Stormy Weather Taught by Pat Donohue Part 2/3
But there's a turn around in between and this will be a good time maybe to talk about the form of this song and many other swing tunes and they call it an A, A, B, A song forum. And that is the part that I just played. We call that the A part. There's two of those and they repeat. So, that’s A, A and then there's the bridge part which is the B and then there's another A part that finishes off the whole song structure, so that’s why they call it A, A, B, A.
And what I just did is run you through the first A and then I'm going to go into the second A now but in between the first and the second A and all these tunes including this one is a type of a turnaround and there's lots of different ways to play turnarounds, but the one that I’ll be using here is just A to F# minor, to B minor seventh, to E seventh and that brings us into the next stage. So, I’ll take it from Keeps Raining All the Time and then into the next A part.
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That’s what those four chords were A, F# minor, B minor seventh and E seventh, back to the A part.
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Now this song, this repeats the second time. Now we’re going to the bridge, the B part and that goes to the key of D. It's really not the key of D, it's still in the key of A but we’re going to a D chord. And now playing it with this two, my pinky and ring finger here on the second two strings in my index finger up here, and playing a D base note. And the way I fingers pick it and get the melody in is to go like this. Pinch on these three fingers, the right hand. And the index finger of my left hand goes to the fourth fret, so we’ve got pinch, pinch and this pinky moves over to get the melody here.
I'm going to a D sharp diminished chord, which is played like this. With my right hand, I'm only playing the fifth, third, second and first strings. And with my left hand, I'm borrowing here at the fifth fret over this last three, my pinky is here and this finger is over here on the fifth string sixth fret. Remember to put this base note in there then to an A base note. So, the whole move is—and you do that three times. Now, on the third time through, there is a nice little chromatic era, a rather scale wise base motion that happens against the melody which goes.
And that is from here, that’s an A major chord with this E note in the base, then we’re going to a D ninth chord and then to an A chord with the third on the base here. So, the base is going, and the way it works out under the melody is—and what that was, is this is an A major, this is an A major up here, with an A base. Going to a C sharp seventh chord and I'm playing on that C sharp seventh chord, I'm playing the sixth string, the third string and the first string as a pinch. And then I'm hitting this melody note up here at the 12th fret of the B string and then going to an F sharp minor.
And then this little series of chords is B7th suspended so B7th. This is just a matter of one note changing. It's a bar at the seventh fret of the index finger and this finger here at the ninth fret of the G string. Everything else rings out except for this one note. I think that’s what makes it sound good. To an E7th which I play up here like a C7th on the way up here at the seventh, sixth and fifth frets, but you could also play it down here because I'm getting ready to go into the A part again which of course starts on here. So at the end of the bridge is—and then it goes back to the A part which we already started. So, that’s a pretty much of the highlights here. And now, let's do it together with the split screen.
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