Midnight rambler

[ceefax]

Hi

Pretty new to playing the blues here, not guitar just the blues. I'm trying to deconstruct 'Midnight Rambler' and wondered what category of blues it fits under. I can't fit it into a standard pattern like 12 bar blues from listening to it. I'm guessing it must fit into some blues pattern or a style of blues i can investigate further to find the basis of the song.

any help appreciated.

pete

[Jerry Dylan]

Hi
some blues is just a riff that gets reapeated like "Midnight Rambler" or "Smokestack Lighting." In Midnight Rambler there is an intro riff, a rock and roll part, and a rubato part with no strict tempo or feel and these are just put around the song. Not all blues has to be a 12 or 8 bar form although the 12 bar form is extremely common.

Hope this helped

[Neal Walter]

Hi Pete,

Anders is our blues king and best to answer this question. I'm going to copy this to his forum to see what he says.

[ceefax]

thanks for the starting points