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Night Train Tab by James Brown

Night Train tab by James Brown

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James Brown - Night Train

12-bar blues kind of progression doing this most of the way through - they play it fast.

             A                              D                        E
e------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|
B------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|
G--------------------------------------7----5--4---------------9------7---6----------------|
D-------7-----5---4----------------------7--------7--4-----------9-----------9---6---------|
A---------7----------7---4-----------5-----------------------7-----------------------------|
E-----5------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AckXD0Rl6vw

"Night Train" has a long and complicated history. The piece's opening riff was first recorded in 1940 by a small
group led by Duke Ellington sideman Johnny Hodges under the title "That's the Blues, Old Man". Ellington used
the same riff as the opening and closing theme of a longer-form composition, "Happy-Go-Lucky Local", that was
itself one of four parts of his Deep South Suite. Forrest was part of Ellington's band when it performed this
composition, which has a long tenor saxophone break in the middle."

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