Song List
In this book two basic chord progressions are introduced; 12 Bar Blues and turnarounds (1 and 2). These two progressions are the basis of many songs from the fifties onwards, some of which can be found in the following list.
12 Bar Blues
- Be-bop-a-lula — Gene Vincent/John Lennon
- Hound Dog — Elvis Presley
- Johnny B. Goode — Chuck Berry
- Bopping the Blues — Blackfeather
- The Wanderer — Dion
- Going up the Country — Canned Heat
- Makin’ your mind up — Bucks Fizz
- Green Door — Shakin’ Stevens
- In the Summertime — Mungo Jerry
- Rock Around the Clock — Bill Haley & The Comets
- Barbara Ann — Beach Boys
- Let’s Stick Together — Brian Ferry
- Long Tall Glasses (I Know I can Dance) — Leo Sayer
- Blue Suede Shoes — Elvis Presley
- School Days (Ring Ring Goes The Bell) — Chuck Berry
- Roll Over Beethoven — Chuck Berry
- Spirit in the Sky — Norman Greenbaum
- Turn up your Radio — Masters Apprentices
- Tutti Frutti — Little Richard
- Dizzy Miss Lizzy — Larry Williams/Beatles
Turnaround One*
- The Night has a 1,000 Eyes — Bobby Vee
- It’s Raining Again — Supertramp
- More — Various Artists
- Ti Amo — Umberto Tozzi
- Crocodile Rock (chorus) — Elton John
- One Last Kiss — Various Artists
- Stand by Me — John Lennon
- Dream — Everly Brothers
- Return to Sender — Elvis Presley
- Telstar — Tornadoes
- Always Look on the Bright Side of Life — Monty Python
- Why Do Fools Fall in Love — Frankie Lyman/Diana Ross
- Sarah — Fleetwood Mac
- Take Good Care of my Baby — Bobby Vee/Smokie
- Where Have all the Flowers Gone — Various Artists
- Runaround Sue — Dion & The Belmonts
- Tell Me Why — Beatles
- Let’s Twist Again — Chubby Checker
- Stay (Just a Little Bit Longer) — Four Seasons/Jackson Brown
- Cool for Cats — U.K. Squeeze
- Y.M.CA. — Village People
- Tired of Toein’ the Line — Rocky Burnett
- You Drive Me Crazy — Shakin’ Stevens
- Should I Do it — Pointer Sisters
- Poor Little Fool — Rick Nelson
- You Don’t Have to Say you Love Me — Dusty Springfield/Elvis Presley
- Breaking Up is Hard to Do — Neil Sedaka/Partridge Family
- Oh Carol — Neil Sedaka
- Two Faces Have I — Lou Christie
- Every Day — Buddy Holly
- Poetry in Motion — Johnny Tillotson
- Sweet Little 16 — Neil Sedaka
- Big Girls Don’t Cry — Four Seasons
- Sherry — Four Seasons
- How Do You Do it — Jerry & The Pacemakers
- Shout, Shout — Rocky Sharp and The Replays
- Aces With You — Moon Martin
- Get Down and Get With It — Slade
- Good Golly Miss Molly — Little Richard
- Lucille — Little Richard
- In the Mood — Glen Miller
- Surfin’ Safari — Beach Boys
- Peppermint Twist — Sweet
- Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy — Andrew Sisters/Bette Midler
- I Hear You Knocking — Dave Edmunds
- Boy from New York City — Darts/Manhattan Transfer
- Mountain of Love — Johnny Rivers
- I Love to Boogie — T-Rex
- Shake, Rattle & Roll — Bill Haley
- Lady Rose — Mungo Jerry
- Theme to Batman
- Theme to Spiderman
- Stuck in the Middle with you — Stealers Wheel
- Hot Love — T-Rex
- The Huckle Buck — Brendan Bower
- Way Down — Elvis Presley
- I Can Help — Billy Swan
- Rockin’ Robin — Michael Jackson
- Peggy Sue — Buddy Holly
- Jailhouse Rock — Elvis Presley
- Houses of the Holy — Led Zeppelin
- Uptown Girl — Billy Joel
- Build Me Up Buttercup — Foundations
- "Happy Days" — Theme
- Should I Do It — Pointer Sisters
- Venus — Frankie Avalon
- Costafine Town — Splinter
- If You Leave — OMD
- True Blue — Madonna
- Joanne — Michael Nesmith
- Goodnight Sweetheart — Various Artists
- Looking for an Echo — "l" 55
- Summer Holiday — Cliff Richard
- Be My Baby — The Ronettes/Rachel Sweet
- Everlasting Love — Rachel Sweet/Love Affair
- I Go To Pieces (verse) — Peter & Gordon
- Love Hurts — Everly Brothers/Jim Capaldi/Nazareth
- Gee Baby — Peter Shelley
- Classic — Adrian Gurvitz
- Teenage Dream — T-Rex
- Blue Moon — Various Artists
- The Tide is High — Blondie
- Dennis — Blondie
- It Ain’t Easy — Normie Rowe
- My World — Bee Gees
- Hey Paula — Various Artists
- It’s Only Make Believe — Glen Campbell
- Can’t Smile Without You — Barry Manilow
- Take Good Care of My Baby — Bobby Vee/Smokie
- Crossfire — Bellamy Brothers
- Bobby’s Girl — Marcie Blane
- Do That To Me One More Time — Captain and Tenille
- Please Mr Postman — Carpenters/Beatles
- Sharin’ the Night Together — Dr Hook
- 9 to 5 (Morning Train) — Sheena Easton
- Diana — Paul Anka
- Telstar — Tornadoes
- Enola Gay — Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark
- Some Guys Have all the Luck — Robert Palmer
- So Lonely — Get Wet
- Hungry Heart — Bruce Springsteen
- Land of Make Believe (chorus) — Bucks Fizz
- Daddy's Home — Cliff Richard
- The Wonder of You — Elvis Presley
- So You Win Again — Hot Chocolate
- Hang Five — Rolling Stones
- Paper Tiger — Sue Thompson
Turnaround Two
- Crocodile Rock (verse) — Elton John
- I Started a Joke — Bee Gees
- Different Drum — Linda Ronstadt
- Key Largo — Bertie Higgins
- Black Berry Way — The Move
- Georgy Girl — Seekers
- Where Do You Go To My Lovely — Peter Sarsted
- Mrs Brown, You’ve Got a Lovely Daughter — Hermans Hermit
- Toast and Marmalade for Tea — Tin Tin
- Movie Star — Harpo
- Where Did Our Love Go — Diana Ross & The Supremes
- Hurdy Gurdy Man — Donovan
- I Go To Pieces (chorus) — Peter & Gordon
- Get It Over With — Angie Gold
- Sad Sweet Dreamer — Sweet Sensation
- Down Town — Petula Clark
- Easy — Oakridge Boys
- It’s A Heartache — Bonnie Tyler
- I Don’t Like Mondays — Boomtown Rats
- My Angel Baby — Toby Beau
- Land Of Make Believe (verse) — Bucks Fizz
- I’m In The Mood For Dancing — The Nolans
- What’s In A Kiss — Gilbert O’Sullivan
- My Baby Loves Love — Joe Jeffries
- Dreamin’ — Jonny Burnett
- Cruel To Be Kind — Nick Lowe
- Only You Can Do It — Francoise Hardy
- Costafine — Splinter (Chorus)
- Where Did Our Love Go? — Phil Collins
Some of the songs listed under turnarounds vary from the basic structure of this progression. For example, the turnaround progression may be used in the verses, but not in the chorus. It is also common to have each chord in the progression lasting more than one bar or less than one bar (i.e., half a bar of each chord, as in Lesson 16 ).
Class Sessions
1- Scale Tone Chords (Part 1)
2- Chords in the Key of G
3- The Key of E Minor (Relative to G Major)
4- Chords in the Key of E Minor
5- The F Major Scale
6- Chords in the Key of F
7- The Key of D Minor (Relative to F Major)
8- Chords in the Key of D Minor
9- The D Major Scale
10- Chords in the Key of D
11- Scales
12- The Key of B Minor (Relative to D Major)
13- Chords in the Key of B Minor
14- The A Major Scale
15- Chords in the Key of A
16- Transposing
17- Chord Summary
18- Song List
19- GLOSSARY OF MUSICAL TERMS
20- Minor Scales
21- INTRODUCTION
22- Chords
23- Chords in the Key of C
24- Chords in the Key of a Minor
25- The G Major Scale
26- Chord Exercise
27- Reading Sheet Music
28- The Major Scale
29- Troubleshooting
30- Scale Tone Chords in A
31- Pivot Fingers and Slide Fingers
32- Triplets
33- Music in Two Parts
34- Time Signatures — Simple and Compound Time
35- New Topic
36- The Hammer-on
37- The Key of G Major — Key Signatures
38- A Natural Minor Scale
39- Notes on the 5th Fret
40- Sixteenth Notes
41- Turnaround No. 1 in F
42- Determining the Key of a Piece
43- The Dotted Eighth Note
44- The Half-Bar
45- Scales and Keys
46- The Pull-Off
47- Right Hand Playing Technique for Bass Note Picking
48- Bass Note Runs and Chord Runs
49- New Topic
50- A Harmonic Minor Scale
51- A Melodic Minor Scale
52- The Eighth Note Rest
53- Syncopation
54- Relative Scales
55- Musical Form
56- Minor Scale Exercises
57- Minor Keys