Saint James Infirmary Blues - clawhammer style banjo скачать в хорошем качестве

Saint James Infirmary Blues - clawhammer style banjo

The American early jazz song "Saint James Infirmary Blues" is thought by many to be a derivative of "The Unfortunate Rake", a British broadside ballad from the 1700s or so, about a young man dying of venereal disease, though the connection that remains between the two songs has, by now, become fairly thin. Unlike the cowboy ballad, "The Streets of Loredo", another supposed offshoot of "the Unfortunate Rake", the music of "Saint James Infirmary" bears no resemblance at all to the earlier British song. The song also appears to include lyrics that come from several different sources. Though I'm not sure that this is necessarily true of every version of the song, I have been told that the story is about a pimp ("sweet man") whose girlfriend, a prostitute, has just died of venereal disease. To me, this explains why he suddenly starts talking about his own funeral - he realizes that he is now probably likely to die himself, of the same cause. I have long thought that this was a song I might do, but I neglected to learn it. About a year ago I saw a really good clawhammer version on YouTube by Meredith Moon (this one:)    • St. James Infirmary (Clawhammer Banjo) - M...   and again I thought I really ought to learn it, but I still didn't get around to it - until this week, when Meredith Moon posted an instructional video to her version, which I watched (this one:)    • St. James Infirmary Lesson Video - Meredit...  , and that finally spurred me to take action. I use a different tuning, a different key, and a rather different approach to defining the chord structure (I use mostly chord fragments) than she does - but I started out with her version in mind - and I stole those two barre chords a semitone apart straight from her. The lyrics, as is usual for me, come from several different sources, and have been lightly massaged and rewritten. This is played on a Jason Romero banjo, tuned (without the capo) at eAEae. But I have the capo at the 4th fret, which transforms the tuning of the 4 long strings to C#G#c#g#. Leaving the 5th string at the e note, makes this a C# minor chord, and I am thus playing it in C#m.