Chords for West Coast and Texas Jump Blues Guitar Module by Tommy Harkenrider

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[Fm] _ _ [Eb] _ [G] _ _ _ _ _
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_ [D] _ _ _ [Ab] This is going to be my fourth Jump Blues module, and this module is going to be focusing on
West Coast and Texas Blues guitar players.
What I want to do is I want to profile a few of these guitar players in different modules,
and be able to kind of show you some of their signature lines and how to get them into your playing.
_ _ It's important to talk about what the format of this is.
Obviously it's going to be a 12-bar blues, but what a Jump Blues is, is kind of contingent
on a feel and a tempo.
_ _ _ That tends to set the mood for all the lines you play.
It always kind of creates this anticipation.
So a very basic one is [Bb] going to be, _ _ _
_ _ [F] _ _ _ _ _ [Ebm] _
_ [Db] _ _ [Bm] _ _ _ [E] _
you're going to hear both Glory Carter [Eb] and T-Bone
play this lick quite [Gm] a bit.
Every note I play [Ab] is going to _ sound good because it's within the key center, but there's some
that sound better and some that don't sound as good.
And remember it's motif based.
And we're trying to make a design, if you're new to playing Jump Blues, to have some unique
_ _ ideas of the guitar.
And that way I can be able to bend [Bb] from the root, _ [Dbm] _
then I [Eb] have the flat.
_ _ [E] Or go.
_ _ _ _ [Eb] _ [Bb] _ _
So let's keep going with [Bm] that.
_ [Bb] _ _ [F] _
_ [Dm] _ _ _ [A] _ _ [E] _ [Fm] _
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_ _ [Eb] _ _ _ _ _ [Dm] _
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[Bb] _ _ [Gm] _ _ [D] _ _ _ [Eb] _
_ [F] _ _ _ _ _ [Eb] _ _
[C] _ _ [Eb] _ _ _ [Gm] _ _ _
_ [Eb] _ _ _ [Bb] _ _ _
Two [Abm] of your players have played with a Johnny Otis band here, Pete Guitar-Lewis and Jimmy Nolan.
Both those guys, along with Johnny Otis, had their [Em] _ careers kind of start with a guy named Monty [Ab] Easter. _ _
_ And both these guitar players move [E] down.
[F] _
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_ [Eb] _ _ _ [F] _ _ _ _
_ _ [Eb] _ [Bb] _ _ [F] _ _ _
_ _ This is going to be part two of our lesson.
_ [Bb] _ _ _ [F] _ _ _
[Gm] _ _ _ _ [B] _ _ [Ab] _
Charlie Christian, obviously, that was the big guy to hear on the radio.
So you've got to hear that.
One thing is, Pee Wee's got this great feel about him, but he's also very predictable
on his guitar licks.
They're very chordally based.
_ And they tend to be very _ hit [F] on certain chords.
In the past lessons, we were able to kind of float [A] across the 1, 4, and the 5 [Em] with some certain licks.
Some of these licks right now, you can't do other than playing [Eb] on the 4 chord, the 5 chord,
or the 1 chord.
_ [Bb] _ So one of the most important things that I see is he has this tremolo pick.
And that kind of existed with a lot of the cocktail blues guys in the 40s.
Guys like Oscar Moore and Johnny Moore and Tiny Webb.
So, what we'd do [A] is we'd have this tremolo pick and we'd slide into it.
And we talked about this on my swing guitar module.
You've got to [Ab] be going_
_ And it's just an embellishment _ _ that's got to help hit the line home.
So, one of the licks I like to use [E] is_
_ _ [F] _ _
_ _ And you can hit either the tonic or the 7.
I believe it actually ends on the 7th.
_ _ [Em] _ _ [Bbm] _ _
_ _ [G] _ _ [Abm] _ _ Now the 4 is going to be based off that _ [Gb] Eb9. _ _
[C] _ _ _ _ [F] That's on the 1. _
_ [F] _ _ [E] That 4 to the 1, _ definitely worth knowing.
_ _ So again_ _ _
_ [D] _ _ _ [Dm] _ [Bb] _ _ [Gm] _
_ [Bbm] _ _ _ [F] _ _ _ _