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Skip to 3 minutes 48 in this Youtube video, one of my favourite recent covers of that kind of music, I'm Your Puppet:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sMQB1-VUmDM
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- get something to substitute for the horns/strings, probably keyboards. I think this can sound horrendously cheesey using parpy keyboard horn sounds but some folks are fine with it. Doing the same thing but without the fake sounds (eg a straightforward organ tone)can work and be a bit less cheesey.
- ignore the horns/ strings and just play it as it is. Sometimes this will work fine, sometimes it’ll be crap.
- cleverly work up a new arrangement of the song. Probably the ideal solution but takes the most work and you run into the risk of playing something the audience won’t recognise/ like.
Whereabouts are you based? I like Motown so this did an interesting project
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so far, we're based in east and south east london (probably going to rehearse somewhere south east). We've got a guitarist/singer (me) and bassist/singer. So looking for hammond organ (and hopefully 3rd vocalist) and drummer. If anyone knows anyone.
Play the song with passion and everybody gets a harmony line even if the double up.
I did 16 years in a big soul band, some of our best performances were numbers done as a 4 piece.
You can sub horn lines on guitar, vocals or keys, nothing wrong with some do-wop do be do cha cha choo strategically placed in the arrangement.
I keep an eye out for opportunities in good soul bands because I like that buzz.
I have covered Stax and Motown numbers in a guitar-bass-drums 3-piece. Part of making that work is getting character and amount of overdrive right for a ‘big’ sound.
Anyway, add an organ to that and you’re laughing.
Speaking from experience (I run a wedding band which plays with and without horn section) - nothing can replace a horn section! We miss them when we're on 5 piece gigs! If a horn section isn't possible, then even one sax makes a huge difference to the sound.
Been uploading old tracks I recorded ages ago and hopefully some new noodles here.
If you know how to hold back and how to accent it's ultimately just music.