This is a demo of my arrangement of Holiday In Berlin by Frank Zappa.

Creating a complete arrangement was inspired by two things: Firstly, learning to play the main themes from Overture To A Holiday In Berlin on saxophone and in this version I'm playing them on bari sax. Secondly, I had an epiphany a while back that the opening bars of FZ's guitar solo in Holiday In Berlin Full Blown are basically the origins of the theme in Inca Roads that follows his guitar solo.

In Inca Roads, that theme is played in D mixolydian, but here, I've played it in E mixolydian, the scale of the Holiday In Berlin guitar solo. My arrangement is basically a compact version of the overture, which starts in D Major and has various chromatic alterations and ends in E mixolydian and I've concluded with the Inca Roads theme.

This was composed by Frank Zappa and is arranged and produced by Geoff Pointer, who plays drums and bari sax and programmed a built in Logic Pro bass guitar and piano and various sampled instruments he created from: his voice; a cello bow on the G string of a bass guitar; a vibraphone mallet on a wine glass and a metal bowl; blowing into a beer bottle.

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Composed, arranged, performed and produced by Geoff Pointer. Lead, Rhythm and Bass Guitars; Alto Saxophone; Drums: Played by Geoff Pointer.

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