Pick Up the Pieces - Average White Band video free download

David S

Nicely done, my man, nicely done :o)  :o)  Do you know where I can find the tabs? 

Jam !t

I used to play F7#9 instead of Fm7 .. may be wrong but it sounds great

james regenold

could you list the chords or give a link to some or something? im reallynew to funk/jazz and am just awful at learning chords.

Adrien Gulliver

It would prob be a good vid, I cant see it cause it isnt available to my country. Oh, well...

tomthefunky

I'd say the advantages of playing it the way I showed it and the way privatetricker plays it, is that those inversions are probably the two most common min7 voicings in disco/funk. There's nothing wrong at all with the chord you play, but in my experience (twenty years playing funk) that voicing you play just isn't as common as the other two in funk vamps. Now, the chord privatetricker is playing, I wouldn't recommend playing so high up the neck. But it's a great funk chord in lower registers.

theexisireland

Sorry I meant "x-x-x-5-4-4". Thanks for the clarification, it was the higher inversion that wasn't sounding right to me compared to the original with the top note being a C. I'm trying to learn guitar at the moment, been playing keyboards for years. What would be the advantage to using x-x-10-8-9-x vs my simple top 3 strings version, and what would the shape be for that?

tomthefunky

No,the verse groove is actually x-x-10-8-9-x. He's playing it right. (Fmin7). He's just playing a different inversion 10-x-10-10-10-x. And he's not clashing with the horn line because the sax's are an octave lower. I have the sheet music and the horn lines are actually transcribed for guitar. The main horn lick is Dorian and the lowest notes of the scale are played. Also, the chord you showed is wrong. Your chord is an Fminor. The actual chord is an Fminor7.

theexisireland

Also the verse groove is too high up the neck, more like x-x-x-5-6-4, you're clashing with the sax range.

Fishpigg

WHY? you need to get out more often

GamerguideJ

@privettricker You've got the groove going through you :D Nice Job!!! AWB would be proud

tomthefunky

That intro chord should be x-x-10-9-11-11. It's a C7#9.

privettricker

@dtreeguy It's a lot more boring to pretend to be the guitarist in AWB! :)

dtreeguy

Man, it must have been boring to be the guitarist in AWB!

BAppleJuice

@privettricker I agree, but the video focuses on the guitar, and when I first watched it, I was waiting for chord changes. I guess what I'm getting at is the video should have been an instructional instead of a playthrough. Also, this isn't a huge deal, and don't think I'm getting down on your videos - which are great. Just sharing my thoughts.

privettricker

@daregularperson It's the groove that matters, not the number of chords. Tomorrow Never Knows only has one chord because it doesn't need any more than that. I think this one has just the right number!

BAppleJuice

There were too many chords on this one, I couldn't keep up. I counted four. Good playing though, although it would have been quite a dirge to watch the whole thing.

detect7

obviously I meant great job not greta job. One beer to many after rugby today

detect7

Nice to see you get funky. AWB from Scotland. greta job,very helpful for when I try to play it (very badly)

Rogiercover

Super nice played! (:

riffman1218

Nice! Great tune!

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