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Hi everyone, The song of the week is 'A Memory Of You' in the key of A. Recordings Jim & Jesse - key of A https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ebC9IQNkj7E Bobby Hicks and Friends - key of B https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WLppdfvyW1c Jason Homey & The Snake River Boys - key of A A memory of you - Jason Homey and the Snake River Boys - YouTube Jam Videos Here are 4 youtube jam videos I have made for A Memory Of You. In the one listed first, I am on guitar, playing the song in the key of A. Jason’s YouTube Links – Alphabetical Listing – Parisology (cyberplasm.com) Progression 'A Memory Of You' uses the same chord progression as 'Bury Me Beneath The Willow', 'I'm Waiting To Hear You Call Me Darling', 'Wreck Of The Old '97', and hundreds of other Bluegrass and Country songs. 1144 1155 1144 1511 (Prog. V7 on the basic chord progressions handout) Melody Singers should observe that the melody for the chorus differs from the melody of the verses in measures 2 through 5. In these 4 measures, where the verse melody descends, the chorus melody ascends, and vice versa. In the attachments, I have given the melody for the chorus rather than for the verses, because it feels to me more instinctive to use the chorus melody of 'A Memory Of You' as the point of reference for creating melody-based breaks, even though with most songs, one would typically use the melody for the verses rather than the melody for the chorus as the point of reference for creating melody based breaks when the chorus and verse melodies differ from each other. Pickup Notes for Breaks When played in the key of A, the first (full) measure of the melody begins with a C# note. On the Jim & Jesse recording, Jesse uses the following three pickup notes to lead into the C# note to start his intro break on the mandolin: E, F#, A, played as quarter notes. (Compare this with the similar - key of B equivalent - but more elaborate pickup measure, used at the beginning of the banjo intro break on the Bobby Hicks and Friends live performance of A Memory Of You.) Other songs on the current song lists for the jam that, when played in the key of A, also have a C# as the first melody note in their first (full) measure, and for which this same pickup phrase will work well are: All The Good Times Are Past And Gone Beautiful Brown Eyes Before I Met You Blue Ridge Cabin Home I'll Fly Away Leaning On The Everlasting Arms My Home's Across The Blue Ridge Mountains Hand Me Down My Walking Cane I'll Still Write Your Name In The Sand Little Cabin Home On The Hill Red River Valley Will You Be Loving Another Man You Are My Sunshine Transposed to each of the 7 other Major keys that songs may be played in at the jam, the pickup phrase and the note it leads to become: key of G: D, E, G, leading to a B note key of Bb: F, G, Bb, leading to a D note key of B: F#, G#, B, leading to a D# note key of C: G, A. C, leading to an E note key of D A. B. D, leading to an F# note key of E: B, C#, E, leading to a G# note key of F: C, D, F, leading to an A note Fill-in Licks Just like in our previous song of the week 'Foggy Mountain Top', the third measure of lines 2 and 4 of each verse and chorus of A Memory Of You has only one syllable in it, which is sung at the beginning of the measure. And, the measure that follows begins with a rest. During these kinds of 'dead spaces' within the melody of a song, it is very common for a fill-in lick to be played on one or more of the instruments. In the attachments, I have included a chart of simple A chord (the 1 chord when in the key of A) and E chord (the 5 chord when in the key of A) fill-in licks for fiddle, mandolin, banjo, and guitar, (For banjo and guitar, these are written as G and D fill-ins rather than as A and E fill-ins, since the most common way for bluegrass banjo and guitar players to play in the key of A is to capo the second fret and then play as if in the key of G.) The E (or 5 chord) fill-ins are intended for measure 3 through to the first quarter of measure 4 of line 2 of the progression, and the A (or 1 chord) fill-ins are intended for measure 3 through to the first quarter of measure 4 of line 4 of the progression. The 'A' licks are also good to use in measures 3 to 4 of line 4 of your breaks. The E licks given for fiddle and mandolin will work in measures 3 to 4 of line 2 in fiddle and mandolin breaks, but the 'E' (written as D) licks given for banjo and guitar are not well suited for use in banjo and guitar breaks. On the chart of fill-in licks, notes in parentheses are not really part of the fill-in lick proper and may be omitted if they are inconvenient to get into from what you were doing immediately before the fill-in measures begin. For instance, if you are playing chop chords on the fiddle or mandolin right up to the point where the fill-in measure starts, you may wish to substitute a quarter note rest in place of the quarter note in parentheses that occurs at the beginning of the fill-in lick measure. Likewise, the notes you play in a fiddle or mandolin break in measure 2 of line 2 may lead you more naturally to play a B note at the beginning of the next measure rather than an E note, for the B note is the melody note. When this happens, just substitute the B note in place of the E note in the E fill-in lick shown in parentheses on the chart. Song List 20 songs were played at last night's jam: 12 from the main list, 6 from the additional songs list, and 2 that are on neither list: Beautiful Brown Eyes - G Blue Ridge Cabin Home - A Boil The Cabbage Down - A Cripple Creek - A Foggy Mountain Top - G I'll Fly Away - G Little Birdie - Bb A Memory Of You - A My Home's Across The Blue Ridge Mountains - G Shortnin' Bread - G Soldier's Joy - D Way Down Town - E Angeline The Baker - D Before I Met You - A In The Pines - E Liberty - D Sweetheart You Done Me Wrong - E This Land Is Your Land - G Cryin' Holy - G I'm Waiting To Hear You Call Me Darling - E Happy Pickin', Jason Sheet Music:
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