Re: We're Gonna Groove

[Tomislaw Czarnecki <tomislaw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi!

At 10:41 28.10.97 -0800, Daniel Sletten wrote:

>> Hear my baby comin' down the track [E-F#-G chords end this verse]
>> Betcha my baby's comin' back [E-D-A chords]
>> etc...
>Good question!  In fact, the way I play it, this is one of the coolest
>and most prevalent blues chords out there.  I'm not sure what it's called
>exactly, but it's a minor 7th with the 5th replaced with a 3rd.  Here's
>how to finger the one in E (which prolly sounds the BEST cause it has
>2 open roots):  low to high:  076780

It's E7+9 I think. Anyway, I was dangling it today and suddenly I realized
that We're Gonna Groove begins this way! So I began to work on that track.
It rocks, especially the version from Vancouver, 3/21/1970. 

>in.  I think Zep was known to play an occasional blues in E (!).  Here's
>the refs I could come up with on the spot:
>  The Lemon Song - after the rising riff, this chord is slammed twice.
>  Bring It On Home - it's the very last chord of the song, finishes the
>                     rising blues idiomatic ending riff.
>  How Many More Times - again, the last chord played in the song;
>                        its also the chord in "The Hunter" section.
>  We're Gonna Groove - that's four songs!  That's pretty good...

It's also in D&C from TSRTS...

>Learn it, use it, love it.   It is your friend.

To tell you the truth, I was a bit fed up with that chord... until today :)

>BTW - definitely don't play any F# or G chords if you're playing the WGG
riff.
>Play the above E chord, then do unison bends at the 5th and 8th positions. 

At 5th, *7th* and 8th in fact. Anyway, the chords instead of bending sound
very powerful... But you're right, bending is the best way to play that.

>PS - I'm no expert on theory, so if I messed up somewhere, please correct me.

Who cares about that? ;))))

"Bonzo had a German belly. He had eaten, well, three thousand bananas!" -
Robert Plant explaining Bonzo's collapse during Led Zeppelin show in
Nuremberg, 6/27/1980.

Tomislaw The Zephead (tomislaw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx)