Thanks for the excellent tutorial! I have been trying to play this since 1980 when a guy working in a music store in Calgary showed me the opening chords. I've been doing a decent rendition of it but only by playing octaves in the bass rather than using a walking bas which you demonstrate here. I've never played it with a band filling in the bass and rhythm, so I find your technique very helpful for a solo player.
Thanks very much for your kind words!! I'm hoping that these tutorials will help others play better, with concepts that have helped me, as well as some best practices and possibilities for your own creativity.
Nice interpretation & techniques, though the original doesn't really do any of those left hand runs on piano (that I hear) and the song tempo is really very quick to easily be able to play all that for duration of the whole song. I want to hear someone break down the solo parts as close to the original as possible .. maybe you will upload that next? Thx..great tune!
Hello there, and thanks for your feedback! I'm designing these tutorials not as a note-for-note transcription, but more of my interpretation of what can work within the context of the song. For transcribing solos, I highly recommend the app CAPO, which will slow down the song, tell you what chords are happening, and you can also loop certain measures and practice along with them over and over again. You can practice at a quarter of the original speed or even DOUBLE the original speed once you get really good at it.
Thanks for the excellent tutorial! I have been trying to play this since 1980 when a guy working in a music store in Calgary showed me the opening chords. I've been doing a decent rendition of it but only by playing octaves in the bass rather than using a walking bas which you demonstrate here. I've never played it with a band filling in the bass and rhythm, so I find your technique very helpful for a solo player.
Thanks very much for your kind words!! I'm hoping that these tutorials will help others play better, with concepts that have helped me, as well as some best practices and possibilities for your own creativity.
Nice interpretation & techniques, though the original doesn't really do any of those left hand runs on piano (that I hear) and the song tempo is really very quick to easily be able to play all that for duration of the whole song. I want to hear someone break down the solo parts as close to the original as possible .. maybe you will upload that next? Thx..great tune!
Hello there, and thanks for your feedback! I'm designing these tutorials not as a note-for-note transcription, but more of my interpretation of what can work within the context of the song. For transcribing solos, I highly recommend the app CAPO, which will slow down the song, tell you what chords are happening, and you can also loop certain measures and practice along with them over and over again. You can practice at a quarter of the original speed or even DOUBLE the original speed once you get really good at it.