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St. Louis Blues W. C. Handy Arranged by Chet Atkins Modified by Jack R. Baker From Galloping Guitar (Bear Family CD) Transcribed by Johan Sjolin (Oct.2002) Modified by Jack R. Baker sjoli Page 1 / 10 T A B 8 9 7 9 • 0 0 7 (7) 6 0 1 Sl 2 (0) 2 0 3 0 2 (0) 2 0 TablEdit Version Demo T A B 4 0 (1) 2 2 0 2 (1) 2 0 3 3 3 Po 0 2 Po 0 (1) 2 2 1 2 1 Sl 0 2 0 0 (0) 2 2 3 0 0 (0) 2 TablEdit Version Demo T A B 7 0 7 (6) 5 5 3 ¼ ¼ 0 0 (6) 5 0 0 0 (1) 2 2 0 2 (1) 2 0 3 0 0 2 • (1) 2 0 1 2 (1) 2 3 Sl TablEdit Version Demo
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St. Louis Blues W. C. Handy Arranged by Chet Atkins Modified by Jack R. Baker From Galloping Guitar (Bear Family CD)
Transcribed by Johan Sjolin (Oct.2002)Modified by Jack R. Baker
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In the book, accompanying the record I have, one can read that Chet recorded this version on may 16, 1952. There is a second version on"Stringin' along with Chet Atkins", wich has an introduction and more improvisations. If you don't have a guitar with a bigsby bar, you can getsome idéas on what to do instead from this version. For example, you can find a very good replacement for measures 32-33 of this tab.
The reason that I transcribed this version is that I wanted to practice Chet's thumbstyle on a tune that Chet played alone, and I had a tab ofthis version, done by T D Martin. However I realised that even tho the tab was OK it wasn´t exactly like Chet´s version (like I wanted), so Istarted doing my own transcription as good as I could ( wich doesn´t mean that all the notes are correct). This tab is the result of that work.I would like to thank Mr Martin for all the help I got from having his tab.
In the thumbpicking part of the tune: Play the downstem notes with the thumbpick.
To play the "dead" notes In measures 46-49 and 54-56, put your finger on the string without pushing it towards the fretboard. In all othermeasures the dead notes are notes muted by the right hand.
On some occasions the notes Chet plays with the thumbpick isn´t muted (see for example measures 52-53). It´s tempting to treat them as smallmistakes and neglect them (ie the fact that they´re not muted), but I didn´t. The reason isn´t that I´m not the one to say what is a mistakeor not (wich would be a good reason) instead it´s the fact that Mr Atkins claimes all mistakes to be intentional anyway, wich takes care of theproblem. (At least that´s what he say´s in his instructional video.)
I found it difficult to make the Bigsby bar bends sound like the recording. For example, in measures 16 and 17 Chet din´t bend the notes asmuch as a semitone as noted. In measures 32-33 and 40-41 the notes were like I wanted, but not the sound,so I inserted several tempochangesto try to make it sound better. This, however, has nothing to do with Chet´s playing. The complicated bend at the end of the tune sounds
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terrible. Normaly this would be an indication that the notes are wrong, but it doesn´t sound so bad when I play it on a guitar, so I don´t knowwhat to do about it. The conclusion of all this is: Listen to Chet´s recording, if you have it.
If you have any questions regarding the tab, feel free to send me an email.
