Sharon O' Neil - Maxine

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Sharon O' Neil - Maxine

Post by foal30 »

what great song this is!

here is an example of a tune that modulates, in this instance up a semitone

Intro & Verse /:Dm / Dm / Dm /Dm / Cm / Cm / Dm / Dm:/

Chorus /: Gm / Bbmaj / Gm / Dm :/

sax solo/bridge
16 bars
Bb / Bb / F / F / Bb / Bb / Eb?/Eb?/Bb / Bb/ F / F / Bb / Bb / F? / F??

then up a semitone to finish
Ebm / Eb m / Ebm / Ebm / Db m / Db m/ Eb m / Eb m /
last chorus Ab / B / Ab / Eb / repeat

some good phrases to cop in this song
fretless bass for the win
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Blast from the past!

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i love this fucking song
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As for the Vid, IMHO, the guy played the notes but had none of LC vibe or finesse...

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I've played it on bass, and I hate it. Its dreadful. Really.
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To me it's always been the pop equivalent of Jolene (by Dolly Parton)
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I like it.. I get a kick out of doing the BVs
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NZRS-Dave wrote:To me it's always been the pop equivalent of Jolene (by Dolly Parton)
a big plus one.... thankfully I've been here less than a decade so didn't have to put up with it for so long...

If I'd had to play it since the 80's, I'd be swinging by my neck from the 'Why does love do this to me' tree, right about now.
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rocklander wrote:I like it.. I get a kick out of doing the BVs
yes, but you're weird. You're now in the cool 80's computer club with foal and capt abaham, yay for the speccy! Boo to girls!
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but we all know it's cooler to be a h8r
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rocklander wrote:but we all know it's cooler to be a h8r
yeah, you like science fantasy too eh... play chess at all?
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now see what trying to learn theory does :roll: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol:
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BG - +1 and lol for anti-Maxine sentiment. :)
-1 for anti-Speccy comment. :(
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RUDENBARK wrote:BG - +1 and lol for anti-Maxine sentiment. :)
-1 for anti-Speccy comment. :(
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It came out at a time (early '80s) when other good Kiwi songs were a tad thin on the ground. IMO, Sharon was a good songwriter, with considerable sex appeal (which somehow detracted from her musical ability for some folk). I think Maxine was her best song and I enjoyed playing it, even though its been some time since I did. Like all songs, if you cover it you can inject something of yourself into it, or play it karaoke style. I found the bassline to be cool, since I paid only scant attention to the recorded version and used my own lines which tbh differed almost every time I played it, especially if I was playing a fretless at the time.
He hit a chord that rocked the spinet and disappeared into the infinite ...

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Rog wrote:used my own lines which tbh differed almost every time I played it, especially if I was playing a fretless at the time.
once is a error twice is jazz a Rog :lol: :lol:
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