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Topic: Nervous Breakdown solo by Paul Franklin
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Tim Tweedale
Member From: Vancouver, B.C., Canada
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posted 10 May 2006 01:13 AM
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Has anyone tabbed out the solo Paul Franklin did on Jerry Reed's Nervous Breakdown? If no one else has, I'll do it. -Tim |
Larry Bell
Member From: Englewood, Florida
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posted 10 May 2006 04:33 AM
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Good luck, Tim
It's a LOT of work
I use a bunch of ideas from that solo but, since I never could get a band I was playing with to use the tune as a break tune, I never bothered to learn the whole thing.If you can do it in less than 8 hours YOU'RE A WIZARD.  There are some great ideas but it's important to get the positions and fingerings right or you'll never get it up to tempo. If it's not REAL EASY to play slow you'll never get it up to concert speed. Good luck my friend.
(and, yes, Paul Franklin DID play that solo)
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Tim Tweedale
Member From: Vancouver, B.C., Canada
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posted 10 May 2006 11:29 AM
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Heh. Thanks, Larry. I'll time myself on it and see if I am a wizard. I agree wholeheartedly with your advice to find the exact fingering. To me that's always the most important part of working out a tab (next to getting the right notes & rhythms). You can always tell when you get there too, because you can almost "see" the lightbulb going on. "Ahh! That wasn't so hard after all!" Yeah... the solo is 42 bars long and it's all 16th notes, so 42 x 16 = 672 notes to tab out, give or take. An afternoon well spent! I guess I'm on a pretty big Paul Franklin kick right now. I love his use of the whole-tone scale (I think that's the one I'm hearing) and his licks which go really outside, then back in. Then also the aspect of his playing which takes a lick and turns it eight ways from Sunday before setting it loose; he's a real master of theme and variation. I'm looking forward to taking this on. -Tim[This message was edited by Tim Tweedale on 10 May 2006 at 11:30 AM.] |
Charles Turpin
Member From: Mexico, Missouri, USA
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posted 14 May 2006 06:22 PM
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Tim if you get that one done send me a copy please. Thanks.------------------
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Mark Switzer
Member From: Norwalk, California, USA
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posted 15 May 2006 02:31 PM
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Tim I have a rough tab of this somewhere that I can send you. I took it from a tape I have of Paul talking through the solo that I got from Scotty`s. You might see if its still available. |
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