If you got the right groove, you can do those Motown covers with just a single acoustic guitar and a cajon backing a singer that can sing the song:



The most important aspect of these type of tunes is the timing - which points directly at "the dance" I've talked about before around here. These guys, you could dance to. Because the music dances. And to your audience, that is what counts, even if they aren't dancing.


Gettin' the groove comes before concerns about instrumentation.

Adding Bass, Drums, Keyboards, whatever else, is then just icing on the already tasty cake.

On the other hand, you could get into a situation where you have every instrument available on the original studio track available including background vox, but don't got the groove. And then you don't got nuthin'.


--Mac