From breynold@usc.edu Wed May 14 10:19:14 2003
Subject:Re: green onions

At 09:53 AM 5/14/2003 -0700, you wrote:
>Actually, doesn't the guitar play chords that are 4ths? When Booker is
>playing the F-F-Ab-Bb-F, the guitar hits a Bb chord.
Ah, yes. Now I remember that. Although I'd be willing to explore and/or
bet it is not a simple Bb chord. Not sitting at a keyboard, in my head I
hear a top note that is a G, and my first choice is that the guitar is
playing a F9th, and that you CAN hear the A note in that chord, so that,
unlike the organ parts, the guitar IS playing F major. But perhaps he is
playing a Bb6th or Bb13th, which does involve one 4th interval, and makes
no commitment to major or minor. I am quite sure, however, that the chord
has G as the highest note---I hear that 9th interval very strongly.

God, I wish my actual playing chops approached my ear.

Haley Joel Osment says to Bruce Willis: "I hear things I can't
play. Sometimes I don't even know that I can't play what I can hear."