mp3: Cookin' Green Onions Guitar/Lead Jam Track
wma: Cookin' Green Onions Guitar/Lead Jam Track

mp3: Cookin' Green Onions Bass Jam Track
wma: Cookin' Green Onions Bass Jam Track

mp3: Cookin' Green Onions Drums Jam Track
wma: Cookin' Green Onions Drums Jam Track

Time/size: 4 mins 33 secs/6.4mb. 130 beats per minute/bpm

Blues jam track with soul: Cookin' Green Onions is a groove filled with soul.

Backing track instruments: electric guitar, fretless bass, organ and drums.

Progression: This is a 12 bar blues progression in E. The chords are E5, G5 and A5. A5, C5 and D5. B5, D5 and E5.

Suggestions: Eat four fried chickens and a coke and play the E blues scale.

Cookin' Green Onions Chords and Progression

Where I've put for the I, IV and V I mean they are the chords you'd play in a standard blues progression when playing the I, IV and V chords.

Most of the time I'm not playing the Octave (the note on the D string for the I chords and the G string for the IV and V chords). I'm just playing the Root and the 5th. But I did play the Octave some times. I didn't think it needed it. The guitar is light on sound and big on groove.

Chords for the I

E5 E|--x-- B|--x-- G|--x-- D|--2-- A|--2-- E|--0--

G5 E|--x-- B|--x-- G|--x-- D|--5-- A|--5-- E|--3--

A5 E|--x-- B|--x-- G|--x-- D|--7-- A|--7-- E|--5--

Chords for the IV

A5 E|--x-- B|--x-- G|--2-- D|--2-- A|--0-- E|--x--

C5 E|--x-- B|--x-- G|--5-- D|--5-- A|--3-- E|--x--

D5 E|--x-- B|--x-- G|--7-- D|--7-- A|--5-- E|--x--

Chords for the V

B5 E|--x-- B|--x-- G|--4-- D|--4-- A|--2-- E|--x--

D5 E|--x-- B|--x-- G|--7-- D|--7-- A|--5-- E|--x--

E5 E|--x-- B|--x-- G|--9-- D|--9-- A|--7-- E|--x--

Cookin' Green Onions Scale Suggestions

E Blues Scale - 7th Position - Two Octaves

E|---------------------------10-12-
B|-------------------8-9-10--------
G|--------------7-9----------------
D|-------7-8-9---------------------
A|-7-10----------------------------
E|----------------------------------

Cookin' Green Onions Bass Tab

Lay the groove down solid with the drummer.

1. Over the I chord

G|------------
D|------------
A|------------
E|-0-0-3-5-3-

2. Over the IV chord

G|------------
D|------------
A|-0-0-3-5-3-
E|------------

3. Over the V chord

G|----------
D|----------
A|-2-2-5-7-
E|-----------

Cookin' Green Onions Drum Chart

This is a solid groove that you want to swing like a jazz cat.

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