OT: Guitar Rhythm for "I Want You Back"

[Steve Freides]

There's an old Jackson 5 tune, "I Want You Back" that has a rhythmic
guitar part at the beginning and throughout.

A student of mine is playing this in his school jazz band but the
director told him the printed music is wrong - anyone have printed music
that's right?

There's a YouTube of this with the Jackson 5's first appearance on
American Bandstand in 1970 - wow, was Michael cute or what? Looks like
he was 8 or so years old.

Thanks in advance.

-S-

[Nil]

On 04 Apr 2013, "Steve Freides" <st...@kbnj.com> wrote in
alt.guitar.bass:

> There's an old Jackson 5 tune, "I Want You Back" that has a
> rhythmic guitar part at the beginning and throughout.

You mean that octaves thing in the right channel that goes on through
most of the song? It's very free, and the rhythm isn't constant. It
would be difficult to notate the whole accurately because it changes up
so much.

There's also a quieter guitar part on the left that's mixed way back
until the breakdown in the middle. I take it that's not the part you
mean, right?

> A student of mine is playing this in his school jazz band but the
> director told him the printed music is wrong - anyone have printed
> music that's right?

I would think it would be easier to just pick it off the record than to
try to read it. Easier done than said.

[Steve Freides]

Nil wrote:
> On 04 Apr 2013, "Steve Freides" <st...@kbnj.com> wrote in
> alt.guitar.bass:
>
>> There's an old Jackson 5 tune, "I Want You Back" that has a
>> rhythmic guitar part at the beginning and throughout.
>
> You mean that octaves thing in the right channel that goes on through
> most of the song? It's very free, and the rhythm isn't constant. It
> would be difficult to notate the whole accurately because it changes
> up so much.

That's what I said. The young man playing the part is actually a great
guitarist, and I told him what he was doing sounded great, but
apparently the director is on a kick - "Make it as close to the original
as possible in every way." Ugh.

> There's also a quieter guitar part on the left that's mixed way back
> until the breakdown in the middle. I take it that's not the part you
> mean, right?

No, it's that octaves thing.

>> A student of mine is playing this in his school jazz band but the
>> director told him the printed music is wrong - anyone have printed
>> music that's right?
>
> I would think it would be easier to just pick it off the record than
> to try to read it. Easier done than said.

Yeah, well, since I'm Mr. Music Reader :) I figured that if it was
written down anywhere, I could just show my student how it goes. As
things stand now, one of us will probably take it off the record. <sigh>

-S-