Rocky Top
Lead Instrument = Harmonica
Key = A
Time = 2/4
Tempo = Balls to the wall and blistering the paint on it. bpm=?
Instruments: Harmonica, piano, steel guitar, banjo, electric guitar, acoustic guitar-flat time, bass, drums (heavy snare).
Kick: = 4 bar of banjo (everybody rhythm accent on first beat of bar) and in bar, bass 5 to 1 walk-up to V1
Verse 1 & 2 (32 bars): = Harmonica, full rhythm
section
background,
V2 with fiddle fills.
Chorus 1 = Twin harmonicas, steel guitar fills
V3 & V4 (32 bars) = Improvising Harmonica, background rhythm emphasis
Chorus 2 = steel guitar
V5 (16 bars) = Electric Guitar
V6 (16 bars) = Fiddle
Chorus 2 = Same as Chorus 1 with twin harps to take us all home.
Tag = Turn around on last line of chorus (Rocky Top, Tennessee), then walk down 1-7-4-1 and then 4 bars of increasing speed on staccato attacks on one chord, similar to rhythm accents on kick.
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