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Summary: A New Orleans musician Professor Longhair, also known as Henry Byrd, had a unique sound by mixing minor and major chords. Discover Professor Longhair with tips from a Crescent City resident in this free video on New Orleans music.
Chris Masceill has lived in New Orleans for more than 10 years and has learned piano from some of Crescent City's best piano greats. Masceill attended both Loyola Univeristy and the...read more
"In this clip we're going to discuss some of the music and styles of Henry Byrd, better known as Professor Longhair. Now, Fess came up in the 40's with a few singles, disappeared for years, and was eventually discovered in the late 60's early 70's as a janitor in a record shop. It was resurrected and became a huge cult figure before his death in 1980. And one of the things Professor Longhair did, which confused many people trying to learn his style, is he played both a major and a minor chord at the same time. It came with a very unique sound. So in the C chord, you have your major. Now Professor Longhair would add the minor 3rd in there with the major 3rd, put in some of those Latin polyrhythms we talked about and you got a (Demo). That's one thing Professor Longhair was known for, was that unique dissonance sound. He also did a lot of walk-ups to the next chord, as you saw it in my demonstration going from the 1 to the 4 (Demo). That kind of style. He also was famous for doing a whole tone scale at the end of his song which consisted of a (Demo)."
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