Chords for Green Rock River Band - Meet the Washboard
Tempo:
136.85 bpm
Chords used:
Gm
G
Eb
A
Tuning:Standard Tuning (EADGBE)Capo:+0fret
Jam Along & Learn...
All right, meeting the washboards.
[Gm] Hello.
fingers first of all?
[N] and
beds.
Electrical tape, okay.
fly off my fingers a lot.
All right, okay.
[Gm] Hello.
fingers first of all?
[N] and
beds.
Electrical tape, okay.
fly off my fingers a lot.
All right, okay.
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All right, meeting the washboards.
Hello Rich.
[Gm] Hello.
How you doing?
I'm alright, yeah.
What do you have on your fingers first of all?
Thimbles.
Yeah.
Regular sewing thimbles [N] _ and
a bit of blue tack underneath it to protect the nail beds.
What's the black stuff?
It's just electrical tape.
Electrical tape, okay.
Cheap and cheerful.
Because they fly off my fingers a lot.
Okay, okay.
You can see that they get dented. _
_ All right, okay.
So they will eventually go right through.
_ _ [Eb] Talk us around what you've got on the washboard.
_ This is a, technically it's a musician's washboard believe it or not.
The difference is from what you see here to a regular vintage washboard, this isn't made out of zinc or aluminium,
[G] it's made out of stainless steel. _ _
Previous versions of this that I've done have gone right through the board.
Gone right through it, which obviously can kind of grate [Gm] your fingers a little bit.
So this is stainless steel.
It has a slightly brighter _
_ _ tone than [N] some of the others, which is a bit of a shame. _
_ But it's [A] pretty much straightforward as you would expect washboard.
[N] _ Bolted onto it, a little arm, a couple of cowbells and a cheap fletch symbol.
Just [Gm] for the _ _ _ alternative.
This is a siren whistle _ _ _
[G] made by Acme.
_ _ And a bit like that.
And this is a hooter which is more or less just for decoration and annoying you. _ _ _ _ _
And that's it.
There's a couple of straps basically so I can walk about.
Okay, can you give us a little demo?
_ Yeah, I could try.
So most of the sort of washboard stuff is kind of like doing a shuffle.
_ _ You kind of hear_
_ _ _ So it will consist of a couple of long strokes and shorter taps.
And essentially it's just kind of getting the arms moving and playing a rhythm.
So most people when they see you play, A, think it's terrible and B, think yeah, I can definitely do that.
And yeah, I'll keep it going.
I would encourage everybody to do it but not to get me out of a job. _
So yeah, basically _ I would use the [N] cowbells as some kind of a bass drum alternative.
And _ _ put like an ostinato rhythm down [G] and use the other higher ones as _ [Gm] an interlude type thing. _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ [N] _ That's _ _ _ _ basically it.
Lovely, thank you
Hello Rich.
[Gm] Hello.
How you doing?
I'm alright, yeah.
What do you have on your fingers first of all?
Thimbles.
Yeah.
Regular sewing thimbles [N] _ and
a bit of blue tack underneath it to protect the nail beds.
What's the black stuff?
It's just electrical tape.
Electrical tape, okay.
Cheap and cheerful.
Because they fly off my fingers a lot.
Okay, okay.
You can see that they get dented. _
_ All right, okay.
So they will eventually go right through.
_ _ [Eb] Talk us around what you've got on the washboard.
_ This is a, technically it's a musician's washboard believe it or not.
The difference is from what you see here to a regular vintage washboard, this isn't made out of zinc or aluminium,
[G] it's made out of stainless steel. _ _
Previous versions of this that I've done have gone right through the board.
Gone right through it, which obviously can kind of grate [Gm] your fingers a little bit.
So this is stainless steel.
It has a slightly brighter _
_ _ tone than [N] some of the others, which is a bit of a shame. _
_ But it's [A] pretty much straightforward as you would expect washboard.
[N] _ Bolted onto it, a little arm, a couple of cowbells and a cheap fletch symbol.
Just [Gm] for the _ _ _ alternative.
This is a siren whistle _ _ _
[G] made by Acme.
_ _ And a bit like that.
And this is a hooter which is more or less just for decoration and annoying you. _ _ _ _ _
And that's it.
There's a couple of straps basically so I can walk about.
Okay, can you give us a little demo?
_ Yeah, I could try.
So most of the sort of washboard stuff is kind of like doing a shuffle.
_ _ You kind of hear_
_ _ _ So it will consist of a couple of long strokes and shorter taps.
And essentially it's just kind of getting the arms moving and playing a rhythm.
So most people when they see you play, A, think it's terrible and B, think yeah, I can definitely do that.
And yeah, I'll keep it going.
I would encourage everybody to do it but not to get me out of a job. _
So yeah, basically _ I would use the [N] cowbells as some kind of a bass drum alternative.
And _ _ put like an ostinato rhythm down [G] and use the other higher ones as _ [Gm] an interlude type thing. _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ [N] _ That's _ _ _ _ basically it.
Lovely, thank you
