Lime House Blues - crash and burn .....

TBman · #1 10-26-2016, 07:45 PM

Here's a progress report on my learning Lime House Blues. (About 3 weeks in)

At the 25 second mark I crash and then I restart. At about 1:02 you will hear me flub the A7 chord on the fifth fret which is giving me problems grabbing from the previous position of a index barre at the 3rd fret. I usually play the A7 with my index covering from the 5th string down, but here only from the 4th should be barred as the next beat is the open 5th string and that's what's been causing me to constantly flub it. My boom chuck style is very mechanical at this stage, but I still enjoy playing and learning it. I'm pretty close to 96bpm I think on this, but the real song is played about 50% faster! Hey if I can get this clean at the pace I'm at now I would be happy. At slower paces (80bpm) I can do this a lot cleaner.

I'm also playing with a thumb pick which I never thought I would be able to do.

WonderMonkey · #2 10-26-2016, 08:16 PM

I really enjoyed that, thanks for sharing.

Parts of that reminds me of the song "My Window Faces The South", a song written in the 1930's. Here is Russel Moore and his buddies doing it live.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vs_laGsMsjs

amyFB · #3 10-26-2016, 08:35 PM

Sweet - three weeks seems pretty quick to me!

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TBman · #4 10-26-2016, 08:55 PM

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Originally Posted by WonderMonkey

I really enjoyed that, thanks for sharing.

Parts of that reminds me of the song "My Window Faces The South", a song written in the 1930's. Here is Russel Moore and his buddies doing it live.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vs_laGsMsjs

Thanks! That's a neat song, thanks for the link.

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Originally Posted by amyFB

Sweet - three weeks seems pretty quick to me!

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Thanks! It's going to take a while yet, but I'm happy with my progress.
I have it just about memorized too which is a big plus.

Kerbie · #5 10-27-2016, 02:50 AM

Sounds good, Barry. Keep it up!

srick · #6 10-27-2016, 04:26 AM

Very clean sound Barry. And through most of the song, your tempo is good. Lately, I've been trying to play along with the video teacher if not for the speed, but just to get the swing feel.

I looked over the tab for that version last night and it was telling that TE notes he had a tough time finding appropriate chords. Steve Kaufman works it out of a 1st position C (extending the E of the 4th string back and forth to the F#(2 to 4th fret)) and does a C-A7-G-B7-Em-A7-D-G progression (key of G). He uses the fourth string to carry the tune.

It's a much more intuitive fingering than TE's. Believe me these minor swing tunes are a bear. You're doing a good job!

Rick

RustyAxe · #7 10-27-2016, 08:31 AM

It's coming along nicely!

TBman · #8 10-27-2016, 10:41 AM

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Originally Posted by srick

Very clean sound Barry. And through most of the song, your tempo is good. Lately, I've been trying to play along with the video teacher if not for the speed, but just to get the swing feel.

I looked over the tab for that version last night and it was telling that TE notes he had a tough time finding appropriate chords. Steve Kaufman works it out of a 1st position C (extending the E of the 4th string back and forth to the F#(2 to 4th fret)) and does a C-A7-G-B7-Em-A7-D-G progression (key of G). He uses the fourth string to carry the tune.

It's a much more intuitive fingering than TE's. Believe me these minor swing tunes are a bear. You're doing a good job!

Rick

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Originally Posted by RustyAxe

It's coming along nicely!

Thanks! I'm going to take another look at revoicing the small section that's slowing me down.

jseth · #9 10-27-2016, 11:20 AM

One thing that may help you along would be to listen to a number of other artists' takes on this classic tune... it's been around for a LONG TIME and has been recorded by dozens of folks.

As much as I love Tommy's playing and appreciate his incredible skill-set, I have heard a few of his interpretations of classic jazz standards that didn't really do much for me at all. Widening your own appreciation of the song itself may help you find that "feel" you are wanting to have...

srick · #10 10-27-2016, 01:28 PM

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Originally Posted by jseth

One thing that may help you along would be to listen to a number of other artists' takes on this classic tune... it's been around for a LONG TIME and has been recorded by dozens of folks.

As much as I love Tommy's playing and appreciate his incredible skill-set, I have heard a few of his interpretations of classic jazz standards that didn't really do much for me at all. Widening your own appreciation of the song itself may help you find that "feel" you are wanting to have...

And as good as it is to hear a guitar play "Limehouse Blues", it just cries for Stephane Grapelli's fiddle to take the lead.