super unambiguous four-quarter-note 4/4
To, you would think, anybody. Listen, my friend, I don't know who you are but thank you so much. You see, he's been stalking me the past week. Doesn't matter what you say, how much sense you would think it makes, it plain doesn't matter.
My feeling is he's looking for debate. Outlandish concepts. 3 + 3 + 2 on a pop tune from the 40's. Here's the killer, that bass line that hits on ONE and two AND three and FOUR and ONE is so blatant, how could you not hear that? I suppose if you spend all of your time historically researching music instead of sitting down & playing it.
The final go around he sent me a You Tube link to Lalo Schifren's "Theme From Mannix" , insisting it was to be considered jazz, I guess because he made a subjective, executive call & ruled "Jazz". However, a TV theme, written out, 100% pre conceived with, yes, a short 12 bar interlude where the pianist, don't want to say solos but, rather, plays about 3 riffs, nice but, the tune is a feakin' TV show theme. He doesn't see the difference between that & Monk??????? All jazz. One world.
I didn't even realize but he just now sent me, ready, "Theme From the Pink Panther" with the note, "How can you say this isn't jazz? The Pink Panther!!!!!!! What's next, It's a Small World? Before I run, the incredible irony is, scolding me about Lalo's jazz technique, as I previously said I was transcribing Jimmy Smith's solo from the Schifren "Theme From the Cat" when he insists, "I posted "The Cat" months ago I know that song extremely well".
Yeah, so well he wasn't able to feel that bass line that we both felt in our soul is definitely 4/4, in this one. Identical, same line except this Betty Paige thing is in E & "The Cat" is in F. Same identical line from a song he knows intimately. I can't notate on Reddit yet, but you'll get it.
1/4 note, 1/8th rest, 1/8th note tied to a 1/4 note, 1/4 note to next measure. Just saying the beats played ONE.........AND......4. One of the most common, overused bass patterns of the a past 75 years & he hears 3 + 3 + 2? So I can't thank you enough because he's become unbearable for me. I will not reply no matter how inane he sounds.
Wait until he asks you about the Egyptian instruments. Outta' here. Peace.