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Average White Band-Pick Up The Pieces - BPM - 123

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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Ace-How Long - BPM - 123

[Intro Ab/Bb - 6x6544]
[Ab/Bb] [Bb] x4
then [Bm] on the 4th beat of the 4th Bb
 
[Chorus]
[Cm7] How long [Gm7] has this been [Fm7] goin' on [Fm7]  ([Fm7][Gm7]
[Cm7] How long [Gm7] has this been [Fm7] goin' on [Fm7]  ([Fm7][Gm7])  
 
[Verse 1]
[Ab/Bb] Friends with their fancy per [Bb] suasion
Don't ad [Ab/Bb] mit that it's part of a [Bb] scheme
But I [Ab/Bb] can't help but have my sus [Bb] picions
'Cause I [Ab/Bb] ain't quite as dumb as I [Bb] seem
And you [Ab/Bb] said you was never in [Bb] tendin' 
To [Ab/Bb] break up our scene in this [Bb] way
But there [Ab/Bb] ain't any use in pre [Bb] tendin' 
It could [Ab/Bb] happen to us any [Bb] day [Bm] 
 
[Chorus]
[Cm7] How long [Gm7] has this been [Fm7] goin' on [Fm7]  ([Fm7][Gm7]
[Cm7] How long [Gm7] has this been [Fm7] goin' on [Fm7]  ([Fm7][Gm7])  
 
[Musical Interlude: 16 measures of Cm to Bb]
 
[Verse 2]
[Ab/Bb] Friends with their fancy per [Bb] suasion
Don't ad [Ab/Bb] mit that it's part of a [Bb] scheme
But I [Ab/Bb] can't help but have my sus [Bb] picions
'Cause I [Ab/Bb] ain't quite as dumb as I [Bb] seem
And you [Ab/Bb] said you was never in [Bb] tendin' 
To [Ab/Bb] break up our scene in this [Bb] way
But there [Ab/Bb] ain't any use in pre [Bb] tendin' 
It could [Ab/Bb] happen to us any [Bb] day [Bm] 

[Chorus]
[Chorus]
[Cm7] How long [Gm7] has this been [Fm7] goin' on [Fm7]  ([Fm7][Gm7]
[Cm7] How long [Gm7] has this been [Fm7] goin' on [Fm7]  ([Fm7][Gm7])   
[Cm7] How long [Gm7] has this been [Fm7] goin' on [Gm7]  ([Fm7][Gm7])   
[Repeat until enough]

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