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Our Spanish Love Song

Charlie Haden’s “Our Spanish Love Song”: the approved theme and a new original singing solo. Guitar and bass generated from string and body models. Hear the original recording ↗

← Approved main melody · preserved unchanged

1 minute 28 seconds · Around 116 BPM · Four beats to a bar

A melody with room to breathe

The approved theme leads into a new original solo at 0:42. A falling question, a held reply, a few quicker turns, and space for the bass. The idea returns higher before settling back down.

The guitar, subtle vibrato, accompaniment and broad pacing stay in place. This first take focuses on the melody: longer singing notes and shorter answers that belong to the same conversation.

Guitar melody and bass, with no added chord layer. The bass uses the gentler-ringing model. The opening guitar pickup into B♭–C is corrected to A natural. The bass descent around the same passage is corrected to D♭–C–F. Guitar vibrato comes from small changes in the simulated string tension. No samples. No added chords. The solo is our composition over the tune’s changes, not a transcription of Pat Metheny’s performance.

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