Disco Inferno intro

[Paul S]

Hi All

This is doing my head in. I have played it and played it until even my cat can play it. But not me. I've got all the rest down ok - the verses, chorus, bridge - but that *&*%ing intro always sounds wrong to me.

My best so far is

DD
CC
A#A#
GG
FF
DD
C#C#
B... and into the verseC

Is that right? Sounds awful. Especially the last bit. Is this nature's way of telling me I need to learn to read music/tabs?

Why the hell couldn't they run down from C?!

Ta

[steve-soar]

Eb C# B G# F Eb C# C.
Marvelous.
[url="http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=-opY4qcidFk"]http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=-opY4qcidFk[/url]

Edited December 26, 2008 by steve-soar

[stonecoldbass]

I agree with steve, cracking tune. I especially like how the bass player misses the push into the first chorus....!

[tonybassplayer]

For some reason we have always played ( incorrectly I know ) GG FF EbEb D twice then played C

Technically wrong but sounds fine as we pull ( syncopate ?? ) to the G second time round

[Paul S]

Thanks Steve. Played on it's own it sounds even more wrong than mine but you are absolutely spot on.

Got to be the whole essence of disco in one tune.

[gafbass02]

I love this tune but have also never been able to nail the intro, I swear it's slightly out of tune! I'll try these suggestions out nice one!

[Tlbasss]

[quote name='stonecoldbass' post='363806' date='Dec 26 2008, 05:36 PM']I agree with steve, cracking tune. I especially like how the bass player misses the push into the first chorus....![/quote]

I have to learn this for gig and I keep wondering whether the pushes into the 1st and 2nd chorus were purposely missed or not. Was looking online to find the notation and found this thread!

[Kiwi]

Watch for the bridge too, kept catching me out a few times

[crez5150]

Or you could get the keyboards to play it ;o)
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[Tlbasss]

[quote name='Crazykiwi' post='1072037' date='Dec 29 2010, 07:25 PM']Watch for the bridge too, kept catching me out a few times [/quote]

.....and was that gap before the rundown on purpose too?

.....Am I turning into an anorak?

[Pete Academy]

[quote name='steve-soar' post='363788' date='Dec 26 2008, 05:05 PM']Eb C# B G# F Eb C# C.
Marvelous.
[url="http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=-opY4qcidFk"]http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=-opY4qcidFk[/url][/quote]

That's dead right.

[TimR]

The last three notes of the run down and the first note of the chorus (whatever they are) are played over the same single chord that the rest of the band plays.

This is why it will sound right when you play it to the recording, but not when you play it solo or if you play it with your band and they don't get that chord right.

Most of the guitar tabs on line don't have it right either, guitarists always seem to want to play the bass notes as well!

I did work out the chord about 5 years ago but can't help you with it now. sorry!

[terryblyth]

[TimR]

[quote name='terryblyth' post='1073008' date='Dec 30 2010, 07:03 PM'][/quote]

That's the one. I was wrong. The last three notes of the run down are the same and its the keys/guitars that are playing some strange inversions. I knew it was something odd. That brain cell is being used for something else nowadays.

[pietruszka]

I laughed when i saw this topic! A band I played this is once we're struggling to get it and then it clicked; Ab pentatonic starting on Eb.


Cracking tune. Are you using an envelope filter to get that squidgy sound?




Dan

[TimR]

If you don't read that's:

Eb Eb Db Db B B Ab Ab | F F Eb Eb Db Db Db C |