Chords for "You Got To Walk That Lonesome Valley" Guitar Lesson (Pt2)
Tempo:
81.45 bpm
Chords used:
G
D
Gm
Ab
Bm
Tuning:Standard Tuning (EADGBE)Capo:+0fret
Start Jamming...
[D] [G]
You got to walk that lonesome valley.
[D] You got to [G] walk it for yourself.
Ain't nobody else can walk it for you.
You got to walk that valley by yourself.
My mother had to walk that lonesome valley.
[D] She had to walk [G] it for herself.
Ain't nobody else could walk it for her.
She had to walk that valley by herself.
[D]
[N] Let's work through You've Got to Walk That Lonesome Valley now.
The tune begins with pickup beats, sort of the third and fourth beat of the measure.
So if you're counting it, you would go like this.
One, [G] two, three, and four, and one.
Yeah, so you're in G.
That little finger begins on the third fret of the second string.
So you hit one, two, three, and four, and.
Then you're getting the first string.
One, two, and three, and four, and.
And here John Hurt is doing [N] this kind of pet thing of really leaning on that open third string on the and of the beat.
Filling in the beats and generating rhythmic drive.
He also pulls back the middle finger of that second string.
[G] Or excuse me, middle finger of the left hand to get the second fret of the fourth string.
Let's take a look at that.
One, two, and three, and four, and one.
And two, and three, [D] four.
One, [G] two, three, four, and one.
Two.
Now here he does something that's kind of surprising.
He's in G, but on the third beat of this measure he's switching and hits his bass on the open fifth string.
So it goes like this.
One, two, three, and four.
And I watched that video many times just to kind of check it [N] out and see how the heck is he doing that.
Because you can see his right hand plucking that fifth string, but you don't hear it very much.
And so I believe what he was doing is making incidental contact with his ring finger there on the sixth string.
Lightly making contact with the fifth [D] string.
So it deadens it.
[G] Then he's up two frets, sliding and [Gm] bringing the index finger along on the [D] second string.
So going back [G] and forth between the first string and the second there.
[D] Then [G]
switching back to the bass alternating from the [D] A string.
Once again with those damps.
Now sliding that same position with the index still on the second string all the way up so that your ring [Ab] and little finger [D] land up on the seventh fret of the sixth and first strings [G] respectively.
[Bm] Yeah, I'll do that again.
Now, once again, he switches to the bass alternating from the fifth string as he works his way down the neck.
[G]
Then back to G.
This is like the beginning.
[D] [G] Back to this bass on the fifth string.
Now sliding up to the seventh fret.
[A] Then down to the fifth fret.
Back, back down.
And then he concludes the verse with the same pickups that he led into it with.
So I think what I'll do is just do the portion where he goes up the neck one more time for [Eb] the first time because it's just a little bit tricky.
[D]
[G]
Yeah, so there's, you got to walk that lonesome valley.
I should say this song is one that was common in both the African American tradition and the white country tradition.
The Carter family recorded this song as well so it kind of existed in both traditions and was well known and popular in both.
So let's go to a split screen version of it now and give you a chance to look at what each hand is doing and check it out at a slower tempo with no talking.
[D] [G]
[D] [G]
[N]
You got to walk that lonesome valley.
[D] You got to [G] walk it for yourself.
Ain't nobody else can walk it for you.
You got to walk that valley by yourself.
My mother had to walk that lonesome valley.
[D] She had to walk [G] it for herself.
Ain't nobody else could walk it for her.
She had to walk that valley by herself.
[D]
[N] Let's work through You've Got to Walk That Lonesome Valley now.
The tune begins with pickup beats, sort of the third and fourth beat of the measure.
So if you're counting it, you would go like this.
One, [G] two, three, and four, and one.
Yeah, so you're in G.
That little finger begins on the third fret of the second string.
So you hit one, two, three, and four, and.
Then you're getting the first string.
One, two, and three, and four, and.
And here John Hurt is doing [N] this kind of pet thing of really leaning on that open third string on the and of the beat.
Filling in the beats and generating rhythmic drive.
He also pulls back the middle finger of that second string.
[G] Or excuse me, middle finger of the left hand to get the second fret of the fourth string.
Let's take a look at that.
One, two, and three, and four, and one.
And two, and three, [D] four.
One, [G] two, three, four, and one.
Two.
Now here he does something that's kind of surprising.
He's in G, but on the third beat of this measure he's switching and hits his bass on the open fifth string.
So it goes like this.
One, two, three, and four.
And I watched that video many times just to kind of check it [N] out and see how the heck is he doing that.
Because you can see his right hand plucking that fifth string, but you don't hear it very much.
And so I believe what he was doing is making incidental contact with his ring finger there on the sixth string.
Lightly making contact with the fifth [D] string.
So it deadens it.
[G] Then he's up two frets, sliding and [Gm] bringing the index finger along on the [D] second string.
So going back [G] and forth between the first string and the second there.
[D] Then [G]
switching back to the bass alternating from the [D] A string.
Once again with those damps.
Now sliding that same position with the index still on the second string all the way up so that your ring [Ab] and little finger [D] land up on the seventh fret of the sixth and first strings [G] respectively.
[Bm] Yeah, I'll do that again.
Now, once again, he switches to the bass alternating from the fifth string as he works his way down the neck.
[G]
Then back to G.
This is like the beginning.
[D] [G] Back to this bass on the fifth string.
Now sliding up to the seventh fret.
[A] Then down to the fifth fret.
Back, back down.
And then he concludes the verse with the same pickups that he led into it with.
So I think what I'll do is just do the portion where he goes up the neck one more time for [Eb] the first time because it's just a little bit tricky.
[D]
[G]
Yeah, so there's, you got to walk that lonesome valley.
I should say this song is one that was common in both the African American tradition and the white country tradition.
The Carter family recorded this song as well so it kind of existed in both traditions and was well known and popular in both.
So let's go to a split screen version of it now and give you a chance to look at what each hand is doing and check it out at a slower tempo with no talking.
[D] [G]
[D] [G]
[N]
Key:
G
D
Gm
Ab
Bm
G
D
Gm
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_ _ [D] _ _ [G] _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
You got to walk that lonesome valley.
_ [D] You got to [G] walk it for yourself.
Ain't nobody else can walk it for you.
You got to walk that valley by yourself.
My mother had to walk _ that lonesome valley. _
[D] She had to walk [G] it for herself.
Ain't nobody else could walk it for her.
She had to walk that valley by herself. _
_ _ _ [D] _ _ _ _ _
_ [N] _ Let's work through You've Got to Walk That Lonesome Valley now. _
The tune begins with pickup beats, sort of the third and fourth beat of the measure.
So if you're counting it, you would go like this.
One, [G] two, three, and four, and one.
Yeah, so you're in G.
That little finger begins on the third fret of the second string.
So you hit one, two, three, and four, and.
Then you're getting the first string.
One, two, and three, and four, and.
And here John Hurt is doing [N] this kind of pet thing of really leaning on that open third string on the and of the beat.
Filling in the beats and generating rhythmic drive.
He also pulls back the middle finger of that second string.
[G] Or excuse me, middle finger of the left hand to get the second fret of the fourth string.
Let's take a look at that.
One, two, and three, and four, and one.
And two, and three, [D] four.
One, [G] two, three, four, and one.
Two.
Now here he does something that's kind of surprising.
He's in G, but on the third beat of this measure he's switching and hits his bass on the open fifth string.
So it goes like this.
One, two, three, and four.
_ _ And I watched that video many times just to kind of check it [N] out and see how the heck is he doing that.
Because you can see his right hand plucking that fifth string, but you don't hear it very much.
And so I believe what he was doing is making incidental contact with his ring finger there on the sixth string.
Lightly making contact with the fifth [D] string.
So it deadens it.
[G] _ _ _ _ Then he's up two frets, _ sliding and [Gm] bringing the index finger along on the [D] second string.
_ _ _ _ So going back [G] and forth between the first string and the second there.
[D] Then _ [G] _ _ _
switching back to the bass alternating from the [D] A string. _ _
Once again with those damps.
Now sliding that same position with the index still on the second string all the way up so that your ring [Ab] and little finger [D] land up on the seventh fret of the sixth and first strings [G] respectively.
_ _ [Bm] _ _ Yeah, I'll do that again.
_ _ _ _ Now, once again, he switches to the bass alternating from the fifth string as he works his way down the neck.
[G] _ _ _
Then back to G.
This is like the beginning. _ _ _ _ _
[D] _ _ [G] _ _ _ Back to this bass on the fifth string.
_ Now sliding up to the seventh fret. _ _ _
_ [A] Then down to the fifth fret.
Back, back down. _
_ _ _ _ And then he concludes the verse with the same pickups that he led into it with.
So I think what I'll do is just do the portion where he goes up the neck one more time for [Eb] the first time because it's just a little bit tricky.
_ _ _ [D] _ _
_ _ [G] _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ Yeah, so there's, you got to walk that lonesome valley.
I should say this song is one that _ was common in both the African American tradition and the white country tradition.
The Carter family recorded this song as well so it kind of _ existed in both traditions and was well known and popular in both.
So let's go to a split screen version of it now and give you a chance to look at what each hand is doing and check it out at a slower tempo with no talking. _ _ _ _ _ _ _
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[D] _ _ _ _ [G] _ _ _ _
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_ [D] _ _ _ [G] _ _ _ _
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_ _ _ _ _ _ _ [N] _
_ _ [D] _ _ [G] _ _ _ _
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You got to walk that lonesome valley.
_ [D] You got to [G] walk it for yourself.
Ain't nobody else can walk it for you.
You got to walk that valley by yourself.
My mother had to walk _ that lonesome valley. _
[D] She had to walk [G] it for herself.
Ain't nobody else could walk it for her.
She had to walk that valley by herself. _
_ _ _ [D] _ _ _ _ _
_ [N] _ Let's work through You've Got to Walk That Lonesome Valley now. _
The tune begins with pickup beats, sort of the third and fourth beat of the measure.
So if you're counting it, you would go like this.
One, [G] two, three, and four, and one.
Yeah, so you're in G.
That little finger begins on the third fret of the second string.
So you hit one, two, three, and four, and.
Then you're getting the first string.
One, two, and three, and four, and.
And here John Hurt is doing [N] this kind of pet thing of really leaning on that open third string on the and of the beat.
Filling in the beats and generating rhythmic drive.
He also pulls back the middle finger of that second string.
[G] Or excuse me, middle finger of the left hand to get the second fret of the fourth string.
Let's take a look at that.
One, two, and three, and four, and one.
And two, and three, [D] four.
One, [G] two, three, four, and one.
Two.
Now here he does something that's kind of surprising.
He's in G, but on the third beat of this measure he's switching and hits his bass on the open fifth string.
So it goes like this.
One, two, three, and four.
_ _ And I watched that video many times just to kind of check it [N] out and see how the heck is he doing that.
Because you can see his right hand plucking that fifth string, but you don't hear it very much.
And so I believe what he was doing is making incidental contact with his ring finger there on the sixth string.
Lightly making contact with the fifth [D] string.
So it deadens it.
[G] _ _ _ _ Then he's up two frets, _ sliding and [Gm] bringing the index finger along on the [D] second string.
_ _ _ _ So going back [G] and forth between the first string and the second there.
[D] Then _ [G] _ _ _
switching back to the bass alternating from the [D] A string. _ _
Once again with those damps.
Now sliding that same position with the index still on the second string all the way up so that your ring [Ab] and little finger [D] land up on the seventh fret of the sixth and first strings [G] respectively.
_ _ [Bm] _ _ Yeah, I'll do that again.
_ _ _ _ Now, once again, he switches to the bass alternating from the fifth string as he works his way down the neck.
[G] _ _ _
Then back to G.
This is like the beginning. _ _ _ _ _
[D] _ _ [G] _ _ _ Back to this bass on the fifth string.
_ Now sliding up to the seventh fret. _ _ _
_ [A] Then down to the fifth fret.
Back, back down. _
_ _ _ _ And then he concludes the verse with the same pickups that he led into it with.
So I think what I'll do is just do the portion where he goes up the neck one more time for [Eb] the first time because it's just a little bit tricky.
_ _ _ [D] _ _
_ _ [G] _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ Yeah, so there's, you got to walk that lonesome valley.
I should say this song is one that _ was common in both the African American tradition and the white country tradition.
The Carter family recorded this song as well so it kind of _ existed in both traditions and was well known and popular in both.
So let's go to a split screen version of it now and give you a chance to look at what each hand is doing and check it out at a slower tempo with no talking. _ _ _ _ _ _ _
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