Maceo Parker – Splashin’ (Part 2 of 2)

Continuing from part 1 last week, here is part 2…

The trickiest part of this solo is the rhythm. It’s very syncopated. The bank half of the track is a long blow: Two full choruses of the form followed by twenty four bars of a single chord ‘breakdown’, then three more choruses of the form to finish out the track.

One interesting thing that I noticed is that there are a bunch of places where Maceo plays two notes with one using an alternate fingering. This by itself is not unusual – lots of people use this technique (including Maceo). The thing that’s interesting to me about this is that in this solo, it sounds like he’s using the alternate fingering on the first note of the grouping, and not the second note, which is what he (and other players) would more commonly do. Maybe he was just in a certain mood when he recorded this.

For convenience, the PDF is for the entire track, but the video below is for the second solo in the track, starting at the top of page 3.

• Artist: Maceo Parker
• Album: Southern Exposure (1994)
• Track: Splashin’
• Instrument: Alto Sax

Enjoy!
@SDartSax