Re: [Harp-L] My Babe at the Blues Jam

[Rick Dempster <rick.dempster@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

The changes for the song is just 'The Saints' ie 'When the saints go
marching in' and the solos a twelve bar that hangs on the V on the ninth
and tenth bar (rather than V to IV) There are a heap of songs that use the
'Saints' progression, and if one is called in the outfits I play in, we say
'the Saints straight through' or 'Saints with twelve bar solos' depending
on whoever is leading.
RD

On 31 January 2013 11:38, Elizabeth Hess <TrackHarpL@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> The Little Walter tune, "My Babe", is familiar to many but not to all.
>
> If my ear is correct, on the recording it has a non-standard 16-bar
> progression for the verses, and a standard 12-bar progression for the solos
> as follows:
>
> Verse:
>
> I       I       I       I
> I       I       V       V
> V       V       IV <break>
> I       I       I       I
>
>
> Instrumental Solos:
>
> I       I       I       I
> IV      IV      I       I
> V       IV      I       I/V
>
>
> I tried this at my local open mic jam several weeks ago, and it went okay,
> mostly because of the luck of the draw with the other musicians I got,
> EXCEPT that for the solos everyone (including me, whups!) ignored my
> instructions and instinctively played the first two lines just like the
> verse, and the last line as a standard turn-around:
>
> I       I       I       I
> I       I       V       V
> V       IV      I       I/V
>
>
> My question:  Do any of you lead this song in a jam situation where you
> don't know -- or barely know -- the other musicians and their abilities?
>  What instructions to the band give you the best results, where "best"
> means something that hangs together and sounds good to the audience, even
> if it varies from the recorded version?
>
> Elizabeth H. (aka "Tin Lizzie")
> Jammus Rattus
>
>
>


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