8 string Leavitt MP3 with Tab and Backing Track

Bill Hatcher · From: Atlanta Ga. USA

Instead of doing another involved 12 string extended Leavitt MP3, I decided to do a simple track that some of you can apply to your 8 string Leavitt tuned guitar. The tune is Antonio Carlos Jobims' beautiful bossa nova "Corcovado" or "Quiet Nights". Most of you will know this standard.

I am terrible at the tab thing, but I gave it my best shot so that you can see what I did. The only way I knew how to try to get it here was just take a JPG of it and post it here. You will see the DS repeat to the top and the coda. There is a link to the MP3 of the track and also a link to just the bass/drum track so you can play along. I hope that by doing a track like this that maybe someone can can work this out on your 8 string guitar. Let me know if this was of interest to anyone. Many thanks.

Tuning is low to high--G# C# E G Bb C D Eb

(Roy Thomson has been so kind to rewrite my hard to read tab and I will post it.)

The track with lap steel.

http://www.mediafire.com/download.php?dcdyezzhzmj

The backing bass/drums track.

http://www.mediafire.com/download.php?mmgn4aqzzqy

The guitar is my 8 string Wilcox.

David Phillips · From: San Francisco CA , USA

Hi Bill,
Thank you for sharing this beautiful rendition of Corcovado.
I learned it years ago from Warren Nunes on the guitar.
He would love what you are doing...
Makes me nostalgic, as well as with the Edith P
reference at the end.
I love where you are taking the Leavitt tuning, both inspiring and humbling.
I will be in Georgia the first week of June, are you performing anywhere I can hear and meet you.
Thanks again,
David Phillips

Roy Thomson · From: Wolfville, Nova Scotia,Canada

Tremendous talent!

Bill, there have been many positive
comments posted in regard to your
playing but you are still an "unsung
hero" in my opinion.

I am pleased that you are makeing
an attempt to communicate your
work to others as it would be next to
impossible to follow what you are
doing otherwise, especially with the
12 string set up.

I look forward to trying this arrangement
sometime in the near future.

Roy
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Bill Hatcher · From: Atlanta Ga. USA

Thank you so much Roy Thomson for creating this tab for all to use. Guys like Roy are what make this forum beneficial for all players!!

Play down to the DS AL CODA and then repeat to the top of the chart. Then play to the bar that says "To Coda" and then go to the double line and play the rest of the tab.

Thanks again Roy!!!!!

Michael Stover · From: Kansas City

This was great, Bill. It really opened up some new ideas on Leavitt for me.

I wonder if you could enlighten me: I'm looking at the chromatically descending minor thirds at the very end of the piece. It sounds like a typical jazz-type coda, but I'm trying to figure out the chord structure. It almost sounds like a descending ii-V thing with tritone substitutions, starting on A minor, but the notes don't quite match up. Could you tell me the progression you had in mind there? Whatever it is, sure sounds pretty.

Thanks again for posting--now I have a couple new tricks in my bag.

Bill Hatcher · From: Atlanta Ga. USA

Sorry I missed your post. Been out of town a few days and away from the computer. I thank you for your interest in the MP3.

Decending chords I would play if I were playing along would be

A-7b5 Ab- Bbsus4/G B7/F# F-7 EMaj7 Eb69

You would need to voice these in a manner that worked with the melody on top leaving them not so cluttered in the middle of the chord. Just thin them out a little.

Hope this answers your question.

Michael Stover · From: Kansas City

Thanks Bill. That's a big help.

Bill Hatcher · From: Atlanta Ga. USA

Your quite welcome. If anyone has any other questions, please ask.

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