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11-14-2022, 06:56 AM
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Baby please don't go.. amazing song all done with E7
I was trying to learn please don't go.. covered by lighting Hopkins and it was getting men way down I could just not get the melody and rhythm right ... but then I made the discovery the whole melody can be grabbed with just modifying a open E7. And you are set up to that cool change to A and that neat and that ending G A D E chord run.. this floors me,, this is a bout the most easy song I have ever learned... you still have to nail the low E constantly.. but that E7 really does all the work.. and it's way fun to play! E7 open.. give it a go.. it's a great tune
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11-14-2022, 10:09 AM
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That song is cool in a few ways. I love many recordings of it, my favorite probably being the Willie and the Poor Boys version. And check out the doubled bass and baritone on the version by… no, really… Paul Revere and the Raiders.
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11-14-2022, 11:40 AM
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You've discovered "the blues", essentially!
 Blues always was pretty much a one-chord genre - e.g. "just modifying a open E7" is a good way to put it (applying minor pentatonic with some bending). The later 3-chord blues tradition just involves temporary deviations to the IV and V, and the IV7 is little more than a minor version of the I (A9 = Em6, if you ignore the root.) My favourite version of the song is probably still the first cover I heard, by Them: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Wah7MqEHFg. That really is just one chord. (Jimmy Page was on that session, but apparently did not play the killer riff.) More one-chord blues (both in E): Smokestack Lightnin; https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Ri7TcukAJ8 (first thing I ever played on guitar!) Spoonful: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3LFjHo7Cdrw
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