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A common type of three-chord song is the simple twelve-bar blues used in blues and rock and roll. Typically, the three chords used are the chords on the tonic , subdominant , and dominant ( scale degrees I, IV and V): in the key of C, these would be the C, F and G chords.
The song was co-written by singer David Coverdale and guitarist Micky Moody, who was the only original member, besides Coverdale, left in the band.Moody was possibly the one that influenced the bluesy style of "Slow An' Easy"; most of the material on Slide It In took influence from contemporary glam metal in terms of sound, in contrast to the earlier, blues rock based albums of the band.
B.B. King and Muddy Waters, with the most standards on the charts at five each, [8] used electric blues-ensemble arrangements. Music journalist Richie Unterberger commented on the adaptability of blues: "From its inception, the blues has always responded to developments in popular music as a whole: the use of guitar and piano in American folk ...
Riff-driven songs are largely a product of jazz, blues, and post-blues era music (rock and pop). [10] The musical goal of riff-driven songs is akin to the classical continuo effect, but raised to much higher importance (in fact, the repeated riff is used to anchor the song in the ears of the listener). The riff/continuo is brought to the ...
In music, an eight-bar blues is a common blues chord progression. Music writers have described it as "the second most common blues form" [1] being "common to folk, rock, and jazz forms of the blues". [2] It is often notated in 4 4 or 12 8 time with eight bars to the verse.
"Driftin' Blues" or "Drifting Blues" is a blues standard, recorded by Johnny Moore's Three Blazers in 1945. The song is a slow blues and features Charles Brown 's smooth, soulful vocals and piano. It was one of the biggest blues hits of the 1940s and "helped define the burgeoning postwar West Coast blues style". [ 1 ] "
Dominant 7th chords are generally used throughout a blues progression. The addition of dominant 7th chords as well as the inclusion of other types of 7th chords (i.e. minor and diminished 7ths) are often used just before a change, and more changes can be added. A more complicated example might look like this, where "7" indicates a seventh chord: