Howlin' Wolf - I'm Leavin' You
A 2013 Set work
- Created by: Charlie
- Created on: 30-03-13 20:24
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- Howlin' Wolf
- Background
- Composed: in recording September 1958
- Genre: Chicago rhythm & blues
- First Performance: Chicago blues club or recording studio
- Resources
- Solo Voice, Harmonica, Lead & Rhythm Electric Guitar , Piano & Drum Kit
- Structure
- Strophic with intro & fade out
- Melody
- Narrow range of notes in voice
- Melody based on blues & minor pentatonic scale
- improvised so every performance is varied
- Vocal phrases fall from an initial high note (D) to a 5th lower (G)
- Harmony
- 12 bar blues sequence
- Nearly every chord has added note harmony
- Parallel chromatic chords - played by sliding up & down the frets on guitar
- Tonality
- G Major with blue notes (flatterened 3rd, 5th, 7th)
- No modulations
- Texture
- Homophonic
- Call & response between voice & lead guitar
- Rhythm & Metre
- Swung Quavers
- Triplet subdivision of the beat
- Stop time
- Simple quadruple time
- Background
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