Straight No Chaser
by Thelonious Monk
🎷 Jazz
Difficulty
★★★☆☆
Tuning
Standard
Capo
None
Monk's iconic 12-bar blues in F, recorded in 1951. The angular melody is built on a distinctive chromatic cell that repeats and transposes through the blues changes, embodying Monk's genius for making the simple profound.
e|---1--2--3--1--------1--2--3--1--3--1-----------|
B|---1--1--3--1--------1--1--3--1--3--1-----------|
G|---2--2--2--2--------2--2--2--2--2--2-----------|
D|---3--3--3--3--------3--3--3--3--3--3-----------|
A|---1--2--3--1--------1--2--3--1--3--1-----------|
E|------------------------------------------------|
e|---6--7--8--6---1--2--3--1---3--2--1--0--1------|
B|---6--6--8--6---1--1--3--1---3--1--1--1--1------|
G|---7--7--7--7---2--2--2--2---2--2--2--2--2------|
D|---8--8--8--8---3--3--3--3---3--3--3--3--3------|
A|---6--7--8--6---1--2--3--1---3--2--1--0--1------|
E|------------------------------------------------|