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    SHMRF On Boots Randolph

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    The document analyzes Boots Randolph's song "Charlie Brown" and provides details about its musical elements. It notes that Randolph maintains a raspy saxophone sound throughout the song. The melody is fairly simple at first but becomes a call-and-response between Randolph and the guitarist. The rhythm is a constant double-time feel except for some simple hits at the beginning of the melody. The form of the song follows an AABa structure with repetitions of the melody and a bridge, which gives it similarities to a 12-bar blues.

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    The document analyzes Boots Randolph's song "Charlie Brown" and provides details about its musical elements. It notes that Randolph maintains a raspy saxophone sound throughout the song. The melody is fairly simple at first but becomes a call-and-response between Randolph and the guitarist. The rhythm is a constant double-time feel except for some simple hits at the beginning of the melody. The form of the song follows an AABa structure with repetitions of the melody and a bridge, which gives it similarities to a 12-bar blues.

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    The document analyzes Boots Randolph's song "Charlie Brown" and provides details about its musical elements. It notes that Randolph maintains a raspy saxophone sound throughout the song. The melody is fairly simple at first but becomes a call-and-response between Randolph and the guitarist. The rhythm is a constant double-time feel except for some simple hits at the beginning of the melody. The form of the song follows an AABa structure with repetitions of the melody and a bridge, which gives it similarities to a 12-bar blues.

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    SHMRF On Boots Randolph

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    Adam Walton
    The document analyzes Boots Randolph's song "Charlie Brown" and provides details about its musical elements. It notes that Randolph maintains a raspy saxophone sound throughout the song. The melody is fairly simple at first but becomes a call-and-response between Randolph and the guitarist. The rhythm is a constant double-time feel except for some simple hits at the beginning of the melody. The form of the song follows an AABa structure with repetitions of the melody and a bridge, which gives it similarities to a 12-bar blues.

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    Adam Walton

    SHMRF on Boots Randolph’s “Charlie Brown”

    I find Boots Randolph to be an interesting saxophone player. His type of music is not usually

    what I would listen to, although I still enjoy it. In his song “Charlie Brown,” I would consider the sound

    to be a bit raspy, or maybe even raw-ish. He maintains this sound throughout the entire song, if not

    even the whole album.

    There really isn’t a whole lot of harmony in this particular song, considering he is the only horn

    player. The only sort of harmony I could get out of this song is when the guitar player would play some

    fill-in riffs in-between breaks in the melody, if that would even be considered harmony at all.

    The melody in this song starts with Randolph playing a fairly simple melody. When the song

    goes into a consistent beat, he continues to play. The melody now consists of Randolph and the guitar

    player trading off, basically a call and response.

    The rhythm in this song stays constant throughout, basically a double-time feel. However,

    during the beginning of the melody, there are just some simple hits on every other beat. The feel goes

    into a double-time feel during the second part of the melody, when Randolph and the guitar player are

    trading off. Other than that, the rhythm in this song is fairly simple.

    The form of this song is similar to many, many songs we hear today. The melody is played twice

    through, and then it goes into a bridge. Then… guess what… the melody again! So this is basically and

    aaba form, just like much of the music we listen to today. Along with the chord changes, this could also

    be considered a 12-bar blues. The chord changes are similar, and there are 12 bars in the form! After

    the last time through the melody, there is a solo section however. After the solo section, Randolph goes

    back to the original melody to close out the song.

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