Wednesday, October 7, 2020

Hank Williams -- No Time To Edit -- From A Reader -- October 7, 2020

 

When you and Sophia want to noodle around on the Prine/Womack recording of Cold, Cold Heart, let me give you a few tips.  I'll give you the base notes (similar to what she was doing with Mozart)  

But, let's start with the original - it's slower:



Here are the chords (left hand usually)... If you want to do a one note left hand, just play a D .  When it switches to A7 - just play the A.  etc.




The key of D is the most common for country music.  Johnny Cash sang lower.  A lot of his songs are in B flat.

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So, John Prine and Womack's version is also in B flat.

You'll play a B flat wherever Hank played a D.  Then you'll play an E flat wherever Hank played a G and you'll play an F wherever Hank played an A.

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Probably about 80 percent of country music uses just 3 chords.

In Hank's version, listen as the 3rd line G changes into the beginning of the 4th line A.  You will hear that chord progession very often in country music.  A lot of times, whoever's playing base will "walk" up by half notes from G to A flat to A.

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Have fun!

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