Re: Sleazy Chromatic Blues

[Randy Lilleston <randyl@xxxxxxxxxx>]

> Very few blues chromatic
> players use the button unless they want to play in Eb. :-)  Carey Bell evens
> goes so far as to cut off the lever. Lots of blues in D on the chromatic. Of
> course it's pretty obvious we don't utilize the full potential of the
> instrument. Paul deLay or Mike Turk are good examples of blues chromatic
> players WITH the button and Rod Piazza or Little Walter are good examples of
> blues chromatics players WITHOUT the button(or at least much of it)
> Tim Moody
> MississippiSaxophone

I'm surprised more people don't use G chromatics (not as common as C, but 
still easy to find). This lets you play songs in A (a very popular blues 
key) in the traditional chromatic third position. I really like doing 
this...I sometimes play George Smith's "Last Night" using a G chromatic.