Chords for Blues Guitar History Lesson - Stormy Monday - T-Bone Walker, Allman Brothers, and Buddy Guy
Tempo:
65.1 bpm
Chords used:
B
D
Gm
C
Dm
Tuning:Standard Tuning (EADGBE)Capo:+0fret
Start Jamming...
Hi, this is David Hamburger here for True Fire, and I'm going to spend a little time right now just
explaining the difference between these three different ways to play Stormy Monday, to play this blues.
The
the original T-Bone Walker version was in A flat.
[Gb] T-Bone Walker played with lots of horn players and lots of jazz musicians who like flat [F] keys.
And the Bobby Bland version from 1962 is also in A flat with Wayne Bennett on guitar.
The Allman Brothers version from the At Fillmore East record is
in the key of G, which is sort of the [Ab] most
popular version at this point, or the version that everybody tends to learn first.
We're going to start at the beginning with T-Bone and [G] go through a little bit of the
Bobby [Ab] Bland, Wayne Bennett version, and then end up with the Allman Brothers stuff.
And then I'll maybe point out a few other [D] kinds of rhythm licks you can use that aren't on any of those recordings.
I'm [Abm] coming to you live today from my studio [Bb] in Austin.
I hope you can appreciate the [Ab] incredibly high
production values.
No expense has been spared to
give you that sort of pale yellow [D] wall color and the heavy shadows under my glasses from the
40 watt lamp over my desk.
Yeah, so anyway, let's let's get rolling.
[B] I've got a rhythm track all cued up and
I'll be using this ninth chord to begin with.
[Bm] [B] These two fingers on the
second fret [Bm] of the fifth string and the second fret of the [F] fourth string and then
ring finger third fret of the fourth of the
[B] Wait a second.
[Bm] Second fret of the fifth string, second [F] fret of the third string, third fret [D] of the fourth string,
[Gm] third fret of the second string.
[B] There's the basic T-Bone chord.
It's slid around
[A] and just roll your pinky over to get that high note.
[Gm] Then a James Brown kind of ninth [E] chord.
[Abm] [B] Those are the main [N] chords in the T-Bone [Am] version.
[Ab] And then we'll go walking [A] up
[D] [E] for the Wayne Bennett version and then walk all the way up and back [A] down
to an A minor 7
[Cm] to a C minor 7
[Dm] for the Allman Brothers version.
[N] I'll just play all three of them in a row with some running commentary and you can check it out.
And here comes the T-Bone version.
So just
[G] [Gm] [C] the four chord,
[Dm] back to the one [Ab] chord,
[Bb] [Abm]
[C] four chord,
[Gm] slide to top,
[B]
[D] [G]
[D] five chord,
[Gm] and up to the [C] four chord.
[B] [Gm] [B] [D] Here's the Wayne Bennett involving [Dm] Lambert.
Same kind of thing
[C]
[Dm] [Gb] [Dm] That's part of the song at this point.
Wayne Bennett does it just [C] like T-Bone does it pretty much.
[Gm]
[B] Walk [Am] up A minor 7,
[Bm] B minor 7, B [Bbm] flat minor 7, then they go straight to the [D] 5,
D9.
[Abm] We're just going to come [Gm] out
straight up blues here.
[B] [Gm] [B] [D] Here's the Allman Brothers
[B] [F] [Gm] half-stepping to the C chord.
[B] [Bb] Same move, [Dm] just lasted all the way
[Em] 1947 [C] to
1971.
That's Allman's thing right there.
[D] More T-Bone than Wayne Bennett.
[Am] Walking up A minor 7,
[Bm] B minor, [Bbm] B flat minor, [Am] A minor,
[Bb] [Cm] A C minor.
[B] [C] [B] [D]
explaining the difference between these three different ways to play Stormy Monday, to play this blues.
The
the original T-Bone Walker version was in A flat.
[Gb] T-Bone Walker played with lots of horn players and lots of jazz musicians who like flat [F] keys.
And the Bobby Bland version from 1962 is also in A flat with Wayne Bennett on guitar.
The Allman Brothers version from the At Fillmore East record is
in the key of G, which is sort of the [Ab] most
popular version at this point, or the version that everybody tends to learn first.
We're going to start at the beginning with T-Bone and [G] go through a little bit of the
Bobby [Ab] Bland, Wayne Bennett version, and then end up with the Allman Brothers stuff.
And then I'll maybe point out a few other [D] kinds of rhythm licks you can use that aren't on any of those recordings.
I'm [Abm] coming to you live today from my studio [Bb] in Austin.
I hope you can appreciate the [Ab] incredibly high
production values.
No expense has been spared to
give you that sort of pale yellow [D] wall color and the heavy shadows under my glasses from the
40 watt lamp over my desk.
Yeah, so anyway, let's let's get rolling.
[B] I've got a rhythm track all cued up and
I'll be using this ninth chord to begin with.
[Bm] [B] These two fingers on the
second fret [Bm] of the fifth string and the second fret of the [F] fourth string and then
ring finger third fret of the fourth of the
[B] Wait a second.
[Bm] Second fret of the fifth string, second [F] fret of the third string, third fret [D] of the fourth string,
[Gm] third fret of the second string.
[B] There's the basic T-Bone chord.
It's slid around
[A] and just roll your pinky over to get that high note.
[Gm] Then a James Brown kind of ninth [E] chord.
[Abm] [B] Those are the main [N] chords in the T-Bone [Am] version.
[Ab] And then we'll go walking [A] up
[D] [E] for the Wayne Bennett version and then walk all the way up and back [A] down
to an A minor 7
[Cm] to a C minor 7
[Dm] for the Allman Brothers version.
[N] I'll just play all three of them in a row with some running commentary and you can check it out.
And here comes the T-Bone version.
So just
[G] [Gm] [C] the four chord,
[Dm] back to the one [Ab] chord,
[Bb] [Abm]
[C] four chord,
[Gm] slide to top,
[B]
[D] [G]
[D] five chord,
[Gm] and up to the [C] four chord.
[B] [Gm] [B] [D] Here's the Wayne Bennett involving [Dm] Lambert.
Same kind of thing
[C]
[Dm] [Gb] [Dm] That's part of the song at this point.
Wayne Bennett does it just [C] like T-Bone does it pretty much.
[Gm]
[B] Walk [Am] up A minor 7,
[Bm] B minor 7, B [Bbm] flat minor 7, then they go straight to the [D] 5,
D9.
[Abm] We're just going to come [Gm] out
straight up blues here.
[B] [Gm] [B] [D] Here's the Allman Brothers
[B] [F] [Gm] half-stepping to the C chord.
[B] [Bb] Same move, [Dm] just lasted all the way
[Em] 1947 [C] to
1971.
That's Allman's thing right there.
[D] More T-Bone than Wayne Bennett.
[Am] Walking up A minor 7,
[Bm] B minor, [Bbm] B flat minor, [Am] A minor,
[Bb] [Cm] A C minor.
[B] [C] [B] [D]
Key:
B
D
Gm
C
Dm
B
D
Gm
Hi, this is David Hamburger here for True Fire, and I'm going to spend a little time right now just
explaining the difference between these three different ways to play Stormy Monday, to play this blues.
The
the original T-Bone Walker version was in A flat.
[Gb] T-Bone Walker played with lots of horn players and lots of jazz musicians who like flat [F] keys.
And the Bobby Bland version from 1962 is also in A flat with Wayne Bennett on guitar.
The Allman Brothers version from the At Fillmore East record is _
in the key of G, which is sort of the [Ab] most
popular version at this point, or the version that everybody tends to learn first.
We're going to start at the beginning with T-Bone and [G] go through a little bit of the
Bobby [Ab] Bland, Wayne Bennett version, and then end up with the Allman Brothers stuff.
And then I'll maybe point out a few other [D] kinds of rhythm licks you can use that aren't on any of those recordings.
I'm [Abm] coming to you live today from my studio [Bb] in Austin.
I hope you can appreciate the [Ab] incredibly high
production values.
No expense has been spared to
give you that sort of pale yellow [D] wall color and the heavy shadows under my glasses from the
40 watt lamp over my desk.
Yeah, so anyway, let's let's get rolling.
[B] I've got a rhythm track all cued up and
I'll be using this ninth chord to begin with.
_ _ [Bm] [B] These two fingers on the
second fret [Bm] of the fifth string and the second fret of the [F] fourth string and then
ring finger third fret of the fourth of the
[B] Wait a second.
[Bm] Second fret of the fifth string, second [F] fret of the third string, third fret [D] of the fourth string, _ _
[Gm] third fret of the second string.
[B] There's the basic T-Bone chord.
It's slid around
[A] and just roll your pinky over to get that high note.
_ [Gm] Then a James Brown kind of ninth [E] chord.
_ [Abm] _ _ _ [B] Those are the main [N] chords in the T-Bone [Am] version.
[Ab] And then we'll go walking [A] up _
_ [D] _ [E] for the Wayne Bennett version and then walk all the way up and back [A] down
to an A minor 7
[Cm] to a C minor 7
[Dm] for the Allman Brothers version.
[N] I'll just play all three of them in a row with some running commentary and you can check it out. _ _ _ _
_ _ _ And here comes the T-Bone version.
So just _
_ [G] _ _ [Gm] _ [C] the four chord, _
[Dm] back to the one [Ab] chord,
_ [Bb] _ _ [Abm] _ _
[C] four chord,
_ [Gm] slide to top,
_ [B] _
_ _ _ _ [D] _ _ [G] _ _
[D] five chord,
[Gm] and up to the [C] four chord. _ _
[B] _ _ [Gm] _ _ [B] _ [D] Here's the Wayne Bennett involving [Dm] Lambert.
Same kind of thing
_ [C] _ _ _ _
[Dm] _ _ [Gb] _ [Dm] That's part of the song at this point. _
Wayne Bennett does it just [C] like T-Bone does it pretty much.
[Gm] _ _ _ _ _
[B] Walk [Am] up A minor 7,
[Bm] B minor 7, B [Bbm] flat minor 7, then they go straight to the [D] 5,
D9.
[Abm] We're just going to come [Gm] out
straight up blues here.
[B] _ _ [Gm] _ _ [B] _ [D] Here's the Allman Brothers
[B] _ _ _ [F] _ [Gm] half-stepping to the C chord. _
[B] _ _ [Bb] Same move, [Dm] just lasted all the way
[Em] 1947 [C] to
1971.
_ _ That's Allman's thing right there.
[D] More T-Bone than Wayne Bennett.
[Am] Walking up A minor 7,
[Bm] B minor, [Bbm] B flat minor, [Am] A minor,
_ [Bb] [Cm] A C minor. _ _
[B] _ _ [C] _ _ [B] _ _ [D] _ _
explaining the difference between these three different ways to play Stormy Monday, to play this blues.
The
the original T-Bone Walker version was in A flat.
[Gb] T-Bone Walker played with lots of horn players and lots of jazz musicians who like flat [F] keys.
And the Bobby Bland version from 1962 is also in A flat with Wayne Bennett on guitar.
The Allman Brothers version from the At Fillmore East record is _
in the key of G, which is sort of the [Ab] most
popular version at this point, or the version that everybody tends to learn first.
We're going to start at the beginning with T-Bone and [G] go through a little bit of the
Bobby [Ab] Bland, Wayne Bennett version, and then end up with the Allman Brothers stuff.
And then I'll maybe point out a few other [D] kinds of rhythm licks you can use that aren't on any of those recordings.
I'm [Abm] coming to you live today from my studio [Bb] in Austin.
I hope you can appreciate the [Ab] incredibly high
production values.
No expense has been spared to
give you that sort of pale yellow [D] wall color and the heavy shadows under my glasses from the
40 watt lamp over my desk.
Yeah, so anyway, let's let's get rolling.
[B] I've got a rhythm track all cued up and
I'll be using this ninth chord to begin with.
_ _ [Bm] [B] These two fingers on the
second fret [Bm] of the fifth string and the second fret of the [F] fourth string and then
ring finger third fret of the fourth of the
[B] Wait a second.
[Bm] Second fret of the fifth string, second [F] fret of the third string, third fret [D] of the fourth string, _ _
[Gm] third fret of the second string.
[B] There's the basic T-Bone chord.
It's slid around
[A] and just roll your pinky over to get that high note.
_ [Gm] Then a James Brown kind of ninth [E] chord.
_ [Abm] _ _ _ [B] Those are the main [N] chords in the T-Bone [Am] version.
[Ab] And then we'll go walking [A] up _
_ [D] _ [E] for the Wayne Bennett version and then walk all the way up and back [A] down
to an A minor 7
[Cm] to a C minor 7
[Dm] for the Allman Brothers version.
[N] I'll just play all three of them in a row with some running commentary and you can check it out. _ _ _ _
_ _ _ And here comes the T-Bone version.
So just _
_ [G] _ _ [Gm] _ [C] the four chord, _
[Dm] back to the one [Ab] chord,
_ [Bb] _ _ [Abm] _ _
[C] four chord,
_ [Gm] slide to top,
_ [B] _
_ _ _ _ [D] _ _ [G] _ _
[D] five chord,
[Gm] and up to the [C] four chord. _ _
[B] _ _ [Gm] _ _ [B] _ [D] Here's the Wayne Bennett involving [Dm] Lambert.
Same kind of thing
_ [C] _ _ _ _
[Dm] _ _ [Gb] _ [Dm] That's part of the song at this point. _
Wayne Bennett does it just [C] like T-Bone does it pretty much.
[Gm] _ _ _ _ _
[B] Walk [Am] up A minor 7,
[Bm] B minor 7, B [Bbm] flat minor 7, then they go straight to the [D] 5,
D9.
[Abm] We're just going to come [Gm] out
straight up blues here.
[B] _ _ [Gm] _ _ [B] _ [D] Here's the Allman Brothers
[B] _ _ _ [F] _ [Gm] half-stepping to the C chord. _
[B] _ _ [Bb] Same move, [Dm] just lasted all the way
[Em] 1947 [C] to
1971.
_ _ That's Allman's thing right there.
[D] More T-Bone than Wayne Bennett.
[Am] Walking up A minor 7,
[Bm] B minor, [Bbm] B flat minor, [Am] A minor,
_ [Bb] [Cm] A C minor. _ _
[B] _ _ [C] _ _ [B] _ _ [D] _ _