If you've been around longer than a decade, you know about Charlie Brown. A classic comic strip started up in the 50s that ran until 2000. It got made into many TV specials, like A Charlie Brown Christmas. In A Charlie Brown Christmas, they are putting on a play. While they are rehearsing for this play, the kids dance to a song. This song is called Linus and Lucy by Vince Guaraldi.
I grew up watching this movie, and my dad had bought the sheet music for piano for the movie. Problem is, he couldn't read music. But he'd try his best and play this song by ear. He was very good. Once I was older and I knew both bass and treble clefts, I helped him get the rest of the songs down so now he can play the whole show. Suffice to say, sitting at the piano watching my dad feel what note was right was a neat experience for me.
This song starts out with a piano's left hand playing the base chords for the song for the intro for 4 bars. The drummer in the back is hitting ever other beat while using a cabassa shaker. There is then 2 repeated 10 bar phrases and then the shaker cuts out and and the piano does the iconic Charlie Brown hit chords for 6 bars. The first 20 bars are repeated. Then there is a scripted piano solo. Then back into the first 20 bars again. Then an unscripted piano solo.Then the first 20 bars again. From there it is kinda just a repeat of the intro 4 bars with some piano comping. The overall format is IAACAASAAUAAIII. It is a lot of AAs with other things in between. Just like in the show, this is the kind of song one could dance to, nothing too fancy, just something you could jazz out by yourself to.
I like this song a lot, I hope you do too.
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