At these gatherings the ragtime and blues boys could easily tell from what section of the country a man came, even going so far as to name the town, by his interpretation of a piece."[13]. Originally, piano players accompanied themselves by playing this bassline with their left hand. After the Carnegie Hall concerts, it was only natural for swing bands to incorporate the boogie-woogie beat into some of their music. [2] The concerts featured Big Joe Turner and Pete Johnson performing Turner's tribute to Johnson, "Roll 'Em Pete", as well as Meade Lux Lewis performing "Honky Tonk Train Blues" and Albert Ammons playing "Swanee River Boogie". Make sure you practice this line in different keys and areas of the fretboard, too. It melodically connects the 5th to the flat 7th. The boogie beat continued in country music through the end of the 20th century. Become a Member, Purchase StudyPacks, Buy Suggested Products or Donate. None of these sheet music or audio recording examples contain the musical elements that would identify them as boogie-woogie. The Charlie Daniels Band (whose earlier tune "The South's Gonna Do It Again" uses boogie-woogie influences) released "Boogie Woogie Fiddle Country Blues" in 1988, and three years later in 1991 Brooks & Dunn had a huge hit with "Boot Scootin' Boogie".[25]. A song titled "Tin Roof Blues" was published in 1923 by the Clarence Williams Publishing Company. Beginning with the formation of the Texas Western Railroad Company in Marshall, Texas, through the subsequent establishment in 1871 of the Texas and Pacific Railway company, which located its headquarters and shops there, Marshall was the only railroad hub in the Piney Woods of northeast Texas at the time the music developed. Compositional credit is given to Richard M. Jones. The Boogie-Woogie Exercise. Some of the players he heard were Dave Alexander, who recorded for Decca in 1937 as "Black Ivory King,"[9] and a piano player called Pine Top (not Pine Top Smith, who was not born until 1904, but possibly Pine Top Williams or Pine Top Hill. It has been suggested that this downturn in pitch reveals a possible New Orleans influence. The boogie-woogie style has a very strong bass pattern associated with it. Tennison states: "Given the account of Elliot Paul, and given that Lead Belly witnessed boogie-woogie in 1899 in the Arklatex; and given the North to South migration of the Thomas family; and given the Texas & Pacific headquarters in Marshall in the early 1870s; and given that Harrison County had the largest slave population in the state of Texas; and given the fact that the best-documented and largest-scale turpentine camps in Texas did not occur until after 1900 in Southeast Texas, it is most probable that boogie-woogie spread from Northeast to Southeast Texas, rather than from Southeast to Northeast Texas, or by having developed diffusely with an even density over all of the Piney Woods of East Texas. In this way the music got around—all through Texas—and eventually, of course, out of Texas. The most primitive of these left hand bass lines is the one that was called "the Marshall". [7] Jefferson may have heard the term from Huddie "Lead Belly" Ledbetter, who played frequently with Jefferson. In 1943, Morton Gould composed Boogie-Woogie Etude for classical pianist José Iturbi, who premiered and recorded it that year. And when I tell you to get it, I want you to Boogie Woogie! No. It was also crucial to the rapid migration of the musical style from the rural barrel house camps to the cities and towns served by the Texas and Pacific Railway Company. It sets the pulse. Bill Haley and the Saddlemen recorded two boogies in 1951. In sheet music literature prior to 1900, there are at least three examples of the word "boogie" in music titles in the archives of the Library of Congress. One notable country boogie from this period was the Delmore Brothers "Freight Train Boogie", considered to be part of the combined evolution of country music and blues towards rockabilly. Now when this new form of piano music came from Texas, it moved out towards Louisiana. More representative examples can be found in some of the songs of Western swing pioneer Bob Wills, and subsequent tradition-minded country artists such as Asleep at the Wheel, Merle Haggard, and George Strait. And all the Old-time Texans, black or white, are agreed that boogie piano players were first heard in the lumber and turpentine camps, where nobody was at home at all. report violation, StudyBass is a registered trademark of Leading Tone Media, LLC. The chord progressions are typically based on I–IV–V–I (with many formal variations of it, such as I/i–IV/iv–v/I, as well as chords that lead into these ones). This 100-year-old bassline is still around today because it outlines chord tones perfectly. Louis Jordan is famous jump blues musician. "Roll 'Em Pete" is now considered to be an early rock and roll song. I know most of you don’t plan to play this line in your band, but it’s essential to learn.