R&B Jam Mercy Mercy Me (Part 2 Lead)

Please help support my lessons by donating here: https://paypal.com/paypalme/mzabel335 R&B Jam! Mercy Mercy Me (Marvin Gaye): Part 2, Lead Hi all! You asked for it, and here’s the another installment. This series is all about preparing you to go out and enjoy jamming to classic blues, R&B, and blues-rock numbers. The idea is to give you a couple of rhythm approaches and a lead approach, so you can be confident when you grab your guitar and get up on stage! "Mercy Mercy Me (The Ecology)" was the second single from Marvin Gaye's 1971 album, What's Going On. Following the breakthrough of the title track's success, the song, written solely by Gaye, became regarded as one of popular music's most poignant anthems of sorrow regarding the environment. Led by Gaye playing piano, strings conducted by Paul Riser and David Van De Pitte, multi-tracking vocals from Gaye and The Andantes, multiple background instruments provided by The Funk Brothers and a leading sax solo by Wild Bill Moore, the song rose to number 4 on Billboard's Pop Singles chart and number one for two weeks on the R&B Singles charts on August 14 through to August 27, 1971. The distinctive percussive sound heard on the track was a wood block struck by a rubber mallet, drenched in studio reverb. The song also brought Gaye one of his rare appearances on the Adult Contemporary chart, where it peaked at number 34. In Canada, "Mercy Mercy Me" spent two weeks at number 9. In 1991, a music video of the song was released by Motown Records, featuring appearances by celebrities such as Smokey Robinson, Johnny Gill, Big Daddy Kane, Holly Robinson Peete, Ralph Tresvant, Bobby Brown, Rosie Perez, Bell Biv Devoe, Wesley Snipes, Tyler Collins (singer), Malcolm Jamal Warner, Diana Ross, Stevie Wonder, David Bowie, Stephanie Mills, Debbie Harry and Vanessa L. Williams. Here’s the TAB: https://www.dropbox.com/s/qy1embu9gri... Here’s the backing track: https://www.dropbox.com/s/rrgbszebww3...