Stevie Wonders Superstition

benmurray85

yeah i think guthrie is playing through phils rig but something was definitely bust. i seem to remember someone on the monkey lord forum who was at the gig chatting about it a while back?

Catthan

I do the Guthrie approach,, Single note funky riffs for the 1st verse and funky chords for the others so it builds up.

I play the riff after the chorus with some OD (the one GG tried to do and smth failed).

The chords in the 1st chorus (when you believe in things etc) are 7, 7b5, 7,7,7 (eg B7, C7b5 etc)

rest choruses is all 7s

RocknRollDave

One thing we do is on the final verse we strip it right back for the early part (i.e. before the brass comes in) - just a single note on the bass and little more than the bass drum keeping it tight but sparse, then a brief pause before all hell breaks loose with everything kicking back in.

Lev

I used to do it in my last band - guitar/bass/drums. I found that adding an octave down on the guitar riff really fills it out nicely. I think I used a little auto wah in parts too. We did it in E also and segued into Sex Machine - you can get a good 10-15mins of dancing out of those two. 

viz

plus 1 to the octave - gives it lots of punch

streethawk

Piece of piss. 

:-S

Jalapeno

Auto-Wah / Envelope Filter pedal FTW !!!!!!

Travisthedog

That is bloody incredible

FX_Munkee

I read this thread yesterday and had a crack at it last night.
Yep, I thought, I've got this.

Then you posted that....
<takes ball home/>

Kebabkid

I like Phil X's version and all the parts are there and it's the sort of thing I've done, even when there's been a keyboard player (doubling up). I've also used a Wah on the riff or autowah or played Prince-type funky chords on the verse.

close2u

benmurray85 said:

 i played the brass bits exactly the same with unison bends

Tell me about those unison bends ... I can't gett hem to sound just so

matt1973

All good versions but I've heard Stevie Wonder can play even this with his eyes shut.

close2u

I'm playing

 

12

15 bent to 17

 

10

13 bent up to 15

 

 

9

12 bent up to 14

 

x

12

 

 

9

12 bent up to 14

 

 

0

5

Tunez

V chord sextuplet is a 7#5 on original recording (harmony in horns with a Gb tpt. on top). I just mention it 'cause Im forever hearing a 7#9 when guitarists play it and it messes with my OCD.

nickp

I haven't listened to the clips yet but I saw a pub band do it where they fell between the Jeff Beck version and the Stevie Wonder version - it lacked proper rock and it didn't groove or funk either  - so to my ears it kinda just became not such a good song after all.  It sounded like they just decided to do it, jammed it and then played it to an audience.  

And I really like Mr Beck and Mr Wonder's versions.

So I guess to me it needs to be either one or the other to stand out...

cheers

nick

Gru

I am pretty sure Roy Fulton has some kind of tutorial on YouTube for this. If not him, possibly Justin Sandacoe, possibly both of them.

not_the_dj

close2u said:

benmurray85 said:

 i played the brass bits exactly the same with unison bends

Tell me about those unison bends ... I can't gett hem to sound just so

close2u said:

I'm playing

 

12

15 bent to 17

 

10

13 bent up to 15

 

 

9

12 bent up to 14

 

x

12

 

 

9

12 bent up to 14

 

 

0

5

Thread bump!
 @close2u @benmurray85

i was watching that Phil X clip again last night and trying to copy his unison bends for the brass part (that had always been missing from our version). 

are you guys playing it as written above?



 

Danny1969

I did a quick dep players guide to this song, arranged for one \ two guitars 

welshboyo

Guthrie at 3.02 onwards.....fuck me........

digitalscream

You're all wrong.



We played this at one of our launch gigs...there was this stunned silence when we started with the Metallica riff (female vocalist != Hetfield), then she came in and everybody got the joke.