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Our Spanish Love Song

Charlie Haden’s “Our Spanish Love Song”: the Spanish2 opening, the rest of the theme, and an original solo. Guitar and bass generated from string and body models. Hear the original recording ↗

← Bebop chorus · preserved unchanged

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

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The same opening theme and first four solo bars. Around 0:51 the guitarist starts taking the idea further. Same tempo, same form, same bass accompaniment.

A small melodic cell widens into arpeggios, three-note accents across the pulse, and brief triplet runs. Passing harmonic detours give way to a quieter return. An original Coltrane-inspired development within this acoustic duo’s sound.

Guitar melody and bass, with no added chord layer. The bass uses the gentler-ringing model. The opening guitar melody is unchanged. 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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