Topic: Good Time Boogie - Willie Trice

[Slack]

I can't help but notice that someone is often requesting Willie Trice's 'Good Time Boogie' (Gary is that you?) -- which is an infectious little ditty that I really like alot too.  One of those pieces where you could just sit for a hour and play it.

Last time I heard it I picked up my guitar and figured out the frist E part and the up/down the neck part which was easy  - but the 2nd E part, the boogie, would need some careful listening a bit more time.

If there are others interested in figuring this out - I'd be happy to post enough of the song in an attached mp3 in order to figure out all three parts ....

cheers,
slack

[a2tom]

Sure, I'd love to have a go at it. 

tom

[boots]

Slack, I'll own up to a few requests. It is contageous.

Boots

[Slack]

Great Tom, I'll post this evening.

Boots, alrighty - we'll figure it out -- just in case you ever dig that guitar out of the closet.

[NotRevGDavis]

I can't help but notice that someone is often requesting Willie Trice's 'Good Time Boogie' (Gary is that you?) -- which is an infectious little ditty that I really like alot too.

Why yes it is thank you.

I'd really like to learn "Good Time Boogie" but I haven't advanced far enough to transcribe songs myself yet.

I picked up the CD right after you put Willie on the Juke and it is in heavy rotation in the truck with Lil' Son Jackson, Frank Hovington, Big Joe Williams and the JSP "Texas Blues" collection. All artists I "discovered" here at Weenie Campbell.

Willie Trice has that sound kinda like Scott Dunbar they might be playin' the blues but they sound like they are just having way too much fun doin' it...

Gary

[Slack]

I'd really like to learn "Good Time Boogie" but I haven't advanced far enough to transcribe songs myself yet.

I think we can do this one pretty easily (famous last words) - 3 parts, in E - a great exercise in pinching.

I picked up the CD right after you put Willie on the Juke and it is in heavy rotation in the truck with Lil' Son Jackson, Frank Hovington, Big Joe Williams and the JSP "Texas Blues" collection. All artists I "discovered" here at Weenie Campbell.

Yea man, great rotation!

cheers,

[Slack]

Sure, I'd love to have a go at it. 

tom

OK, here you go....  I trimmed it down a bit form 5:40 to 4:20 to get under the 800K limit - but I think the splice was very good!

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[NotRevGDavis]

Can't seem to get it to download.

[Slack]

Gary, I thought you picked up the CD somewhere?

Since it is only 3 parts and they are repetitive patterns - I thought I might try my hand at tabbing it out... if I can stop playing it long enough.  Tom, what Tab program do you use?

[NotRevGDavis]

I have the CD I thought it might be something you were playing. At least now I can try to figure out why I can't download.
Thanks

[a2tom]

I suspect you may have it done before I get to even pick up a guitar with it!  There are really only about three phrases in the whole song it would seem, and I may not get to do anything until the weekend at this point (work and family coming into town).

My tab program, such as it is, is Microsoft Word.  I just set up a little template with dashes and then just type numbers over the dashese where needed.  I find that a lot easier than any tab editor I've tried (but I must say, I haven't tried much since I don't actually create tab too often...).  I you wanted I could upload the Word template file, but you could recreate it in a lick.

tom

[Slack]

I have the CD I thought it might be something you were playing. At least now I can try to figure out why I can't download.
Thanks

No, it is Willy Trice - with about a minute and a half trimmed.  Strange - can you donwload other files on the iste?

I suspect you may have it done before I get to even pick up a guitar with it!  There are really only about three phrases in the whole song it would seem, and I may not get to do anything until the weekend at this point (work and family coming into town).

Don't count on it!  I've got a ton of stuff piled up too.  It may be this weekend for me to.  Yes, it is 3 simple phrases - so I thought it would be a quicky -- once you can sit right down to it that is.

Your template looks so neat, I thought it was a commercial program. I can certainly copy and paste it.   Probably be much easier just to sit down with a recorder and go through the parts - so I may end up doing that... ha!

Cheers,
slack

[Slack]

Easier to tab than to record.  I'm not sure I've ever tabbed anything, so someone keep me honest (and this is the kind of tabbing project to have!  )  The parts are in opposite order of play.




Good Time Boogie

Main Lick
E
   chord   line                                          
  |       |       |       |       |       |           
|-------------------------------|---------
|---------0-----0---------------|--------
|---------------------2--h1?-(1)|-----
|------------2--------2-------2-|--------
|-2---4-------------------------|---------
|---------0-------0-------0-----|--------
  |       |       |       |       |       |     

Alternate Lick
E
   chord   line                                          
  |       |       |       |       |       |     
|---------0-----0---------0-----|--------
|-0---2--------(0)----2---------|-------
|-----------(1)-------------(1)-|--------
|-----2------2--------2------2--|-------
|-------------------------------|---------
|-0-------0-------0-------0-----|-------
  |       |       |       |       |       |     



Break
   chord   line                                          
  |       |       |       |       |       |       |       |       |       |       |       |       |       |     
|s4--------------s7-------------|-9-------12------9-------7-----|s4--s4--s4--s4---0------
|-------------------------------|-------------------------------|-------------------------------|
|s4----------4---s7----------7--|-9-------12------9-------7-----|s4--s4--s4--s4-----(1)----|
|-------------------------------|-------------------------------|--------------------2----------|
|-------------------------------|-------------------------------|-------------------------------|
|-------------------------------|-------------------------------|-----------------0-------------|
  |       |       |       |       |       |       |       |       |       |       |       |       |       |     



My kinda song - almost immediate gratification. What helps propells the song is his talking to the 'dancers' while playing -  and creating a little tension by yelling yaw!  ...love it...  didn't send anytime on the "break" part - he does it a little differently in different parts of the song, throwing in some bass.

Cheers,

[a2tom]

See, told you you'd have it well before I could even get to try to play it!  I got to it today - my family left early since we are expecting SNOW.  Argh.

Anway, you've basically got it there, Slack, not surprisingly .  I have attached a RTF and PDF (same thing, different file format) of what I hope will be a more "complete" tab.  It really is a great little boogie, and great to learn on - it seemed worth the time to write it out in enough detail to give an idea how to play the whole tune, even for a beginner.  The ending is in there too. 

My tab is basically the same as yours Slack, but with a couple of little changes - check em out, tell me I'm a fool.  A couple of those are to try to give a more complete sense of how to actually play it.  There are some really interesting shifting tones that are going on behind the picked notes that are really important to the feel.  They also give an idea of how to finger it.  I have a bunch of comments  I put in there (for myself as much as anyone) - take a read if you are interested - the A chord feel is the most important issue.  May be obvious to some, wasn't to me!

When I get a chance I'll try record my tab so you can judge whether it is correct - don't expect me to play it as relentlesly fast as Trice, though!

tom

[Slack]

Hi Tom, thanks for taking the time to do this - you certainly have alot more patience than I!

Having only read through your notes - and not sure I agree with them all - I'll find some time to sit down and listen again.  Maybe I'll do a little recording too and we could contrast the slackerly minimalist style with the very thorough style. 

Fun tune, Uh?  -- I must remember to keep working on it - and talking to the dancers on top.

Cheers,
slack