00:00All right, Josh Smith back again. This month we're going to start talking about my song
00:08Brown Gatton. This tune is from my album Still, which was a jazzier album I did, and the title
00:15should tell you a few things about this tune. It's basically James Brown meets Danny Gatton.
00:20That's at least what I was thinking when I wrote it. So it's at its heart a James Brown
00:25shuffle like, you know, but mixed with Danny Gatton hybrid picking and ideas, and of course
00:35some interesting twists and turns. So the phrase of the song, the melody, the head of
00:40the song has a two beat bar, every third bar. So it goes like this, one, two, three.
01:04So what's happening there is, one, two, three, four. One, two. So it's turning itself around
01:17with a two beat bar after every third bar of the melody. This leads to some cool twists
01:24and turns, especially when you go through the change, because then the second time
01:28we do it, we modulate to C. So we go.
01:59So that adds a lot of kind of forward motion to the tune. When we hit those two beat bars,
02:07it kind of, the audience kind of feels something, because something different than the ordinary
02:11is happening, but it doesn't feel out of place because it's still in the same time signature.
02:17You're just dropping two beats and starting a phrase in a weird spot as far as what the
02:21ear is used to. And then when we get into the solo later, that makes for really great
02:27cool phrasing things, because you can have licks that cross the bar in a different way
02:31than you're used to and resolve in a weirder spot, and I love that. And that was kind of
02:36the Danny Gatton twist on the James Brown thing.
02:39Then we get to the bridge of the song, which goes to the four chord, and we're full on
02:43James Brown here, where I'm playing straight eighth notes.
02:57So we're basically chromatically moving around the four.
03:20With those stabs on the five chord, and then we're into the solo. So that's the meat and
03:24potatoes of this tune, Brown Gatton.
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