Cosmic Girl
by Jamiroquai
released on the album Travelling without Moving in
Music and Lyrics by Jason Kay & Derrick McKenzie
Produced by Jason Kay & Al Stone
Bass played by Stuart Zender
Transcription and Engraving by Peter Crighton
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Transcription and Engraving by Peter Crighton
Published on
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Annotations
Amazingly, this seems to have been recorded without a click track, but with a rock-solid tempo. Hats off to drummer Derrick McKenzie. It’s only from the post-chorus onwards that there is a slight variation and increase in tempo, but overall it always stays very close to 120 bpm.
mm. 8, 20, 52, 56 & 64 The intro and verse Rhodes pattern has a variation that is seemingly randomly occurring five times throughout the song, where the top note is a D instead of C, making it a Baug7♯9 chord.
The chords in the chorus are likewise randomly varied, with the Rhodes sometimes playing C♯m7/G♯ instead of G♯m7 and Amaj7/B instead of B7.
The post-chorus doesn’t really have more harmonic information other than the bassline and the vocals, but the standard chorus chords are implied.
Occasionally, the guitar plays an F♯ – a perfect fifth – over the Baug7♭9 in the verses and never an augmented fifth. Mostly, it omits either, though.
Annotations
Amazingly, this seems to have been recorded without a click track, but with a rock-solid tempo. Hats off to drummer Derrick McKenzie. It’s only from the post-chorus onwards that there is a slight variation and increase in tempo, but overall it always stays very close to 120 bpm.
mm. 8, 20, 52, 56 & 64 The intro and verse Rhodes pattern has a variation that is seemingly randomly occurring five times throughout the song, where the top note is a D instead of C, making it a Baug7♯9 chord.
The chords in the chorus are likewise randomly varied, with the Rhodes sometimes playing C♯m7/G♯ instead of G♯m7 and Amaj7/B instead of B7.
The post-chorus doesn’t really have more harmonic information other than the bassline and the vocals, but the standard chorus chords are implied.
Occasionally, the guitar plays an F♯ – a perfect fifth – over the Baug7♭9 in the verses and never an augmented fifth. Mostly, it omits either, though.
Additional resources
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Live at Phoenix Festival, Long Marston, England (1997)
The only live footage with the lineup from the studio recording.
- Live at Woodstock Festival, Rome, New York, USA (1999)
- Live on Later… with Jools Holland (2001)
- Live at Verona Arena, Italy (2002)
- Live at Montreux Jazz Festival, Switzerland (2003)
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Live at Quilmes Rock, Buenos Aires, Argentina (2011)
Other live footage throughout the years. Sometime between 1999 and 2001 they changed the second chord of the chorus from minor to major. In 1999 they did so only in the intro (which is missing from the studio recording).