Key signature: Gmajor
Submitted on August 13th 2004 by Q.
This tune has been added to 102 tunebooks.
Recordings of a tune by this name:
X: 1
T: James Brown's March
M: 4/4
L: 1/8
R: reel
K: Gmaj
~D3E GAB2-|Bged e/g/e/d/ Bd/B/|~A3B deg2-|gbag e4|
~D3E GAB2-|B g2 e/d/ d/e/e/d/ Bd/B/|~A3B deg2-|g b2 a/g/ e3 f|
|:g/e/d/B/ Ag/e/ d/B/A z G-|G/A/B/A/ ~B>A ~GE E2| g/e/d/B/ cg/e/ d/B/c z g-|ga b/a/g e4:|
Mike McGoldrick's Fused version
After a good 2 hours battling with micro-dots, this is as close as I could get to a decent transcription of the first time round Mike plays it on track 3 of Fused... and now my brain hurts.
I haven't a clue what a non-jazzy or 'straight' version of Jimmy Brown's should sound like, otherwise I'd have notated that instead, but this is a start anyways. Enjoy.
# Posted on August 13th 2004 by Q
Jazzy Funkiness
Dotted, jazzy, "non-straight" rhythms: that's the whole point of it being dedicated to the one and only Godfather of Soul!!! (and here I was stretching to hear some connection between the pretty flute tune on the CD and Mr. Please Please Please Himself...)
# Posted on September 8th 2004 by JHowley
Wrong Key listed
btw, should be key of Gmaj, not Dmixo. it's hard to sound more major than that!
# Posted on September 8th 2004 by JHowley
Oh. That James Brown!
Doh!
the fog has lifted
# Posted on September 25th 2004 by Q
It's a good transcription. After I got the hang of it on my flute I took it for a spin on the CD and its pretty good. The tune plays as written so I think its pretty good. It's a pretty sweet tune to improvise on as well. Good job!
# Posted on December 4th 2006 by Jeffery
Correction
By the way, this is indeed a D mixolydian scale, which surprisingly enough sounds major. Notice the C NATURAL in the song... Mixolydians sound almost major but sound funny/cool because of the whole tone between 7 & 8. You could swear the song is D major anyways because of the fact there is only 1 C natural played in the whole tune, which is used to lead up to the second part.
# Posted on December 31st 2006 by Jeffery
Upside Down
I think the version recorded by McGoldrick, Shannon, Murray & Donnelly is in Ebmaj. It's great in that key. I might see if I can put a transcription together.
Nathan
# Posted on January 18th 2007 by Brown Creeper
Good transcription and a great tune. Took me a while too get the hang of the semi quavers but we got there in the end.
# Posted on February 12th 2007 by Irishmancunian
This is definitely a bit of an odd tune rhythmically, but I guess the thing with James Brown makes sense... Great tune, though, I think.
This is where I first heard this tune:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=57s25Oe4VZU
# Posted on December 1st 2008 by JosephC
This is how I play the tune, and how it seems to be in the video:
I edited a few bits of the abc's:
T: James Brown's March
K: Gmaj
|D3E GAB2-|Bged e/g/e/d/ Bd/B/|A3B deg2-|gbag e2ed/B/|
|D3E GAB2-|Bged e/g/e/d/ Bd/B/|A3B deg2-|gbag d/e/g/e/d2||
|g/e/d/B/ Ag/e/ d/B/A z G-|G/A/B/A/ B>A GE E2| g/e/d/B/ cg/e/ d/B/c z g-|ga b/a/g d/e/g/e/d2|
|g/e/d/B/ Ag/e/ d/B/A z G-|G/A/B/A/ B>A GE E2| g/e/d/B/ cg/e/ d/B/c z g-|ga b/a/g e2ed/B/||
# Posted on January 31st 2009 by JosephC