Chords for Jon Cleary - History of New Orleans Piano

_ _ _ _ In the history of New Orleans, piano music _ _ features _ a lot of horns, a lot of drums, and the piano.
And the piano's _ _ a hip little tool because it kind of _ allows you to reproduce what all the elements of a band would do.
_ So you have [C] the percussion, _ [Cm] _ _ _ _ [G] _ _
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the syncopation, which is the root of New Orleans music.
It's very syncopated, very funky. _
And then you _ have _ the _ _ _ harmonic aspect.
You can get to play around with these lovely [C] chord changes.
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You've got the blues, you have _ _ [F]
this _ _ _ _ [Gm] _ _ _
_ _ [Em] 12-8 groove. _ _ _
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_ _ And then you have _ what they call here, they call it rumba.
It's a slightly different meaning from rumba in Cuba or Spain.
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_ _ I'm just going through a bunch of different styles of New [Dm] Orleans stuff.
_ _ Back in the day, you had a big influence from Cuba, which was the habanera.
So back in, _ _ _ almost _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 70 years ago, I guess, with Jelly Roll and more, _ _ _ _ _
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_ _ that's the habanera.
But you hear it [Fm] pretty soon, _ [Am] _ _ [Fm] _ _ _ [Am] _
_ _ [Fm] which is something that Professor Longhair did later on.
And then _ _ you've got all kinds of stuff.
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All kind of good time New Orleans jazz.
[E] And then you have the melancholy, the sweetening. _ _
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_ _ _ And then you've got your _ _ New Orleans boogie woogie.
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[Db] And then you've got your New Orleans [Cm] funk.
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_ [C] _ _ _ [Em] And then you have all the gospel stuff.
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_ _ [G] _ _ _ [Eb] _ And it goes on and on and on.
_ Professor _ _ _ _ _ _ _ Longhair.
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_ _ _ _ _ And James [Bbm] Booker.
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And you [A] had a guy called Huey Smith back in _ the_ _ _ _
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_ And in New Orleans, you have a tradition of parade.
_ It's called the second line.
Because in the front, you have the band that's playing.
And in the second line are all the hundreds and hundreds of people that join on the back,
playing any kind of percussion instruments and singing along. _ _ _ _ _
And it's usually brass band music.
And in the brass band, you had a big bass drum and snare drums.
And the bass drum _ _ would often _ [Eb] _ _ play_ _
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And [F] _ _ that's called four and one, _ two, [Ab] three, four and one.
So it's anticipating the next bar. _ _ _ _ _
And syncopation of funk is all about the way you break up the four beats of a bar
and place the emphasis _ on odd fractions.
And it kind of makes you want to dance.
And that's the whole idea with brass band music.
You dance as you parade, as you march down the street. _ _
[C] And so the piano, you can kind of replicate that too.
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And it goes on and [C] on and on.
_ Through the last hundred years, there are many, many different aspects _ to the music that's been played here.
_ _ And the denominator is a thread that runs through it.
And you can spot New Orleans music a mile off.
You can tell when something comes from New Orleans. _ _ _ _