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Date: Tue, 1 Aug 2000 18:28:14 -0700
From: "Jeff and Kim Hale"
Subject: Blues form at the local jam

Here is a partial list I started a while back. I'd sure like to combine
this with others, fill it out and come up with a comprehensive list. The
terms are as I learned them from local bass players and drummers. Some
could be regional expressions. I'd like to develop a list of beats and
examples of classic songs that exemplify the form.

FUNDAMENTAL BLUES BEATS

BEATS EXAMPLES
Shuffles
Texas shuffle She's Tuff
Chicago double shuffle (backbeat) Muddy Waters (Sam Lay style)
driving shuffle Mercury Blues
medium-up shuffle Born in Chicago
Jump Blues Caladonia
Slow Blues Stormy Monday
drag (dick-in-the dirt slow blues) Ever Loved a Woman
slow loping blues It Hurts Me Too
Boogie Rocker ?????
Funk George Clinton, James Brown
Swamp-Pop Baby Scratch My Back
Swamp-Tinged Uptempo Blues I Told My Little Woman
Boogie Woogie Piazza's Backdoor Man
swing Kansas City
Clippity-Clop Folsom Prison?
Rumba Cross-Cut Saw
Four on the Floor Crossroads (Cream version)
March Big Boss Man
2-beat Eyesight for the Blind

FUNDAMENTAL BLUES RIFFS/BASSLINES
Hoochie Coochie Man Hoochie Coochie Man
Killing Floor Killing Floor
Lumpty shuffle (this is an up riff)
Dumpty shuffle (this is a down riff)
Lumpty dumpty (this is, you guessed it, an up then down baseline riff)
Hypnotic minor groove
Trance and drone groove
Green Onions Green Onions, Help Me
Elmore James flavor Dust My Broom, Sky is Crying

For example, somebody might call for a Killing Floor thing, or "lets swing
one." And it is helpful for newbies to have some point of reference in a
jam situation.

Suggestions, additions, compilations, and new taxonomies gladly accepted.

Jeff Harpdog Hale