Sleepwalk guitar chords ritchie valens biography
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Doug:Doug Beaumier wrote:The video has over a half Million views. The comments are interesting. Most of the commenters don't have a clue. A couple of people mentioned that Santo & Johnny played the song, but someone said Richie's version is better. Someone else said that Santo and Johnny were a Mexican duo. Maybe 50 years from now people will think it's a Beatles song! You know, the band from Ireland with a drummer named Jango Starr. They were big in the s.
Just looked through the comments on that thread.
Lots of comments about the emotional impact of the recording and how powerful it isbut I didn't see anyone even imply that the instrument had anything to do with that. More likely they would claim they are affected because the song makes them think about Valens and the movie.
I assume 90 plus percent of listeners world wide could not name the instrument if they saw a picture of it.
I guess a lot of people think it's a standard guitar they are hearing?
Weird? I don't
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Sleep Walk bygd Santo &#; Johnny ()
by Simone Amelia Jordan
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Only once did my father take me to the movies, towards the end of my parents&#; marriage.
It was a chilly afternoon in late September My cousin Peter and I were playing in our grandmother’s time-worn lounge room in Summer Hill, inner-west Sydney, when my dad, George, popped his curly head in and randomly asked us in his thick Cypriot accent if we wanted to see La Bamba. It was our first time visiting the big screen, so our joy made up for the fact we had no clue (nor cared) about the film showing.
La Bamba is the rags to riches story of Ritchie Valens, a Mexican-American teenager who becomes an overnight rock &#;n&#; roll star in the late s. As his celebrity profile grows, Ritchie deals with his half-brother Bob&#;s insecurities plus his constant nightmares, shown in a recurring dream sequence, of a real-life plane crash at his high school that killed three students on the ground.
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'50s progression
Chord progression and a turnaround used in Western popular music
The '50s progression (also known as the "Heart and Soul" chords, the "Stand by Me" changes,[1][2] the doo-wop progression[3]:&#;&#; and the "ice cream changes"[4]) is a chord progression and turnaround used in Western popular music. The progression, represented in Roman numeral analysis, is I–vi–IV–V. For example, in C major: C–Am–F–G. As the name implies, it was common in the s and early s and is particularly associated with doo-wop.
Theory
[edit]In Western classical music during the common practice period, chord progressions are used to structure a musical composition. The destination of a chord progression is known as a cadence, or two chords that signify the end or prolongation of a musical phrase. The most conclusive and resolving cadences return to the tonic or I chord; following the circle of fifths, the most suitable chord t