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Mel Belli Rocks Off Regular Offline Rocks Off Rules You Bastards Posts: 1,298	"She Smiled Sweetly" -- 6/8 time? Sep 7^th, 2011 at 10:03am Or 3/4?
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Heart Of Stone Rocks Off Regular Offline Rocks Off Rules Posts: 4,001 Charlottetown Prince Edward Is Gender:	Re: "She Smiled Sweetly" -- 6/8 time? Reply #2 - Sep 7^th, 2011 at 5:06pm Yes, it's 6/8th.
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KMC Rocks Off Regular Offline Rocks Off Rules You Bastards Posts: 198 Bayonne, NJ Gender:	Re: "She Smiled Sweetly" -- 6/8 time? Reply #4 - Sep 7^th, 2011 at 8:34pm For some reason, I think this song would work really well with a reggae beat. If you flip the world weary lyrics and slow melody to something upbeat, it would change the whole meaning. Now what that has to do with the 6/8 time question I have no clue. Just throwing it out there.
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Paranoid Android Rocks Off Regular Offline The Rocks Off Ladies Rule You Bastards!! Posts: 6,342 Chapel Hill, NC Gender:	Re: "She Smiled Sweetly" -- 6/8 time? Reply #5 - Sep 7^th, 2011 at 9:37pm I always thought it was 33 1/3
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Voodoo Chile in Wonderland Unholy Trinity Admin Offline The Stones are back you bastards!!!! Posts: 17,957 Wonderland Gender:	Re: "She Smiled Sweetly" -- 6/8 time? Reply #6 - Sep 7^th, 2011 at 10:07pm It's 12/8 (Seriously)
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Mel Belli Rocks Off Regular Offline Rocks Off Rules You Bastards Posts: 1,298	Re: "She Smiled Sweetly" -- 6/8 time? Reply #7 - Sep 8^th, 2011 at 8:41am 12/8. Interesting. At least for me, it's easier to digest if you just count in smaller segments of 3/4. Beautiful song, in any case. I've been revisiting it since hearing Buckingham's cover. I love his focus and approach to that (underrated) '66-'67 period.
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Re: "She Smiled Sweetly" -- 6/8 time?
Reply #8 - Sep 13^th, 2011 at 9:56pm

I saw 3 Stones cover bands last weekend and they all played most of the same tunes, but each band varied songs a little faster or slower. When I mentioned this to one of the musicians on the last night he told me thats the beauty of the songs, you can play them at different tempos and they still sound great. Some of the boots the Stones play them fast, and other times they play em slow. Thats so fvcking cool. Stones music, hell yeah ~ it's Bangin!

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mojoman Rocks Off Regular Offline HMERLS Posts: 6,593 joyzee Gender:	Re: "She Smiled Sweetly" -- 6/8 time? Reply #9 - Sep 14^th, 2011 at 8:14am on mr buckinghams new disc http://youtu.be/J70M4a5HFaI
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YoungPoliceman Rocks Off Regular Offline Rocks Off Rules You Bastards Posts: 125 Gender:	Re: "She Smiled Sweetly" -- 6/8 time? Reply #10 - Oct 2^nd, 2011 at 3:03am Always considered it 6/8; why would it be 12/8? I don't hear the meter like that at all?
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Re: "She Smiled Sweetly" -- 6/8 time?
Reply #11 - Oct 2^nd, 2011 at 12:40pm

Yes it has never made sense to me at all; in fact to be honest I can only handle 4/4 and 3/4 and I handle 6/8 as 3/4 etc. But I have the score (see below) and if you follow it it’s the way they wrote it, probably it was Brian LOL

I was wrong saying it’s all 12/8, most of the time it’s 12/8 with two short segments @ 6/8 check this score out

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Tom Rocks Off Regular Offline Rocks Off Rules You Bastards Posts: 635 US Gender:	Re: "She Smiled Sweetly" -- 6/8 time? Reply #12 - Oct 4^th, 2011 at 11:13am Very complicated http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Lo3NUps_RY
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Re: "She Smiled Sweetly" -- 6/8 time?
Reply #13 - Oct 4^th, 2011 at 12:38pm

Thanks, Voodoo. I had never seen that song scored before.

The song features Keith on organ, no? In that mid-to-late-'60s holding pattern, before he delved into the open-tuned guitars and became the Riff God, Keith was writing some brilliant things on keys: "Have You Seen Your Mother," "We Love You," etc. They tried, and for the most part succeeded, at everything they tried.

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fka Sandrew (a proud Rocks Off member since November 2001)&&&&"The Rolling Stones don't want any money ... so I'll keep it." - Melvin Belli, "Gimme Shelter"&&&&"We act so greedy, makes me sick sick sick."&&&&

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Voodoo Chile in Wonderland Unholy Trinity Admin Offline The Stones are back you bastards!!!! Posts: 17,957 Wonderland Gender:	Re: "She Smiled Sweetly" -- 6/8 time? Reply #14 - Oct 4^th, 2011 at 9:45pm You're welcome Mel, if you want another just let me know
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chrisloc I'm new!! Offline Rocks Off Rules You Bastards Posts: 2 France Gender:	Re: "She Smiled Sweetly" -- 6/8 time? Reply #15 - Oct 5^th, 2011 at 3:24am 3/4 here http://www.cijoint.fr/cjlink.php?file=cj201110/cijjzPm8XM.pdf
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Voodoo Chile in Wonderland Unholy Trinity Admin Offline The Stones are back you bastards!!!! Posts: 17,957 Wonderland Gender:	Re: "She Smiled Sweetly" -- 6/8 time? Reply #16 - Oct 6^th, 2011 at 10:55pm Merci Chris!!
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