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Kevin Blues Boogie rhythm

This is a fast paced rhythm in the Key of E major, a bunch of ideas put together to make a basic 12 bar blues

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E
E
A
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Jun 3 2011 (All day)
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Skip JAmes

Nehemiah Curtis "Skip" James (June 9, 1902 -- October 3, 1969) was an American delta blues singer, guitarist, pianist and songwriter. Born in Bentonia, Mississippi, he first learned to play guitar from another bluesman from the area, Henry Stuckey. His guitar playing is noted for its dark, minor sound, played in an open D-minor tuning with an intricate fingerpicking technique. James first recorded for Paramount Records in 1931, but these recordings sold poorly due to the Great Depression, and he drifted into obscurity.

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Scott Joplin

 Scott Joplin wrote the "Maple Leaf Rag" around 1897, in honor of the Maple Leaf Club, a black social club that existed briefly during the late 1890s in Sedalia, Missouri. Shortly after its completion, Joplin told fellow ragtime composer Arthur Marshall that "the Maple Leaf will make me King of ragtime composers". The sheet music was published in September 1899 by John Stark & Son after Joplin submitted the rag to three other publishers.

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John Lee Hooker

 "Boogie Chillen'" (also sometimes listed as "Boogie Chillun'") is an electric blues song written by John Lee Hooker. It is considered one of the genre's most important and influential recordings for the forthcoming rock 'n' roll. Hooker moved to Detroit in 1943, attracted by well-paying factory work. Taking up residence in Detroit's east side, he found a position as a janitor at Chrysler.

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FourChord
C chord
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John Lee Hooker

Hooker began his life as the son of a sharecropper, William Hooker, and rose to prominence performing his own unique style of what was originally closest to Delta blues. He developed a 'talking blues' style that was his trademark. Though similar to the early Delta blues, his music was metrically free. John Lee Hooker could be said to embody his own unique genre of the blues, often incorporating the boogie-woogie piano style and a driving rhythm into his masterful and idiosyncratic blues guitar and singing.

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A7
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Mississippi_JohnHurt

 Raised in Avalon, Mississippi, he learned to play guitar at age 9. He spent much of his youth playing old time music for friends and dances,

Date: 
Aug 6 2009 (All day)
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