Chris Thile transcription - Farewall Blues

[Jesper]

Have some fun with this amazing Chris Thile solo.

Have a nice weekend!
- Jesper Rübner-Petersen



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[Jesper]

That's the one:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nsoW5CnPNJY

[Willie Poole]

That is one of my favorite songs, I just don`t put in all of the notes that Chris puts in, I learned the song from Flatt and Scruggs,

I had heard that Earl adapted it from some classical song....Maybe I will look it up just see....

[doc holiday]

That is one of my favorite songs, I just don`t put in all of the notes that Chris puts in, I learned the song from Flatt and Scruggs,

I had heard that Earl adapted it from some classical song....Maybe I will look it up just see....


Farewell Blues is a common jazz standard, apparently written in 1922....~o)

[Willie Poole]

Thanks Doc, The point I was trying to make is that it isn`t a song that Earl Scruggs wrote like a lot of people believed.....

I have a friend that was learning to play the banjo and she moved to California and I told her that when I seen her at a festival the next time she had better be able to play "Farewell Blues", she couldn`t though but she did give it a good try...

Willie

[CavScout]

Thx Jesper! And btw...I love your book. Really a big help in learning improv.

[CES]

Thanks, Jesper!

And, I CAN't put in all the notes that Chris does, lol...at least not yet!!

[ralph johansson]

Farewell Blues is a common jazz standard, apparently written in 1922....~o)

Recorded by many bands, but originally done by the New Orleans Rhythm Kings, like Bugle Call Rag and Milenburg Joys (although Bill Monroe learned his version from the Hoosier Hotshots). I insist on hearing a dim chord in the 12th bar, and that's what I hear in Clayton McMichen's version from 1937 (in the key of B flat; bluegrassers do it in C).