James Brown – Night Train (Guitar Tab)
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12-bar blues kind of progression doing this most of the way through - they play it fast.
A D E e------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------| B------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------| G--------------------------------------7----5--4---------------9------7---6----------------| D-------7-----5---4----------------------7--------7--4-----------9-----------9---6---------| A---------7----------7---4-----------5-----------------------7-----------------------------| E-----5------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|
"Night Train" has a long and complicated history. The piece's opening riff was first recorded in 1940 by a small
group led by Duke Ellington sideman Johnny Hodges under the title "That's the Blues, Old Man". Ellington used
the same riff as the opening and closing theme of a longer-form composition, "Happy-Go-Lucky Local", that was
itself one of four parts of his Deep South Suite. Forrest was part of Ellington's band when it performed this
composition, which has a long tenor saxophone break in the middle."