I'm Leaving You Chester Burnett (Howlin' Wolf) 1658 Chicago
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- Created on: 03-04-14 19:28
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- I'm Leaving You Chester Burnett (Howlin' Wolf) 1658 Chicago
- Structure
- Twelve bar blues structure
- Six choruses, strophic form (same music, different words)
- Use of intro, instrumental and coda
- Tonality
- In G major but use of blue note (Bb) sometimes gives the impression of G minor
- Harmony
- 12 bar blues progressions throughout using chords I, IV & V
- Use of 7th and 9th chords
- Blues scale
- Minor pentatonic
- Texture
- Melody-dominated homophony, with stop choruses
- Resources
- Predominantly syllabic with slurred passages
- Soulful singing style typical of Chicago rhythm and blues
- Use of harmonica; lead and rhythm guitars; piano; bass and drums
- Performance techniques include: pitch bends; Glissandos; Double/triple stopping in guitar part
- Harmonica plays two or three note chords
- Other
- In the 1950's Wolf had four songs that qualified as "hits" on the Billboard national R&B charts: "How Many More Years", his first and biggest hit, made it to #4 in 1951: it's flip side, "Moanin' at Midnight", made it to #10 the same year
- "Smokestack Lightning" charted for three weeks in 1956, peaking at #8; and "I asked For Water (she gave me gasoline)" appeared on the charts for one week in 1956, in the #8 position
- I'm leaving You was written by the black American blues singer Chester Burnett who was famous for keeping alive the impassioned vocal style of Chicago rhythm and blues
- In the 1950's Wolf had four songs that qualified as "hits" on the Billboard national R&B charts: "How Many More Years", his first and biggest hit, made it to #4 in 1951: it's flip side, "Moanin' at Midnight", made it to #10 the same year
- Rhythm
- 4/4 time with swung quavers
- Typical features include: backbeat; triplets in the piano part;semi quavers in the lead guitar fills resulting in cross-rhythms
- Longer note lengths in the instrumental - from bar 39
- Stop rhythm
- Melody
- Vocal range of an octave
- Use of blue notes (Bb)
- Opening piano improvisation based around the minor pentatonic scale on G
- Irregular phrase lengths
- Melodic variations in each verse due to improvisation
- Use of ****/ vocalisations (nonsense syllables)
- Structure
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