Julian Lage
"Night Shade" · Julian Lage || Guitar + Bass || Tabs + Sheet Music + Chords
"Night Shade" · Julian Lage || Guitar + Bass || Tabs + Sheet Music + Chords
Including pdf files:
• Electric Guitar: tab + sheet music + chords
• Double Bass: tab + sheet music + chords
Digital audio files: midi + xml + mp3
Get the official World’s Fair Songbook
Check out my album collections:
• Scenes from Above (album collection)
• Speak to Me (album collection)
• The Layers (album collection)
• View with a Room (album collection)
• Squint (album collection)
• Love Hurts (album collection)
• Modern Lore (album collection)
• Arclight (album collection)
Julian Lage tells the story behind each song on the album in a series of interview clips. Here is the clip for “Night Shade”, posted on his YouTube channel. He also tells a bit more in the First Look interview with Don Was of his record company, Blue Note Records.
song: Night Shade
artist: Julian Lage
album: Scenes from Above (2026)
composer: Julian Lage
electric guitar: Julian Lage
double bass: Jorge Roeder
(organ: John Medeski)
(drums: Kenny Wolleson)
(bells + piano: Patrick Warren)
This is a transcription of the lead guitar and the bass parts on “Night Shade”. This composition perfectly fits the album theme of “musical poems”; I think of it as a short poem with the profound spiritual vocabulary of a mantra. Compositionally, this is a slow E-minor ballad with a relatively simple chord progression, and this stands in great contrast to the highly refined changes in groove and dynamics that really shows how much great musicians can do with such a simple composition. Enjoy!
