Chords for Playing with Cannonball Adderley - Hal Galper

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_ [Gm] _ _ _ [Db] One of the best gigs I ever had in my life.
_ _ _ _ [Bb] Mainly, well first of all, great guys, never
told me how to play, _ _ _ [Fm] _ [Gm] had a lot of belief in me, [Eb] and [C] it _ [Ab] was the strongest rhythm [D] section
I'd ever played [Dm] with in my life.
And it was [Eb] also my last experience with playing what
we [F] call the big beat.
_ [D] There aren't any [Eb] big beat bands left.
_ [Bbm] And [G] _ [Cm] it took me [E] a year, that
rhythm section was the [Cm] strongest rhythm section I'd ever played with in my life.
Roy McCurdy
on drums and Walter Pocorante.
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_ _ _ _ [Dm] [Eb] Hard to describe, but _ generally the beat [E] today has been learned
by younger [D] musicians through recordings.
And recordings tend to thin out [Fm] the [C] rhythmic
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_ feeling _ _ [Gb] of the music.
_ The big [E] beat was kind of [Eb] developed from the big band _ [C] dance hall
[F] days, where the rhythm sections really had [D] to put down a big [Bb] beat to influence the dancers.
_ And the beat was so [G] broad, so wide, _ _ [D] it [Bb] took me, _ [C] _ _ [D] you have [F] to understand, we were on the
[D] road six [Db] nights a week.
And it took me a year of 50 weeks, six [C] nights a week, to be [Bb] able
to develop my own [Eb] beat as large [Cm] as cannons and gnats and the rest of the [E] band.
[Dbm] It was
so big and it [Ab] was _ [F] stunning the way they would play their [C] ensembles.
They would always play
their ensembles exactly [Eb] together at exactly the same place on the beat all the time.
[Ab] But
it wasn't a [Ebm] metrical subdivision, it wasn't anything you could [F] figure out, you [G] could only
feel it [C] and it took me a year [D] just to be able [Gb] to feel exactly where in that spectrum
of top to the [Fm] bottom of the beat, [D] where they were playing.
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It was a unique experience. _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ [Cm] One of the most capable.
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[C] _ Very [Eb] free.
_ _ At [Gm] least he was when I played with him.
[A] _ [D] Because the
music I wrote was a [F] little freer than they usually had. _
[A] I even have some CDs [Db] at home
of [Cm] him playing Coltrane type [Eb] intervallic lines, which he did [Gbm] beautifully.
[B] It's hardly ever
[Gb] been recorded.
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[Bb] I loved following him.
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_ [A] _ Accompaniment wise, [D] it was just a lot of [C] fun.
Even when
I hear him now, I hear him on record and I realize [Gm] how [D] close I was _ musically with him.
[Gb] I still [Bb] miss it, that [Fm] relationship.
He could play [Eb] anything, anywhere.
_ He could make up
his own changes [F] over the original ones and make it work.
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_ He was just a phenomenal musician
and a great person. _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ Gentle, _ [Dm] generous, _
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[Cm] _ _ had a lot of [E] understanding and a lot of patience
to put up with me for a year, with my playing for a year. _ _
_ _ [Db] What can I tell you?
[A] He [Abm] _ _ knew [Bb] so
much.
I remember one night _ [Eb] I got lost on a song and later that night we were in Walter
Booker's room and Cannon came in [Ebm] and gave a half hour dissertation _
[G] on [E] getting lost.
_ [D] Unfortunately it was at the end of a gig after a [Gb] gig and it wasn't in the best [F] _ frame of [Ab] mind
to remember [Eb] everything.
But it was on the logistics of getting lost and how you solve
different problems about getting messed up in [C] a band at the [Eb] moment that's happening on
the bandstand.
_ I'll never [C] forget his piece of [Bb] advice.
He said, everybody gets lost from
time to time.
[G] The problem is not [E]
that [Bb] you got lost, the problem is how long you're lost
for.
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Which means get unlost real [Eb] quick.
And then he gave a whole series of techniques
of what to [C] do if you're lost and the drummer and the [B] bass player don't know it.
[Bb] Or _ you're
lost and you don't know it and the [D] drummer and the bass player [Eb] does.
And all the different
responses [D] and the way, it was just a fabulous dissertation.
I don't remember all of it,
I [Ab] remember some of it.
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