JimN wrote:The rhythm guitar part on The Warlord is something else.
I recall looking at the single-sheet published music in early 1966 and nearly fainting when I saw that the chord part included the unknown Bb11. Bert's book didn't do flattened elevenths.
JN
The answer is probably that Bruce played proper majors and minors and the horrible jazz chords were a figment of the imagination of whoever wrote the sheet music.
The Beatles were another example of this; an ageing jazz musician (oxymoron!) at Dick James Music would listen to an acetate and transcribe it using his jazz experience. It wasn't until a quarter of a century later that it was redone by someone a bit younger and more attuned to the Beatles style.
I also remember reading an interview with someone from a punk band (Clash I believe) who read the sheet music for one of his own songs and could'nt make head or tail of it! It was supposed to be a single chord all the way through, but every time the bass player hit a note that, strictly speaking, wasn't in that chord, the transposer put something weird in!
I've always found sheet music to bear little resemblance to what I can hear on record. Case in point is a collection of Cliff and the Shadows sheet music from about 1960, which i still have, imaginitively titled, "Cliff and the Shadows Album." Apache and Man of Mystery have to be seen to be believed!
