The Jazz Guitar Chord Dictionary
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    These days of summer and fall I have been diving into Wes more and more. Not that I never studied him or that he was one of the first players I ever listen to but just to get a meatier sense of his thinking. I finally decided to try and play this tune note for note. My transcription skills are not the best so I go with ears and what others have already done. It seems to me that of the places I have encountered and players everyone plays the head slight different. RIch Severson has it and another player Jim Ellis has another version. Then there is Matt Otten who I believe when he recorded it was using my Elferink before Frans sold it to me in 2006.

    There seems to be TAB of it but I hate tab being a pretty first rate reader. Does anyone know or have the transcription in actual notes or where it can be found. I could just go with my ear to completely learn it but I would rather do it faster, realizing the ear method probably would be better. I notice Wes was solo vertical in his approach and just worked triads and chord fragment runs into beauty. No hint of thinking in scales at least to me.

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    Well I manage to find one version of the note transcriptions. But would like to hear from others on this.

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    I used to play it with a friend of mine. Here’s the chart we used:

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    Sorry my OCD won’t let me keep from doing this…

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    Quote Originally Posted by Mark M.
    I used to play it with a friend of mine. Here’s the chart we used:

    Wes "Tear It Down"-3ab52a1a-15e1-40da-9d12-2ed72d5106a1-jpgWes "Tear It Down"-9d2e372f-5cae-4ac5-8b1e-6f11773ff05c-jpg
    Wow, nice copying, M,
    My biggest problem with writing scores is trying to read them a few days later. Great job! Marinero

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    "Tear It Down" is one of the transcriptions in the original Wes Montgomery Guitar Method (1968).

    DG

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    Great tune, was just working on it yesterday. Hard to get that thumb articulation with the upstroke on those descending arpeggios just into the solo, but anyone who claims Wes only used downstrokes was not listening!

    Never get tired of the magic of Montgomery.

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