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Boogie
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History
The boogie was originally played on the piano in boogiewoogie music and adapted to guitar. Boogie-woogie is a
"style of blues piano playing characterized by an uptempo rhythm, a repeated melodic pattern in the bass,
and a series of improvised variations in the treble."[2]
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Boogie woogie developed from a piano style that
developed in the rough barrelhouse bars in the
Southern states, where a piano player performed for
the hard-drinking patrons. Wayne Schmidt remarks
that with boogie-woogie songs, the "bass line isn't
just a time keeper or 'fill' for the right hand"; instead,
the bassline has equal importance to the right hand's
melodic line. He argues that many boogie-woogie
basslines uses a "rising/falling sequence of notes"
called a walking bass line. [3]
Songs
Swing-era boogie hits include the 1940 Glenn Miller song
"Boog It by" (#7) and the The Andrews Sisters' number
two hit from that same year, "Beat Me Daddy, Eight to the
Bar". In the mid-1940s, bandleader Tommy Dorsey had a
number five hit with "Boogie Woogie", jump blues
maestro Louis Jordan had a number six hit with
"Caldonia Boogie", and Count Basie scored a number 10
hit with "Mad Boogie".
In 1948, Freddie Martin had a number six hit with "Sabre
Dance Boogie" and three years later, Ernie Ford hit
number four with his "Shot Gun Boogie". After several
decades out of the hits catalogue, singer-actress Bette
Midler hit number eight in 1973 with her cover of the song
Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy; the original track, whose
details Midler reproduced closely, was a 1941 national hit
for the Andrews Sisters.
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Other well-known songs using a boogie rhythm or
bass pattern include Chuck Berry's "Johnny B.
Goode", Marvin Gaye's "Can I Get a Witness" and
The Shadows's "Shadoogie"; and Jerry Lee Lewis
playing "Great Balls of Fire".
Click this for the basic steps of
Boogie
Basic Steps
Click this for the Sample
Dance
"Boogie Woogie" Swing Dance
German Championship 1999
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