Hi everyone,
The song of the week is 'Clinch Mountain Backstep' in the key of A. Recordings Ralph Stanley - key of A https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TcDtNcbcJ2Q Blue Highway - key of A https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WTEF5keaPhk Jam Videos Jason’s YouTube Links – Alphabetical Listing – Parisology (cyberplasm.com) Progression The chord progression for the A-Part is: 1115 1151 The chord progression for the B-Part is the same, except that there is an extra 'half-measure' of the '1' before the first '5'. If one is counting the beats in the first line of the B-Part in cut common time (2/2), one would count it as: 1,2,1,2,1,2,1,1,2. (On the sheet music attached here, I have written the first line of the B-Part as 3 measures in 2/2, followed by a measure in which the time signature changes to 1/2, followed by a measure that returns to 2/2.) Melody & Key Although the melody of Clinch Mountain Backstep consists only of the notes of the Am pentatonic scale, it is called at jams in A (Major) rather than Am because the '1' chord that is used in the chord progression for the song is an A Major Chord rather than an Am Chord ('1m'). To call Clinch Mountain Backstep in A Minor instead of in A (Major) at a jam would imply that 1m Chords are to be played in place of 1 Chords. In the attached melody sheet for Clinch Mountain Backstep, I have used the key signature for Am (no sharps or flats, same as the key signature for C Major, the Relative Major of Am) instead of the key signature for A Major (3 sharps) to avoid the need to write natural signs in nearly every measure. I hope that my doing this makes the sheet music easier to read than if I had used the key signature for A Major. The notes that make up the Minor Pentatonic Scale, or as I like to call it sometimes 'The Clinch Mountain Scale', are: 1, b3, 4, 5, b7 Key of A: A C D E G Key of G: G Bb C D F Key of D: D F G A C etc. Song List 16 songs were played at last night's jam: 12 from the main list, 2 from the additional songs list, and 2 that are on neither list: Clinch Mountain Backstep - A Forked Deer - D Gathering Flowers From The Hillside - G Leaning On The Everlasting Arms - A Lonesome Road Blues - G A Memory Of You - A Mountain Dew - A My Home's Across The Blue Ridge Mountains - G Nine Pound Hammer - B Way Down Town - E Will You Be Loving Another Man - B Worried Man Blues - G Red Wing - G Turkey In The Straw - G Head Over Heels - B Foggy Mountain Breakdown - G Happy Pickin', Jason Sheet music for Clinch Mountain Backstep: Clinch Mountain Backstep - Banjo tab Clinch Mountain Backstep - Guitar tab Clinch Mountain Backstep - Mandolin tab Clinch Mountain Backstep - Melody in A
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