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    LG7 2 10e Buddy Holly PDF

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    This document provides a summary of the song "Peggy Sue" as recorded by Buddy Holly in 1957. It describes the instrumentation of electric and acoustic guitars, bass, and drums. It notes that Holly plays guitar with a pick at a low volume on the verses and with a strummed solo pattern on the fifth chorus. The drums maintain an energetic four-beat pattern throughout. The form is a modified twelve-bar blues with an instrumental introduction and seven choruses plus a four-bar extension. The lyrics are about the singer's love for a girl named Peggy Sue.

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    This document provides a summary of the song "Peggy Sue" as recorded by Buddy Holly in 1957. It describes the instrumentation of electric and acoustic guitars, bass, and drums. It notes that Holly plays guitar with a pick at a low volume on the verses and with a strummed solo pattern on the fifth chorus. The drums maintain an energetic four-beat pattern throughout. The form is a modified twelve-bar blues with an instrumental introduction and seven choruses plus a four-bar extension. The lyrics are about the singer's love for a girl named Peggy Sue.

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    This document provides a summary of the song "Peggy Sue" as recorded by Buddy Holly in 1957. It describes the instrumentation of electric and acoustic guitars, bass, and drums. It notes that Holly plays guitar with a pick at a low volume on the verses and with a strummed solo pattern on the fifth chorus. The drums maintain an energetic four-beat pattern throughout. The form is a modified twelve-bar blues with an instrumental introduction and seven choruses plus a four-bar extension. The lyrics are about the singer's love for a girl named Peggy Sue.

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    LG7 2 10e Buddy Holly PDF

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    This document provides a summary of the song "Peggy Sue" as recorded by Buddy Holly in 1957. It describes the instrumentation of electric and acoustic guitars, bass, and drums. It notes that Holly plays guitar with a pick at a low volume on the verses and with a strummed solo pattern on the fifth chorus. The drums maintain an energetic four-beat pattern throughout. The form is a modified twelve-bar blues with an instrumental introduction and seven choruses plus a four-bar extension. The lyrics are about the singer's love for a girl named Peggy Sue.

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    Guide 7-2_10e.

    Peggy Sue as recorded by Buddy Holly (1957)



    Features:
    The instrumentation is electric solid-body guitar, acoustic rhythm guitar, string
    bass, and drums.

    On the verses that Holly sings, he strums the solid-body guitar with a pick, but the
    volume is quite low. The volume is higher on the instrumental fifth chorus, with
    Holly playing a solo in a strummed pattern with melodic fills, influenced by Chuck
    Berry's solo style. The strumming of the rhythm guitar is covered up by the
    amplification of Holly's guitar during his solo.

    Throughout the recording the drums keep an energetic four-to-the-beat (sixteenth
    note) pattern on tom-toms with little or no backbeat.

    Holly's characteristic vocal hiccup is most obvious on the fourth, sixth, and seventh
    choruses.

    Tempo:
    The tempo is about 148 beats per minute, with four beats in each bar.

    Form:
    The form is a modified twelve-bar blues. Few blue notes are used.

    The four-bar instrumental introduction is followed by seven twelve-bar choruses
    and a four-bar final extension.

    Lyrics:
    The song is about the singer's unrequited love for a girl named Peggy Sue.

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