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Thread #14431   Message #670230
Posted By: GUEST,_gargoyle
16-Mar-02 - 12:29 PM
Thread Name: Two chord songs
Subject: RE: BS: Two chord songs
Nice additions to an old thread. I'm going to play around with some of these new ones (forgotten by me)immediately.

The beauty of a "two chorder" is that a beginner has something....but it also has a foundation upon which a performer can experiment and play around, and just generally have fun.

Argenine - your example of Jambalaya - is precisely such a tune. It can begin slow, simple and haunting, and then an accidental is thrown in, the tempo increased, a three note blues-slide slips between, and by the sixth time through...a "quite lullaby" has turned into a "crazed, drunken, tarrantella" sloshing in beer and creole-sauce.

(Cripes- it is hard to imagine it has now been over three years since my "banishment" by mad Max and my needing to resort to dots and dashes to make postings. Too many, thin skinned, drunken royalists in those days - and a clueless moderator.)

Nice to see Roger/Mr.Seed/Wolfie's names again, like petals of dried pressed flowers from a love-in.