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grahamonica
157 posts
May 10, 2015
1:09 PM
Stumbled across this great tune...have a look.
Shades of "good morning little schoolgirl" I thought.

Last Edited by grahamonica on May 10, 2015 1:09 PM
jbone
1945 posts
May 10, 2015
7:24 PM
That is a TOTAL WINNER for us here. We have that on cd someplace, somehow I missed that it was LW on harp.

We do us some Minnie. She was absolutely the real deal. A few of her songs I do more of a backing/accent thing and never take a solo. It just works better that way.

Thanks for this Graham!
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May 11, 2015
10:01 AM
this is a fun song to count, there are a few different ways to achieve the same results
however if you count this in four four time placing the beat on the two and the four
you get a nineteen bar blues. then for the solo he takes just twelve bars, a common blues device

you can count this as a 9 and 1/2 bar blues but it puts the beat in a somewhat awkward place
19 bars is how a black person would feel it.... 9 1/2 bars is how us white folk would count it.

try counting it both ways..... both will work, however at 19 bars it is very relaxing and leisure
not quite as awkward.


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