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Average White Band-Pick Up The Pieces - BPM - 109

Drums

Intro No drums - 4
Riff A x 14 bars - sax comes in straightaway unlike later
3rd sax line varies, no sax last one
Riff A x 14 bars

Fill into
Riff B x 4 (5 bars) - drums stop

Riff A x 14 sax comes in after 2 bars
Riff B x 4 (5 bars - hold note over spoken)

Spoken pick up x 4 starts straight on that 5th bar

Sax solo x 12
Key change x 4

Riff A x 4 sax straight in
Riff B x 9

Spoken pick up x 4 with drum fills

Riff A x 1 to end

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Bee Gees-Staying Alive - BPM - 109

 [LICK]
  Em(7) - try to ring top 3 open strings as well to make riff as full as possible
  1 + 2 + 3 + 4 +  1 + 2 + 3 + 4 +  1 + 2 + 3 + 4 +  
e|---0------------|---0------------|0---------------|
B|---0------------|---0------------|2---------------|
G|---0------------|---0------------|2---------------|
D|---5------------|---x--------5-7-|2---------------|
A|5h7---5--------5|---5----5-7-----|0---------------|
E|----------7-5h7-|5h7--5h7--------|----------------|
 
[Intro]
[Em] [Em] [A] [A]
[Em]
 
[Verse 1 - SING OCTAVE DOWN - ALMOST TALK]
Well, you can  [Em] tell by the way I use my walk
I'm a  [D] woman's man, no  [Em] time to talk
[Em] Music loud and women warm
I've been  [D] kicked around since  [Em] I was born
 
[Pre-Chorus]
But now it's  [A] all right, that's okay
[A] You may look the other way
[A] We can try to understand
The  [A] New York Times' effect on man
 
[Chorus]
[Em] Whether you're a brother or whether you're a mother
You're  [Em] stayin' alive, stayin' alive
[Em] Feel the city breakin' and everybody shakin'
I'm a- [Em] stayin' alive, stayin' alive
[Em] Ah, ah, ah, ah,  [Em] stayin' alive, stayin' alive
[Em] Ah, ah, ah, ah,  [Em] (HARD FALSETTO)stayin' a 
[Em] li    [D] i     (head voice) [Em] i   [Bm7] ive
                (break)
Oh, when you  [Em] walk
 
[Verse 2]
Well, now  [Em] I get low and I get high
And if I  [D] can't get either, I  [Em] really try
Got the  [Em] wings of heaven on my shoes
I'm a  [D] dancin' man, and I  [Em] just can't lose
 
[Pre-Chorus]
You know, it's  [A] all right, it's okay
I'll  [A] live to see another day
[A] We can try to understand
The  [A] New York Times' effect on man
 
[Chorus]
[Em] Whether you're a brother or whether you're a mother
You're  [Em] stayin' alive, stayin' alive
[Em] Feel the city breakin' and everybody shakin'
I'm a- [Em] stayin' alive, stayin' alive
[Em] Ah, ah, ah, ah,  [Em] stayin' alive, stayin' alive
[Em] Ah, ah, ah, ah,  [Em] stayin' a 
[Em] li    [D] i     [Em] i   [Bm7] ive
                (break)
Oooooh [Em]   
 
[Middle 8] - A run Asus2 A A7 A6(x02222)
[A]  Life goin' nowhere, somebody help me
Somebody help me, yeah [Em]    
[A]  Life goin' nowhere, somebody help me, yeah
   [A]  I'm stayin'  [Em] alive
 
[Verse 3]
Well, you  [Em] can tell by the way I use my walk
I'm a  [D] woman's man, no  [Em] time to talk
[Em] Music loud and women warm
I've been  [D] kicked around since  [Em] I was born
 
[Pre-Chorus]
But now it's  [A] all right, that's okay
[A] You may look the other way
[A] We can try to understand
The  [A] New York Times' effect on man
 
[Chorus]
[Em] Whether you're a brother or whether you're a mother
You're  [Em] stayin' alive, stayin' alive
[Em] Feel the city breakin' and everybody shakin'
I'm a- [Em] stayin' alive, stayin' alive
[Em] Ah, ah, ah, ah,  [Em] stayin' alive, stayin' alive
[Em] Ah, ah, ah, ah,  [Em] stayin' a 
[Em] li    [D] i     [Em] i   [Bm7] ive
                (break)
Yeah    [Em]   
 
[Outro = Middle 8 - A run Asus2 A A7 A6(x02222)]
[A]  Life goin' nowhere, somebody help me 
Somebody help me,  [Em] yeah
[A]  Life goin' nowhere, somebody help me, yea [Em] h 
I'm stayin' a [Em] li-i-i-i-ive

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