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4 chord Andelusian cadence
Thanks @djangology - didn't know it was a thing, tho' I've been playing the sequence for decades.
Now I know the name, I see there's a detailed theoretical tratment on Wikipedia that includes most of the examples I had come across
This above may the most complex diagram relating to music I've ever seen.
Pretty neat idea to start a song like that (I think).
It's just a family tree of song forms.
The form is simple, just like you said. It's the amount of groups and subgroups and individual forms that's stunned me by its complexity.
Bill,
I had no idea this had a name. I always just called it the Ventures intro, because it reminds me of "Walk, Don't Run," one of the first songs I learned on guitar. When I read this wiki entry, sure enough, there it was mentioned.
-the other Bill
@billyshakes
It has more than one name. In Ancient and Classical Music it is known as "lament bass", the chromatic variation as "passus duriusculus" ("a bit hard going").
I always just called it the Ventures intro, because it reminds me of "Walk, Don't Run,"
@billyshakes Fun fact: the original version of the Ventures 60s hit was written by Johnny Smith in 1954 and apparently was conceived as a
contrafact of Softly as the Morning Sunrise.
Maybe its time to introduce it into the gypsy jazz repertoire ...
We play Softly, as a Morning Sunrise...and I seem to remember we do use a Ventures intro....but it is probably a year since we played it, so I may be getting the songs mixed up.