Fil
319 posts
May 26, 2017
4:36 AM
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Virtually everything I work on, re songs, is twelve bar. I'd appreciate suggestions for a few eight bar solos to work out. I have a growing list, but some of you might have found particular songs useful.
Thanks.
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Phil Pennington
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SuperBee
4728 posts
May 26, 2017
7:10 AM
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Good question Fil.
Just about all my soloing is 12 bar too. Even some of the 8 bar songs go to 12for solos, as do the 16 bar numbers often.
Key to the highway may be one,
I put an 8 bar solo in it hurts me too, but I'm yet to hear a record of it with s harp, and I'm not all that happy with my solo
Honest I Do has 8 bars but it's a little interesting to follow with the variations in progression.
Sonny Boy Williamson's Peach Tree has 8 bars I think. It's not too bad to play, a bit like 3 little fishes.
8 bar songs often have a bridge and I think are more likely to shift to 12 for solos. I like them, more melodic as the changes come around faster, but then the need for a bridge to break up the short pattern
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Fil
320 posts
May 28, 2017
5:24 AM
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Thanks. I often count out songs I'm listening to. Bridges and changes in patterns tend to throw me off. I need to work on identifying and understanding them.
Billy Boy Arnold does a nice take on BB Broonzy's Key To The Highway, which itself needs no improvement. Good acoustic harp.
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Phil Pennington
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timeistight
2105 posts
May 28, 2017
7:43 AM
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"Worried Life Blues," "Trouble In Mind," "How Long," "Ain't Nobody's Business," "Stagolee" and "Heartbreak Hotel" are all eight-bar blues songs.
"Sitting On Top Of The World" is a nine-bar blues: it's a pretty standard eight- bar form with an extra bar in the turnaround.
"Walking By Myself" is an eight-bar blues in the A section with a different eight- bar form for the bridge (B section) to make a thirty-two bar form. However the Walter Horton solos are twelve bars on the original Jimmy Rogers recording.
Last Edited by timeistight on May 28, 2017 7:43 AM
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timeistight
2106 posts
May 28, 2017
8:04 AM
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Also, a bunch of New Orleans tunes -- "Junker's Blues," "The Fat Man," "Lawdy, Miss Clawdy," "Tipitina," "Tee-Nah-Nah" -- are eight-bar blues.
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Fil
321 posts
May 29, 2017
7:29 AM
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"Ask and you shall receive" or something like that. Thanks Timeistight. Good stuff.
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Phil Pennington
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Killa_Hertz
2379 posts
Jun 12, 2017
5:22 AM
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I love Key To The Highway and Sitting On Top Of The World.
I haven't watched it, but Adam has a trade it lesson on 8bar blues. I'm not sure if it's just a simple "How to Count"
Or not ...... but it may be worth a look.
Perhaps a youtube search of the subject would yield some good results.
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