jaxson50 Posted November 22, 2014 Share Posted November 22, 2014 you can do a lot with one cord.. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=_6urVX-kHmo Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Riffster Posted November 22, 2014 Share Posted November 22, 2014 Even Tony's sound got 80'ish in the 80's Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jaxson50 Posted November 22, 2014 Author Share Posted November 22, 2014 1416628292[/url]' post='1593440']Even Tony's sound got 80'ish in the 80's It didn't sound to much like 80s in 1967 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
L5Larry Posted November 22, 2014 Share Posted November 22, 2014 you can do a lot with one cord.. I think you need to listen a little closer! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jaxson50 Posted November 22, 2014 Author Share Posted November 22, 2014 1416632756[/url]' post='1593456']I think you need to listen a little closer! His hand didn't once did it? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
badbluesplayer Posted November 22, 2014 Share Posted November 22, 2014 you can do a lot with one cord.. Er two..... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Searcy Posted November 22, 2014 Share Posted November 22, 2014 With all due respect top Tony White, I thought James Brown invented the two chord groove. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OnnhmtUkGdY Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Farnsbarns Posted November 22, 2014 Share Posted November 22, 2014 you can do a lot with one cord.. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=_6urVX-kHmo At least a 1, 3 and 4 chord in the first 20 seconds. He even sings the root of the 3 and 4 as they come up. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sg50 Posted November 22, 2014 Share Posted November 22, 2014 I play electric guitar with one cord all of the time. :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jaxson50 Posted November 22, 2014 Author Share Posted November 22, 2014 One chord drone Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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jaxson50 Posted November 22, 2014 Author Share Posted November 22, 2014 http://www.musictimes.com/articles/6008/20140508/6-great-songs-with-just-one-chord-aretha-franklin-the-beatles-and-more.htm Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jaxson50 Posted November 22, 2014 Author Share Posted November 22, 2014 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Searcy Posted November 23, 2014 Share Posted November 23, 2014 Bunch a damn nitpickers in this place Jaxson Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tman Posted November 23, 2014 Share Posted November 23, 2014 I think Paperback Writer was one or two chords. I agree, you can do a lot if you've got it, what ever it is. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Riffster Posted November 23, 2014 Share Posted November 23, 2014 It didn't sound to much like 80s in 1967 Or 1991 when the song was recorded. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jaxson50 Posted November 24, 2014 Author Share Posted November 24, 2014 1416759288[/url]' post='1593910']Or 1991 when the song was recorded. Don't get technical Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
daveinspain Posted November 24, 2014 Share Posted November 24, 2014 Chain of Fools - Aretha Franklin Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stein Posted November 24, 2014 Share Posted November 24, 2014 I'm going to have to nitpick here, forgive me. This is in fact one chord. I'll prove it. First off, while Jazz and Blues are similar, there is a difference in that once one starts to think about the harmony and melody of notes, starts to comprehend the meaning and dissonance of the flatted seventh, he ceases to be playing blues and starts playing Jazz. Discuss. This here ('dis here, or dish here) is Blues. Fact: this here tune is based on, or the same, as a Hooker tune or Slim Harpo. Same "one chord boogie" as the rest of them. The "chord changes" are riffs. Or licks. Or whatever they called them. For examples of chord changes, reference "La Grange" version or maybe "Green Onions" as where a a riff is used and makes chord changes. Using actual chords for riffs in a Blues tune doesn't count. Discuss. If it did, then anything played by Willie Dixon would be incomprehensible. Discuss. That is to say, that when a Blues musician makes a chord change, he means it. How many notes played at once during a riff or where the root is at any given time, while significant in other forms of music, is not the way with blues. Discuss. Feel free to argue. I have been seeking the answers to this most of my life. I might hope to learn something. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Farnsbarns Posted November 24, 2014 Share Posted November 24, 2014 Well, any chord which is built only with notes entirely from the scale of the key and mode could be said to be part of the melody, lick/riff as you put it. Semantics aside, there was a 3 chord and a 4 chord played. Not only that but to me there was a clear change to the harmonic centre. Theres most certainly more than 1 chord in LA Grange, note the long section in C when the lead starts... It's a key change for that matter. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stein Posted November 24, 2014 Share Posted November 24, 2014 Well, any chord which is built only with notes entirely from the scale of the key and mode could be said to be part of the melody, lick/riff as you put it. Semantics aside, there was a 3 chord and a 4 chord played. Not only that but to me there was a clear change to the harmonic centre. Theres most certainly more than 1 chord in LA Grange, note the long section in C when the lead starts... It's a key change for that matter. I put this up as an example, because as you state, there IS a chord change in this tune. Unlike the "Hip Shake (Boogie)" that this tune is based on. And also, where most versions of this type of tune use single notes in the riff, Rev. Gibbons actually uses chords, particularly in the electric sections. But...the fact that the ZZ version uses chords instead of single notes, I suggest does not change the nature, or rather, the idea it is still a riff over one chord. A chord chenge, in Blues, rather is like what is done here when the band goes to the IV chord. THAT'S a "chord change", so to speak. I want to point out that this very same "tune", IS in fact Slim Harpo's "Hip Shake". And, the same old argument over The HOOK'S typical stuff applies. And these, essentially, are "one chord boogies" as opposed to "I-IV-V" or "I-VI-II-V" or other blues tunes. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Californiaman Posted November 26, 2014 Share Posted November 26, 2014 Time is right... for some Tony Joe White. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cougar Posted November 27, 2014 Share Posted November 27, 2014 The "chord changes" are riffs. Or licks. Or whatever they called them.... Discuss. I'm a 12-bar blues player. This guy might have the blues, but I'd hesitate to call that a blues piece. Maybe country blues, which is pretty well undefined. I agree with Farns - he seems to be playing in E-minor and has that recurring quick-change to G then A in one measure. OK, a G6 chord is just an E-minor with a minor 7th thrown in, but the A chord? There's no A note in an E-minor chord. I'd call it three chords. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Riffster Posted November 27, 2014 Share Posted November 27, 2014 I'm a 12-bar blues player. This guy might have the blues, but I'd hesitate to call that a blues piece. Maybe country blues, which is pretty well undefined. Tony Joe White is a Nashville staple, not a blues player and not a country player but something in between. The King of the Swamp. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
milod Posted November 28, 2014 Share Posted November 28, 2014 A lotta folks play the old mountain dulcimer with just melody and drones so considered in one way, it's a one-chord piece. OTOH, adding a melody tends to add a note here and there so it's technically not "one chord." John Lee Hooker did a lotta stuff that might be considered similarly as one chord, but... that may have more to do with where his fingers were rooted as noted above in terms of functional "chords." Functionally a lotta other "blues" material ditto. I think in ways trying to dissect somma this stuff is kinda like dissecting and chemically analyzing a cell to define "life." You can have all the constituent parts figured but... it's not what gives it life. m Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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