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The song is Louisiana Sunday afternoon by Diane shure, the chord in question is the first chord of a two chord section the next chord is Am7/11. each chord gets 2 measures and it repeats twice equaling 8 measures.
then it goes to a Gmin, Cmaj, Fmaj7, E with a sharp 9, Am7/11, D7
I am comfortable soloing over this section. it is the chord we have been talking about and the Am7/11 I am uncomfortable with.
I must point out the bass player is playing a Db over the chord in question, and an A over the Am7/11 I have been using an A#min pent over the chord in question and an Am pent over the Am7/11 it works but I want more to work with.
The solo is actualy played on the original recording by a sax, and the chords were found using my ear listening to the piano on the original recording.
I'm still looking for more alternatives to play over this first section because I still feel limited. scales, arps or modes to play while soloing? I notice the sax uses mostly notes in the chords, and when we have a piano player he will usually do the same thing. I am trying to avoid this aproach because I feel there are better options I'm not finding yet, we have recorded the song on our most recent CD and we hired a sax player to cover that solo, but live it is usualyly up to me. The end of the song is a vamp over the chorus Fmaj7,
E with a sharp 9, Am7/11 it does this 3 times and resolves to a D7 and there is a nifty chord change the keyboardist does, I'm not exactly sure what it is cause I was soloing over the ending vamp in the studio and we don't use this change live cause we are 3 piece + vocal live, and I haven't analized the change.
I have ripped the tune from our new CD and would be happy to send an MP3 of it to anyone that wants to hear the actual song we have been talking about here. I play a solo over the end vamp that I feel is some of my best work in the studio to date. If I had to compare my sound and style in the soloing I do over the ending vamp I would say it sounds reminisant of Steve Lukather of Toto.
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Again thanks for all the great info you guys have posted here! It helps!
