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Pianist Gene Rodgers plays a straight four-bar introduction before Hawkins swoops in, soloing for three minutes without playing a single note of the tune, gliding over the chord changes with such harmonic logic that he ends up inventing bebop.
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Pianist Gene Rodgers plays a straight four-bar introduction before Hawkins swoops in, soloing for three minutes without playing a single note of the tune, gliding over the chord changes with such harmonic logic that he ends up inventing bebop.
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Pianist Gene Rodgers plays a straight four-bar introduction before Hawkins swoops in, soloing for three minutes without playing a single note of the tune, gliding over the chord changes with such harmonic logic that he ends up inventing bebop.
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Many others yawn at his surface predictability; the incessant (indeed relentless) four-bar phrases, the drab orchestration and the stop-start, highly sectionalized quality -- as though one is walking down a hallway with various doors opening and closing, and different music coming from each.
Eschenbach, Tetzlaff, Bruckner: The fresh and less familiar faces of the NSO Robert Battey 2010
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The latter stuck mostly to Mr. Vald é s's approximation of what's known in New Orleans as "the big four," beat-wise, save for one four-bar passage of clave-based, 6/8 rhythm.
In Cuba, an 'Extended Family' Reunites Larry Blumenfeld 2010
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One night Richard Dashut assembled a twenty-second tape loop of this four-bar riff.
ɘloЯ 2010
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So my father had to write him a four-bar phrase - call a lawyer and - and if you listen to it, I will not sing it, it slides up to the correct note to come in on.
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So my father had to write him a four-bar phrase - call a lawyer and - and if you listen to it, I will not sing it, it slides up to the correct note to come in on.
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Mr. SIMPSON: "Kookaburra" is a four-bar song and over half of that song is used "Down Under," which is the test of law.
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The two songs are chord-and-note identical, except for a four-bar bridge added by Harrison.
Shepard Fairey sues AP before it sues him. Ann Althouse 2009
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