Last post wins!!!!!

[perfect_pitch]

[j_tour]

OK, Goldilocks Man with the Golden Ear.

I admit I'm having trouble being 100% positive of every note played in the RH during this chromatic walk-up of chords starting from a Bbm(7, 9,13) and ending with a G13.

At time stamp 1m07s to 1m16s in the clip below.

I have a way to play it so it sounds reasonable, but I suspect I'm missing a few notes.

If you can give the definitive, p_p-approved spelling of each chord, then I declare you winner for....I dunno...a day or something.

You should totally do it to show off your admittedly awesome skills.

Plus, the highest form of winning is humbling a lazy musician with inferior discipline and ears.

[perfect_pitch]

Okay...

B flat 9th I suspect with G on top,
B7 but I think it has a D and G on top
C minor 7th with G on top
C#m 7th with a flattened 5th, G on top again
D7 with F sharp on top
Eb9 I suspect with D flat on top
E7 but with an F sharp as well, D on top
F7 with E flat on top
F#7 and I think there's a G sharp in there as well, E on top
G7 but there's an E flat in there, so god knows what you call that chord with an F on top.

Best guess - I'm lousy with actual chord symbols, that would be my best guess.

Now bow down at my awesome golden ear and don't bother me for a week.

Plus, the highest form of winning is humbling a lazy musician with inferior discipline and ears.

Take your muddy ears and listen to some Sxrxbjx.   

[j_tour]

Okay...

B flat 9th I suspect with G on top,
B7 but I think it has a D and G on top
C minor 7th with G on top
C#m 7th with a flattened 5th, G on top again
D7 with F sharp on top
Eb9 I suspect with D flat on top
E7 but with an F sharp as well, D on top
F7 with E flat on top
F#7 and I think there's a G sharp in there as well, E on top
G7 but there's an E flat in there, so god knows what you call that chord with an F on top.

Yeah, going by memory, I think I have:

Bbm7, 9,13 (G on top)  [bottom to top:  Ab, C, G]
B(something) [A, D, G] — I think I remember using that quartal voicing and thinking it sounded OK, but without comparing it to the recording.

Oh, my memory went out.  I don't think you have everything correct, though.  For example, the F9 seems to me the bog standard, from bottom up, A, Eb, G.  And the F#7, with the b9 (G) on top as well, is what I recall (so, just A#, E, G).

For the chord with E in the bass, I have just a regular E7#9, with the G on top, spelled G#, D, G in the RH.

I'd bet anything that last chord is *not* a G7+ chord, though....just a regular G13.  (F, B, E, G in RH). 

It's not so much the chords, but the way they're voiced on the electric organ that can be peculiar. 

In general, not specifically this tune.  Close voiced chords don't always sound that great, so a different "system" is needed than one would take on acoustic piano in the middle register.

But I'll have to pause it at each chord and find each note exactly.  Shouldn't be difficult:  these aren't, at first glance, anything other than well-known chords and voicings for keyboard instruments.

Now bow down at my awesome golden ear and don't bother me for a week.

No, I think I'll take a few moments and write the exact voicings out for your edification when I get around to it.  Might be a week, though.

Take your muddy ears and listen to some Sxrxbjx.   

No, I don't think I'll do that either.

I also want to write out the montuno Cedar Walton plays on Joe Henderson's tune "Caribbean Fire Dance."

Perhaps along the way you'll become enlightened as to how chords with upper extensions are typically communicated in writing.

I have full confidence you can follow along.   

No, I'm really not being snarky....you clearly have a very particular set of skills, that serve you well.  You might find it interesting to know the canonical, standard way to use shorthand notation in a kind of jazz-pop idiom for chords with altered extensions.  Anyway, it's not advanced theory, just some common simple conventions in notation.

Here, play with the short montuno on piano for a while.  It's been months that I've been meaning to listen to the record in front of a piano and just play it, but I kept putting it off.  No, the notes are pretty clear, I just failed to bother to play along with the recording.  First appears about 36 seconds in.  Very simple, but clever, hypnotic little figure on piano.

[perfect_pitch]

No, I'm really not being snarky....you clearly have a very particular set of skills, that serve you well.  You might find it interesting to know the canonical, standard way to use shorthand notation in a kind of jazz-pop idiom for chords with altered extensions.  Anyway, it's not advanced theory, just some common simple conventions in notation.

Meh... my arrangements are fully scored and I like it that way. To me it seems more precise. I'm slowly making my way through the various shorthand methods of writing chords. I'll eventually learn them I'm sure, but I think the reason I don't is because some of them get really messy.

Your standard Major and minor 7ths, 9ths - they're easy, but they can get out of hand quickly.

I mean, what would you call a chord say using the notes C, Eb, G, B, Db

I suspect it's a CmM7b9 (I could be wrong)...

CmM7b9 !!!

I mean - that just looks *** disgusting... just put the notes on the score and I'll be able to read them fine.

[j_tour]

I mean, what would you call a chord say using the notes C, Eb, G, B, Db

I suspect it's a CmM7b9 (I could be wrong)...

I mean - that just looks *** disgusting... just put the notes on the score and I'll be able to read them fine.

Well, it's also kind of a nasty sounding chord.  I'm just imagining with my inner ear how probably sounds, as well as what kind of role it might play in a harmonic context.

My first thought on seeing that enormity is to think, "OK, so what chord is the composer actually intending, since it sounds like hot garbage as a CmM7 chord!  A kind of heavily altered F7 chord, maybe.  Or, sure, an Eb13 chord!"

It doesn't work for me as a CmMaj7 chord, though.  The hypothetical "composer" probably was trying to superimpose a second-inversion Db+5 triad on top of a Cm triad, with the 11th of the Cm chord being implicit but unstated as the major third of the Db+ triad. 

Weird sound, anyway!

[perfect_pitch]

Well, it's also kind of a nasty sounding chord.  I'm just imagining with my inner ear how probably sounds, as well as what kind of role it might play in a harmonic context.

My first thought on seeing that enormity is to think, "OK, so what chord is the composer actually intending, since it sounds like hot garbage as a CmM7 chord!  A kind of heavily altered F7 chord, maybe.  Or, sure, an Eb13 chord!"

It doesn't work for me as a CmMaj7 chord, though.  The hypothetical "composer" probably was trying to superimpose a second-inversion Db+5 triad on top of a Cm triad, with the 11th of the Cm chord being implicit but unstated as the major third of the Db+ triad. 

[j_tour]

Whatever you say, indigo child!

Just relax, lie back, and ease into the likelihood that you shan't be winning this thread!  I'll be gentle, but firm.

[perfect_pitch]

Just relax, lie back, and ease into the likelihood that you shan't be winning this thread!  I'll be gentle, but firm.

[j_tour]

I'm coating this thread with my winning at this very moment.

[perfect_pitch]

Well... we all imagine having molten lead squirt out from our nether regions... don't we?

[j_tour]

Well... we all imagine having molten lead squirt out from our nether regions... don't we?

Yes.

That, or this:

[perfect_pitch]

Yes.

That, or this:

Is that your dream??? To stand around luxurious parties like some human water feature, pissing out peated scotch out of your willie???

[j_tour]

Is that your dream??? To stand around luxurious parties like some human water feature, pissing out peated scotch out of your willie???

Yes.

[perfect_pitch]

Well... clearly you need to consume copious amounts of whiskey until your urine turns into 100% whiskey.

DRINK, DAMNIT... DRINK!!!

CHUG, CHUG, CHUG!!!

If you start to feel dizzy and light-headed, it means your goal is getting closer and closer.

[lostinidlewonder]

Yes.

Know

[perfect_pitch]

Yes.

Know

Maybe sow?

[j_tour]

Maybe sow?

Ho.

[perfect_pitch]

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Let's try this and hope it works. I've already chosen the 12 threads I need to hide this, and if it doesn't work, we can at least see how long it lasts.

[j_tour]

Let's try this and hope it works. I've already chosen the 12 threads I need to hide this, and if it doesn't work, we can at least see how long it lasts.

No.

[perfect_pitch]

Let's try this and hope it works. I've already chosen the 12 threads I need to hide this, and if it doesn't work, we can at least see how long it lasts.

It was actually MORE of a giveaway that you did it, because I could see your name plastered on 12 different threads when I logged in this morning.

You fail. The end.

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Not so fast!

[perfect_pitch]

I've been on this thread since its inception over 10 years ago...

...you don't stand a chance.

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I think Nilsjohan may be the only person who can truly win at this game - but I'LL BE DAMNED TO LOSE...

I see perfect_pitch has gotten much more confident about this over time.

[j_tour]

I see perfect_pitch has gotten much more confident about this over time.

No he hasn't.

Is he a Blackbyrd?

See?  Not winning!

[perfect_pitch]

No he hasn't.

Oh, yes he has. He's feeling REALLY CONFIDENT!!!

[lostinidlewonder]

.. REALLY CONFIDENT!!!

So loud, why so loud, that's loud, not aloud, not allowed.

[j_tour]

So loud, why so loud, that's loud, not aloud, not allowed.

Oh.  A cunning linguist.  Admittedly, that's some nice homophony.

[perfect_pitch]

So loud, why so loud, that's loud, not aloud, not allowed.

If that's an example from your latest rap track, then you need more time to work on it.

That was pitiful.

[j_tour]

That was pitiful.

We got into the cab, the cab driver said
He recognized my girlie from the back of her head
He said a little something about tip to base
So I made him stop the cab to get out of the place

[lostinidlewonder]

That was pitiful.

Little pp I know when there is something impressive you need to try tell others it isn't.
Go have some yoghurt.

[perfect_pitch]

Yoghurt is over-rated... and sadly enough so is Catherine Tate in my opinion.

I've seen a number of her sketches, and they're kind of dead-pan. She did the same damn sketch with an egg that can't be opened because the egg slice fell on the floor.

[j_tour]

She did the same damn sketch with an egg that can't be opened because the egg slice fell on the floor.

You could write lyrics for a Wesley Willis tribute band, with sentences like that.

Keep going!  Keep the flow!

[perfect_pitch]

You could write lyrics for a Wesley Willis tribute band, with sentences like that.

Keep going!  Keep the flow!

1) I would never debase myself in writing such filth for someone like Wesley Willis or any resemblance of a tribute band...

2) I don't speak... spanish?

[lostinidlewonder]

Yoghurt is over-rated... and sadly enough so is Catherine Tate in my opinion.

Your opinion over-estimates its over-rating detection.

[perfect_pitch]

I'm one of the sanest people here... I don't accidentally bugger up my ability to embed objects [cough, cough BOB], and some of the darkest moments in this thread seem to stem from a lot of the dodgy and disturbing stuff you post on here, which I can only assume comes from years of mental derangement and sloughing through the putrid filth that is the shadiest parts of the internet.

[j_tour]

1) I would never debase myself in writing such filth for someone like Wesley Willis or any resemblance of a tribute band...

Give it time.  It'll happen.

We believe in you!

[perfect_pitch]

Give it time.  It'll happen.

We believe in you!

What are you talking about - you never believed in me.

That's not even remotely true - the goal of a waiter is to bring and serve food to you. If you're the one waiting for food, you can't possibly be the waiter. You can be a waitee... but not a waiter.

[j_tour]

You can be a waitee... but not a waiter.

Well, maybe you can't. 

I'm starting to think you only speak Strine, not the King's.   

[perfect_pitch]

Well, maybe you can't. 

I'm starting to think you only speak Strine, not the King's.   [/font]

And I'm starting to think you speak gibberish... especially since I have never heard a SINGLE Australian ever utter the word strine, or have anyone mention that word about Australians... in 30 years. 

And waitee is a perfectly acceptable word to use in the English vocabulary.

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So loud, why so loud, that's loud, not aloud, not allowed.

If people have to complain about this, look at my amazing lines:

So loud, why so loud, that's loud, not loud, not loud, too loud.
So loud so loud so loud. Loud. Loud. Loud loud loud loudl ldudljdo.
Not aloud. Why so loud. Not aloud. Not allowed. Allowe dl alwloewd wloaoleoowldowldlwoeld
not allowed not aloud not aloweid alod aod ododododoododododododododsodsodsodo.
ihuihugiuewagliugewwiuleiuheghilgeehuilgehebklzbkjglxsdnmkbx
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[lostinidlewonder]

I'm proud of you my son

[perfect_pitch]

If people have to complain about this, look at my amazing lines:

So loud, why so loud, that's loud, not loud, not loud, too loud.
So loud so loud so loud. Loud. Loud. Loud loud loud loudl ldudljdo.
Not aloud. Why so loud. Not aloud. Not allowed. Allowe dl alwloewd wloaoleoowldowldlwoeld
not allowed not aloud not aloweid alod aod ododododoododododododododsodsodsodo.
ihuihugiuewagliugewwiuleiuheghilgeehuilgehebklzbkjglxsdnmkbx
End.

See kids - this is why you stay away from drugs.

[j_tour]

See kids - this is why you stay away from drugs.

[perfect_pitch]

Did you know an anagram for Rehabilitations is: I hate Libations.

Kind of ironic.   

[j_tour]

Did you know an anagram for Rehabilitations is: I hate Libations.

Kind of ironic.   

Sure it is.

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Honestly, I wouldn't actually call this thread popular. It's just perfect_pitch, j_tour, and lostinidlewonder clamoring for one spot.

[perfect_pitch]

I think you mean J_Tour and lostinidlewonder clamouring for the spot for 2nd place.

We all know who is going to win this thread.      (Me) 

Also 15,648 replies??? I think its safe to say that this thread is popular.

Also, how is your 'second to last reply wins' thread going? Hey... you've got...

...5 replies. Only 15,643 replies more and it will be as popular as this one.

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Hey, popularity on that one wasn't the goal anyways. I mean, the less replies, the better. One might say I've won already...