This is a bit different, but anyone seen King Ralph (the film – John Goodman in it). Anyway, I was listening to rock n roll Little Richard and landed on the song Good Golly Miss Molly. Great song. Then on youtube ‘good golly miss molly – John Goodman’ comes up and thought it would be interesting to watch (I haven’t seen King Ralph, but he is a great actor). There is a short wacky sax solo I really like the sound of in there (1min 15), anyone know who the saxophonist who played the solo is? I had a go at transcribing but failed miserably, my ear isn’t great and my fingers are too slow (especially with that weird run up and down he does on the sax) :(. Thought’d I just share this to see what you thought of it?
Not recognizing the player but he’s just playing the blues in G (A tenor)
you can play the G major pentatonic which he does but also uses the Bb a lot, which is the minor 3rd.
the intro lick for his solo for example is just a series of 5 notes played up and down over and over…sounds more complicated than it really is:
D E G A Bb then back down Bb A G E D
most every other lick of his solo stays with this scale G A Bb C D E F which is a natural G minor scale
this is played over a major key slo you have the option of a major or minor 3rd, he went for the minor
(I’m doing this on piano so remember to transpose it up a tone for your tenor)
That’s pretty hilarious! 🙂 It’s also very cool, have never seen that before. Thanks for sharing–sounds like you’ve gotten the blues bug Khanthebrit, I don’t blame you one bit either. Johnny’s ability to transpose by ear is amazing–takes years to get to that level.
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