Knock On Wood – Detail checklist

Section Bars Considerations

Intro Horns swell throughout
Verse 1 5-8 Drum reverb
Panning of guitar and organ
Piano centre
9-12
13-16 Guitar lick bar 14 (only happens once!)
Bridge 17-20 Horn swells
Guitar arpeggios – clean sound
Stop 21 All instruments hit this stab!
BVs panned
Chorus/Refrain 22-25 As Intro, vocal delay
Verse 2 26-29 Very tight horns!
Wah guitar stabs on 2nd and 3rd beat in 4th bar
30-33 Organ licks,
Bass grace notes on climb in bar 33
34-37 Big horn hits and lower voiced, syncopated horn part bar 36 and 37
Bridge 2 38-41 As bridge 1
Stop 42 Guitar slide
Chorus/Refrain 43-46 As Intro, vocal delay
Middle section 47-50 Chugging power chords and wah guitar,
Full velocity horns
Lead vocal panning effect
Bass slide down on last chord
Stop 51 Bass slide
Verse 3 52-55 Low horns - left, high – right

56-59 Funky organ fills

Off beat hits bar 59
60-63 Harmony BVs
Sliding horn lines
Bridge and 64-68 Crash cymbals
stop Organ gliss bar 67
Guitar slide in tacet bar
Chorus/Refrain 69-72 As Intro, vocal delay,
piano lick into outro bar 72
Outro 73-76 Cowbell and triangle
Double speed (quaver) piano chord bounce
Horn panning
Guitars play on 2&4 in bars 73 and 74 then funky semiquavers in bars75
and 76 on clean guitar, wah continues on 2&4.
77-80 High sustained organ chord on quaver push into bar 79
All instruments follow chromatic movement
Outro 2 81-89 Triangle enters
Wah guitar joins in with funky 16ths (83,84)
Outro 3 More Hammond organ lines
Timbre checklist
Drum kit
Bass
Guitar – powerchords
Guitar clean
Guitar – Wah wah
Hammond organ
Piano
Percussion

Brass section programming

Horn section – voicings
Horn section – velocities
Horn section – note lengths
Horn section - expression
Horn section - panning

Integration of audio
Compression
EQ
Reverb
Delay

General drum kit

Open hats and crash cymbals