Track 2

Handful Of Blues
© 1999  Marvin Taylor/Five Feathers Music (BMI)

 key of “E”    

Fig. A     | E | E | E | E |

Verses    | E | E A | E |E A |

         | E | E A | E | E (walk up)|          

Choruses  | A | A | E | E |

         | B | A | E | E |

Outline:

Listen to the track as you read this. 

Begin with a melody called “Figure A” which consists of playing the melody line twice through.   

The verse stays in E, with a quick A on the last beat of each two-bar phrase.  The end of a verse builds and does a “walk up” to the A to begin the chorus.

 The pattern of “Fig.A / Verse / Chorus” continues throughout the song.  After the fifth chorus, repeat that chorus, then vamp on “Fig.A” five times.  The fifth repeat builds with heavy triplets to a retard of the figure for the ending.