After finishing up a project I did to digitize a bunch of 78 rpm records and create CDs, I went back to my LP collection to see what I might want to digitize. I have a lot of late 80's music and after converting Xmal Deutschland Viva, I converted The Mission's second album The First Chapter. While doing this I had the guitar in hand and started picking out the notes for the song Naked And Savage.
It is a pretty straightforward song with two guitar parts. The form is verse-verse-chorus-verse-chorus-verse-chorus. There are slight modifications on what is played on the guitar and an intro to start the song off.
A simple electronic beat starts the song. A single Dm strum comes in, then a single bass D note, then another Dm strum. The acoustic drums start with a simple kick that progresses to an interesting pattern, that sounds like a pseudo-native american drum. The verse guitar progression is an arpeggiated Dm, Dm/F, C, G. Each verse starts with this progression played twice then into the vocals. The vocal parts for Verse1 and Verse4 use a simplified, more subdued chord strum rather than arpeggiating. It also only strums the Dm and C chords, letting these ring through what would be the Dm/F and G chords. This gives some dynamics to the overall song. Verse2 and Verse3 use the arpeggiating pattern over the vocals. The chorus parts are a simple arpeggiated pattern of Bb and A chords. This pattern repeats four times with the fourth being Bb, C that transitions back into the verse progression. The last chorus transitions this way back to verse progression that is played four times into fadeout.
Here's my version of lyrics/tablature for Naked And Savage.
