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Let Steve James teach you to play and
sing the Delta blues classic 'Crow Jane.'
Take this lesson in Delta blues guitar by following the guitar
tab and lyrics over the next 4 pages. To hear Steve James play and
sing, you need the RealPlayer plug-in. Enjoy your lesson, and check
out Steve's instructional book/CD, Roots and Blues Fingerstyle
Guitar.
| Introduction and Tune-up
CROW JANE
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a simple arrangement from Nehemiah "Skip" James, who otherwise
created some of the most complex country blues guitar music
ever recorded. Other early blues virtuosos inspired crews
of soundalikes but, at his 1931 studio debut, Skip James made
music so bleak and powerful that only creatures like Robert
Johnson would go anywhere near it.
When he returned to the studio in 1964, James
temporarily abandoned his preferred open E-minor mode (from
low to high, E B E G B E) to perform "Crow Jane" in standard
tuning. It's an oft-recorded number, a precursor to songs
like "Key to the Highway," but James puts a messianic twist
on it that makes his version my favorite.
Here are the chord positions used:
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| The E chord shape used in bar 1 should be familiar.
It's followed by a second inversion B7 shape that descends to
a similar A7 and into the loping E vamp in the fifth bar. The
B7-E changes in the final bars involve a little variation in
the hammered thirds that occur all over the place (open third
string to the first fret on the E chord, open fourth string
to first fret on the B7, etc.). The lyrics are traditional boy-kills-girl,
but with a Jamesian edge. |
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说明
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乐谱
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Slow no vocals
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Faster and with vocals
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