Learning solos of recordings is a crucial part of developing ones own musical vocabulary,, tone and above all musicianship. The song’s main riff is sampled in the song “Why’s Everybody Always Pickin’ on Me?” by Bloodhound Gang, released in 1996. In 1968, the vocal version of the song reached #3 in the U.S. Its best-known version was created by The Classics IV when guitarist James Cobb and producer Buddy Buie added lyrics centering on a “spooky little girl”. ‘Spooky’ was originally an instrumental song performed by saxophonist Mike Sharpe (Shapiro), written by Shapiro and Harry Middlebrooks, Jr., which first charted in 1967 hitting #57 on the US pop charts. This course is an ideal starting point if you’ve never transcribed or learnt a solo before. The solo itself is only 20 seconds long and is based around a blues scale. Spookys Jump Scare Mansion > General Discussions > Topic Details.

In this course we are going to transcribe the sax solo from the Dusty Springfield recording of ‘Spooky’. There is a option to change it to windowed mode In-game -> Skip story -> Go to Options -> General -> Find the thing that says 'Fullscreen' -> Change it to Windowed.

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