Conference napalm::guitar

    Three basic steps:
    	1.) Listen to it (many times)
    	2.) Understand it
    	3.) Practice it
    
    Bodhisattva has a really cool solo in it. Skunk can play that bebop
    stuff ya know?
    
    		Have fun with it and DON'T GIVE UP!
    
    	
    Rock on,
    	Bebop Fred

    If you have a tape reco recorder that allows you to slow it down, try
    doing that. Lowing it down allows you to pick out all the notes
    and learn it at slow speed. As you practice it, you can speed it
    up faster and faster until your at full speed.
    
    Mark

    Listen to it until you can sing the solo, note for note.  I use
    commute time to-and-from work for this.  Then, play what you sing.
    
    If you have a reel-to-reel tape deck, record it at 7.5ips and play
    it back at 3.75ips...this will not only _severely_ slow it down,
    but keeps it in the same key.
    
    I find I learn little 'islands' of notes, which, with repetition,
    grow bigger until they start getting connected...eventually.
    Eventually can take a while ;^)
    
    Great solo...it really breathes!

    re: .0
    
    What are you having problems with?

    
	I'm *attempting* to learn the old SD tune "Black Friday" and
    I have 90% of the chords down, but there are a couple of chords
    I keep stumbling on.

	First of all, during the main parts of the verses, there is
    a chord being slid around, which centers on Em7. Can anyone tell
    me specifically what chord is being used, and where and how it's 
    fretted. They sound like the same chords used in another Dan tune,
    the one where they sing "I have never met Napolean, but I plan to
    find the time..."
    
	Basically the verses are all built around the Em7 chord, and
    when it get's to the bridge it jumps to A, from there is goes
    something like this

	     A	   G	  F#              G        D#m7   A/D   A/B
	When Black Friday comes I'm gonna stake my claim............
	I guess I'll change my name.
 
	I'm fine until I hit the D#m7 chord, then I lose it. The sheet
    music I have does not give the chord charts. My chord encyclopedia
    has many differant versions of the D#m7 chord, but none of them seem
    to work. My chord book does not show the A/D or A/B chord

	Steely Dan is probably my all-time favorite band, and one reason 
    is that their music is such a challenge. So much so that very few bands
    ever covered any of their stuff, even when they were at the peak of
    popularity in the '70's.
    
    	The SD tunes that I am familiar with playing include "With a gun",
    "Daddy don't live in NYC no more", and a few others, but the best SD
    tunes are tougheys to play, like "Kid Charlemagne", Boddhisatva, Black
    Friday, etc.
    
    	I read in interview in a magazine about a year or so ago with
    Walter Becker. In the interview Becker tells how each tune was
    recorded, who played the guitar solos, what type of instrument they
    used, and other very interesting details. I'll see if I can find the
    article this weekend. 
    
    	Have a great thanksgiving, everyone !!!!
    	Mark Jacques
    

    Try using F#/D# where your D#m7 lives...
    
    Edd

    
         I remember reading in Musician magazine *some* time ago
    during the first summer tour they did that there would be a
    live CD(s) release in the future.  Well, it's been quite a
    while since I scanned the article and I believe they've 
    completed another tour of the U.S. and working on a European
    tour as well.  Still, no live CD release as far as I know.
    Anyone with any relative info?
         Also, while I'm here, I happened to catch the first
    summer tour here in the northeast.  Did anyone see their guitar
    player, Drew Zingg (sp?)?  This man was a show on his own.
    A truly intense player to say the least.
    
    Kev --