Black Napkins Instructions - Frank Zappa

Thank you

Okay.

Moving, moving right along now with the deviation, as promised,

from last night’s program.

.. What?.

.. Unfortunately, if I come up here I

can’t hear the drums, see?

So— Now, here, this is what I look like,

and with the guitar is like this.

So, we’re going to do another piece now that

the band has never played because it’s not written down, for one thing,

but it’s so simple minded that with a few cheap explanations we should be able

to do it.

Now.

.. No, no, not that.

.. Boy, do we have a surprise for you

Alright.

Hey, gang!

The changes for this song are C# minor for 2 bars,

D major 7 for 2 bars, and that’s it.

And it’s in ¾, and we’ll voice it out.

.. uh.

.. let’s see.

.. Oh, you guys just pick any voicing, it’s like a.

.. Let’s put a suspension on top with a C, uh, you can have a C#,

and a B and an F#, they’ll stay over both chords.

Only low register

instruments can play the note D when it changes to the D major 7,

and the low brass should be voiced out with bass trombone and tuba with a D on

the bottom, and then both of you guys play E, the 9th over that.

French horns the A in the middle.

Okay?

And then the trumpets uh.

.. C— C#, F# and B, and when it goes to the,

the C# minor chord, you guys stay on the same notes and you guys move.

..

ah-ah-ah.

.. D goes down to a C#, the A goes to a G# and the E stays where

it is.

Okay?

Alright.

So can we hear that just a little bit, you know?

Just it’s about— One,

two, three, one, two, three.

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Okay, right, that, that was just a demo.

Okay.

Similar voicing over here.

I’d like to have uh, both of you guys on baritone playing those, the root,

boring root progression, and uh, you stay on the alto.

You stay on the

sarrusophone, play the boring bottom end of it while everybody else grabbing

you the notes in between.

Three piccolos.

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Oh, you will admit it— Basically what’s gonna happen is I want to play more

guitar in the concert and the easiest way I could do it is just have a vamp

play like this.

So, here’s, here’s our little jam session for ya

And the, the conductor goes like this.

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