In one of the campfire song lessons Neil talked about one chord songs. He said there was not many then started to name off about 4. I can't think of any, never seen one. So if someone could be so kind as to tell me the name of one or two, I could go looking for the tabs and see what that looks like. I am curious.
I know I could go back and listen to Niels vids...but I am being lazy and he was kind of quick when he mentioned it. It wasn't a main part of what he was covering.
Thanks,
David
One chord songs...what where those again?
quincy451 wrote:
I can't recall either interesting though I probably will go and check out the vids again. Reminds me of Lou Reed though; Who said "One chord is fine. Two chords is pushing it. Three chords and you're into jazzIn one of the campfire song lessons Neil talked about one chord songs. He said there was not many then started to name off about 4. I can't think of any, never seen one. So if someone could be so kind as to tell me the name of one or two, I could go looking for the tabs and see what that looks like. I am curious.
I know I could go back and listen to Niels vids...but I am being lazy and he was kind of quick when he mentioned it. It wasn't a main part of what he was covering.
Thanks,
David
I can think of a few songs that could qualify as one chord songs. Most are actually repetetive riffs and not just strumming the chord. Songs like "Big Fat Mama" [Mississippi Fred McDowell], "Smokestack Lightning" [Willie Dixon, Howlin' Wolf], "Do the Do" [Wolf], "Graveyard Train" [CCR], "Bootleg" [CCR], and others never change chords.
A few of John Fogerty's songs fall into this category, or at least close. Born On The Bayou really added D and A to the E7 vamp for a little variation. Songs I would consider one chord wonders (without going back and listening) would be
Keep On Chooglin'
Commotion
Run Through The Jungle? (may have had a change to a major IV in a minor key)
And of course the types of blues tunes brought up by Greg.
Neil
Keep On Chooglin'
Commotion
Run Through The Jungle? (may have had a change to a major IV in a minor key)
And of course the types of blues tunes brought up by Greg.
Neil