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08-23-2010, 11:36 AM
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Actually I had never heard Mustang Sally played at the blues jams I've been going to and mostly know about it from this forum as a song lots of people get tired of playing. Well I didn't know it was a 24 bar blues song (or even that there were 24 bar blues songs) so that was the problem, as you can imagine. the singer kept staring at me and singled me through the changes, but once he started soloing I stupidly ( or automatically) went back to a 12 bar. I started getting so flustered I forgot to look for all the hot chicks that supposedly start dancing when ever Mustang Sally is played!! live and learn i guess haha!!
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08-23-2010, 11:40 AM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Nov 2008 Location: Sacramento CA | | | Yea thats one that I still havent learned to play and much like Volkswagons I will refuse to touch either one for as long as I can. |
08-23-2010, 12:03 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Feb 2008 Location: D'Shaw | | | Love Mustang Sally, it's a real crowd pleaser that gets the booties out on the dance floor.
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08-23-2010, 12:08 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jul 2000 Location: Los Angeles | | | I have heard/played this tune for years at blues jams. There is even a blues jam here in town that has it on their "no play list", but I like the song and we usually do it kinda funky.
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08-23-2010, 12:09 PM
| | | | i played a block party this weekend & the old guys that hired us requested that the drummer & i act as their rhythm section & they wanted to do Mustang & i didn't know it was a 24 or whatever bar either. i even asked & the one guy said it's like a 16 bar blues. it wasn't but we got it. i really need to learn the real bassline.
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08-23-2010, 12:15 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: May 2008 Location: Littleton, CO | | | About five years ago we were playing at a club and some drunk guy came up to the stage and requested Mustang Sally. We told him we didn't know it (we didn't), hoping he'd go away. He pulled out a C Note and said "do you know it now?" We immediately answered yes and circled the wagons. We played it E (it's in C I think), played in as a 12 bar riff and it packed the dance floor.
We never bothered to learn the real version and continue to pull out our bastardized version whenever the dance floor needs a jolt. Damn song works every time. Go figure.
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08-23-2010, 12:17 PM
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Originally Posted by mongo2  Love Mustang Sally, it's a real crowd pleaser that gets the booties out on the dance floor. | I play it every weekend. Never fails to fill up a dance floor.
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08-23-2010, 12:18 PM
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Originally Posted by FuzzBoxVoodoo Yea thats one that I still havent learned to play and much like Volkswagons I will refuse to touch either one for as long as I can. |
No Dubs.. wow.. ...wow
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08-23-2010, 12:30 PM
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Originally Posted by tanpsi Actually I had never heard Mustang Sally played at the blues jams I've been going to and mostly know about it from this forum as a song lots of people get tired of playing. Well I didn't know it was a 24 bar blues song (or even that there were 24 bar blues songs) so that was the problem, as you can imagine. the singer kept staring at me and singled me through the changes, but once he started soloing I stupidly ( or automatically) went back to a 12 bar. I started getting so flustered I forgot to look for all the hot chicks that supposedly start dancing when ever Mustang Sally is played!! live and learn i guess haha!! | We all pull an fail - even an epic one - now and again. Live and learn!
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08-23-2010, 01:04 PM
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Originally Posted by MNAirHead No Dubs.. wow.. ...wow | exactly, love my dub. selling it tho, hope fully buying a GTI!!
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08-23-2010, 01:09 PM
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Originally Posted by tanpsi Actually I had never heard Mustang Sally played at the blues jams I've been going to and mostly know about it from this forum as a song lots of people get tired of playing. Well I didn't know it was a 24 bar blues song (or even that there were 24 bar blues songs) so that was the problem, as you can imagine. the singer kept staring at me and singled me through the changes, but once he started soloing I stupidly ( or automatically) went back to a 12 bar. I started getting so flustered I forgot to look for all the hot chicks that supposedly start dancing when ever Mustang Sally is played!! live and learn i guess haha!! | Sometimes you just have to say eff it! Live learn and love brah!!!
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08-23-2010, 03:27 PM
| | | | Thanks, the funny part is I've handeled lots of crazy 12 bar variations thrown at me, like a stormy monday with a sharp 4, various stops, intro's, turnarounds etc, but something about the 24 vs 12 bar I just couldn't get my head around during the tune, and I kept going back to the 12 bar haha! I probly looked like a confused dog following a scent one way then the other and then going in circles! But yeah I posted this because I thought folks would get a laugh about it especially because of the tune in question!
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08-23-2010, 03:34 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Oct 2003 Location: Colorado Springs, CO | | | Well I guess enlighten the rest of us. I can play a twelve bar in my sleep but never heard of a 24. I have never had the pleasure of mustang sally so what is the structure on a 24?
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08-23-2010, 03:39 PM
| | | | Ok here goes, if you want to trust me haha: every section is twice as long
so instead of I I I I IV IV I I V IV I I
it's I I I I I I I I IV IV IV IV I I I I V V IV IV I I I I |
08-23-2010, 03:41 PM
|  | Registered User | | | | | It seems you can play a blues scale up and down and still have MS Sally sound OK. Green Onions followed by MS Sally is a decent hand exercise for this old bastard. |
08-23-2010, 03:44 PM
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Well I didn't know it was a 24 bar blues song (or even that there were 24 bar blues songs) so that was the problem
| It IS in a twelve-bar blues form. BUT... the changes are 'doubled' in length so as to complete the cycle every 24 measures. ||: C | C | C | C | C | C | C | C | F | F | F | F | C | C | C | C | G | G | F | F | C | C | C | C :|| |
08-23-2010, 05:11 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Mar 2009 Location: Willoughby, Ohio | | | The way I see it, if you haven't blown at least one well known song on stage you haven't been playing long enough. I've been playing for about 30 years and every now and then still draw a blank on a change or start of a tune I've played a hundred times.
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08-23-2010, 05:15 PM
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Originally Posted by tanpsi Thanks, the funny part is I've handeled lots of crazy 12 bar variations thrown at me, like a stormy monday with a sharp 4, various stops, intro's, turnarounds etc, but something about the 24 vs 12 bar I just couldn't get my head around during the tune, and I kept going back to the 12 bar haha! I probly looked like a confused dog following a scent one way then the other and then going in circles! But yeah I posted this because I thought folks would get a laugh about it especially because of the tune in question! | It's just so long that no one likes to do that kinda jam unless u r a pure blues band I guess?
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08-23-2010, 05:22 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Nov 2001 Location: Corsicana, Texas | | Wow, I've really been doing it wrong all those times! I can't even walk, at all, but still manage to get through it 
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08-23-2010, 05:22 PM
|  | Regal User | | Join Date: Dec 2007 Location: Orange County, CA | | | Doesn't that just make it a 12-bar blues with a double time feel? This is more of a nitpicky semantic question since I've never heard of anything called a 24-bar blues.
You guys had me going there for a minute. I've only had to perform the song once, but I thought it was a 12-bar... | | Thread Tools | Search this Thread | | | | 
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