Playing the saxophone Rubber Soul - which songs?

[mrblackbat]

Thanks for listening! Yeah a real pianist will be a lot less mechanical with the montunos. Not just the same patterns over and over either!

It’s probably the IV7#11 chord that sounds unusual in Nowhere Man. Gives it a nice dirty bluesy sound to me.

I decided to stick with the same Cuban son feel for each as we won’t be playing them all together; so will have some unity in terms of the whole show (the album is being played in running order).

 

[Grumps]

In all fairness I’d love to hear your take on it. Like I said, I don’t hear it, but get something up and maybe i will.

Hey, I wanted to get back to this one as I'm playing in a group again. It's not going to be the bass/drums/sax trio I envisioned some time ago, but my old ska/reggae group is rehearsing again with a new drummer. We actually started working on If I Needed Someone, but of course not in the freeform sax/bass thing I was thinking of earlier in this thread, but a more mellow, reggae-ish take on it. Since the band does mostly originals, we generally do our own take on covers. That, or steal someone else's! But it's been fun and I'm hoping our take on this Beatles tune pans out. Will share if it ever gets recorded in some sharable form.

 

[Joe from New Orleans]

Norwegian Wood I’ve arranged before for Big band and sax orchestra. Would definitely work. Less sure about Drive My Car.

My Life, Michelle (even already in the real book), I’m Looking Through You and Girl I think all would work.

If I remember correctly Buddy Rich did a swingin' version of it.