Wednesday, December 23, 2015

Aaron Burr, Sir/Burr's Advice - Hamilton - Leslie Odom Jr.

I recently had the wonderful opportunity to see Broadway's newest, most popular musical Hamilton written and starring Lin-Manuel Miranda (In The Heights).  Since most of the incredible songs are rapped instead of sung, I will be posting a couple short 'excerpts' from songs with recurring refrains/themes (aka songs with melodies playable on flute).  The first one here first appears in Aaron Burr, Sir in the first act with Hamilton and Burr's introduction.   Everything in brackets [...] is spoken/has no melody, and the only singer in this section is Aaron Burr.

D      G
Talk less

[Hamilton: What?]

G         G
Smile more
G      G    G      G        E       G      AE      D    C       E     E
Don't let them know what you're against or what you're for

[Hamilton: You can't be serious.]

C     ED      C   DE
You wanna get ahead?

[Hamilton: Yes.]

E        D     C     D     E         C    D     C   B
Fools who run their mouths off wind up dead

[Laurens: Yo yo yo yo yo!  What time is it?]
[Laurens/Lafayette/Mulligan: Show time!]

   D    C   B
...Like I said...

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