Llama Isolated

[Jkendrick]

I was inspired by the recent heroic Arizona Llamas to study some of what Trey does in Llama. While I'm not focused on the studio version very much, I did come across these videos (there are tracks for drums, bass, keys, and vocals as well). I assume this was done from the Rock Band version, so I doubt there are other tunes out there. Still cool to listen closely to what each band member is doing.

http://youtu.be/TSs36CWklFE

[Jkendrick]

Question for those of you with deeper theory knowledge than me, would the riff from about 2:02-2:06 be considered a tritone riff?it seems to chromatically walk up to the V, then chromatically walk up the root, then the root an octave lower and resolve to the flat V. That's the tritone right? Am I hearing that correctly and if so am I interpreting the theory correctly?

[Lephty]

Yep JK I think you're spot-on about that lick...the tritone is a good go-to note if you're looking to take it somewhere on the darker/weirder side.

Something that kind of struck me when I heard this track is that the F chord toward the end of the progression sounds like a maj7 (at about :28). Wouldn't have expected to see a maj7 chord in Llama.

[Jkendrick]

I got Em7/A9/Em7/F#m7/FMaj7/Em7. Is that what you got? I ran through it quickly today actually.  I was only able to spend about 45 minutes on it so this is rough, but no overdubs. I'd like to spend some time learning the rhythm Trey is doing during Page's solo. That's the most interesting part to me.


https://soundcloud.com/jim-kendrick/llama

P.S. I totally copped that tritone lick.