The Trembler

For the past few weeks, I've been experimenting with playing 12-bar blues in C, but turning the C, F, and G chords into minor chords and playing it real slow and with lots of expression. Tonight, I sped it up, dropped the thirds of the chords, and then threw the melody to Duane Eddy's 'The Trembler,' over the top in the right hand, and voila: A very easy and fun song to add to one's repertoire. Admittedly, on the piano, it sounds a lot different than when it's played on a Les Paul Custom, with a Fender Twin Reverb tube amp, but still a very cool song.

Cheers, -Frank

P.S. This song is on the soundtrack for Natural Born Killers, and of course, several of Duane Eddy's albums. I think the Traveling Wilbury's did a cover it, as well.

Alternate each quatrain between major and minor chords and you have Dvorak.

Trey Behan

Ahh Frank , you have dicovered the 'same horse , different jockey', 3 chord opera secret formula .