Howlin' Wolf - I'm leavin you
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- Created on: 07-04-13 21:31
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- Howlin' Wolf - I'm leavin you
- Background
- Rhythm and blues
- Recorded in 1958
- Rhythm and metre
- Quadruple time, with sung rhythm
- Typical features...
- Backbeats
- Continuous triplets on the piano
- Semiquavers in lead guitar results in cross-rhythm
- Longer note lengths in instrumental
- Stop time
- Melody and Word-setting
- Mainly syllabic, occasional slurred passages
- Vocal range an octave - (D -D)
- Blue notes
- Irregular phrase lengths
- Variation indicates variation
- **** style of singing - nonsense syllables
- Harmony
- Twelve bar blues progression throughout - chords I-IV-V
- Use of 7th and 9th chords
- Notated G major - frequent blues note gives the impression in G minor
- Tonality
- In G
- No modulation
- Structure
- Twelve bar blues
- Six choruses - strophic
- Intro, instrumental and coda
- Resources and Texture
- Peformed by vocal, harmonica, lead and rhythm guitars, piano, bass and drum
- Melody-dominated homophony
- Performance techniques...
- Pitch bends
- Glissando
- Double/triple stopping in lead guitar
- Harmonica plays chords of two and three notes
- Background
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