus rhythm is great. It's a sort of rolling, rollicking rhythm that is present in some banjo picking patterns.

It's interesting the way it is achieved with the off-set rhythms of the 2 instruments.

Maybe they're not off-set, but that's the only way I can explain what my ear is hearing.

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Yes - I like this all round.

 

The chorus rhythm is great. It's a sort of rolling, rollicking rhythm that is present in some banjo picking patterns.

 

It's interesting the way it is achieved with the off-set rhythms of the 2 instruments.

 

Maybe they're not off-set, but that's the only way I can explain what my ear is hearing.

 

 

 

Right. The piano playing simple upbeats integrating into the picked guitar.

 

 

 

​And check how in the intro, the guitar's phrase in both measures 3 and 7 sound like 3/4 but they're not. The intro is straight 4/4 but measures 3 and 7 imply 3/4, which of course is coming up in the verses. Subtle and very clever.

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Chick Webb Orchestra, with Ella Fitzgerald, "Wacky Dust." (1938)

 

Music by Oscar Levant, Lyric by Stanley Adams.

 

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Manhattan Transfer, "Wacky Dust." (synths replacing the Big Band arrangement).

 

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They call it wacky dust

It's from a hot cornet

It gives your feet a feeling so breezy

And oh, it's so easy to get

 

They call it wacky dust

It brings a dancing jag

And once it starts, then only a

Sap'll refuse to Big Apple or Shag

 

Oh I don't know just why it gets you so high

Putting a buzz in you heart

You'll do a marathon you'll wanna go on

Kickin' the ceilin' apart

 

They call it wacky dust

It's something you can't trust

And in the end the rhythm will stop

When it does, then you'll drop

From happy wacky dust

 

Oh we don't know just why it gets you so high

Putting a buzz in you heart

You'll do a marathon you'll wanna go on

Kickin' the ceilin' apart

 

They call it wacky dust, yeah

It's something you can't trust

And in the end the rhythm will stop

When it does, then you'll drop

From happy wacky

The rhythm will stop

 

When it does, then you'll drop

From happy wacky dust

 

 

 

 

 

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