Chords for How to play Catfish John - Guitar Lesson

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[D] _ [Gm] _ _ [G] _ _ _ [C] Hey everyone, welcome [N] back to Music with Ryan.
Thanks for joining me.
I'm of course Ryan and this week's featured lesson is a traditional bluegrass tune
Catfish John as you just saw and heard there and I know this tune best from listening to Olden and the Way
Jerry Garcia, David Grissom
Vassar Clements and Peter Rowan, of course great band probably my favorite bluegrass band and
Yeah, I created a it probably an intermediate arrangement combining elements of the Carter style
Along with some bluegrass flat picking elements as well kind of mushed them all together in different spots
So and I got an arrangement for the verse and the chorus
So the whole tune 32 measures and if you'd like to check out purchasing the full length version
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all right, so let's go ahead and break down catfish John here in the key of G and
Remember any markets in the bottom of staff pick directions follows [G] closely any markets on the top of the staff any
Little like littler numbers.
There are will be your left hand fingering
Okay, and this is in the key of G, but it starts [C] on
The C chord.
Okay starts on the four chord.
So don't be confused, but it's in the key of G
We're just kind of [G] starting the melody the [C] tune out on the C chord.
Okay.
So here it is.
Here's the first few measures
_ so one [B] two, three, [A] four one [Bm] two
[Am] _ [C] _ Do _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ that again two [B] ready go
[C] _ _ _ _ _
_ [D] _ And I'm gonna end on the [G] first beat of the fourth measure open D to kind of [Bm] complete that phrase
[C] _ _ _
_ _ _ [G] _ _ Okay, so all that's over the C chord [Em] there
So what I got going on here is a little double stop to open it up had
Starting on beat two.
So the the vocal line comes in before the downbeat on the C chord.
Okay, I'm sorry
It [Bm] starts on beat three
So yeah, but there's a pickup and I'm gonna do a little double stop thing.
I'll be doing this throughout the piece
_ Third fret B fourth fret G.
You see your one and two use your first and second finger
And you see it slides down to one and two
_ _ [Am] Okay
There's a slur on it.
So I'm gonna pick once and get both those notes.
You can certainly [Bm] pick [Am] this _
Twice [D] but I kind of like it
[C] _ _ Then it's one and zero
_ So some double stops are playing two notes together at one [Bm] time
[A] _ [C] So _ [Bm] three and [G] four [Am] one and two and then [C] one and zero _
_ _ [Bm] _ [Am] _ [C] _ _ _ _
[D] So getting their quarter notes, they're not eighth note slides or anything like that so three [Cm] four one
_ _ [Bm] _ _ [F]
[C] One and then I'm gonna strum the C
_ _ Then zero two [D] hammer on the [C] D open G [G] first fret B [C] and you're already there, [F] [C] okay
_ Nice little [D] lick
[C] _ _ _ On the C [D] chord
[C] _ _ _ _ _ Down
Down up so that [Eb] together [D] ready go
[Am] _
[C] _ You _ _ _ can you got to have a little touch about you to get those double stops to sound just right
And not have one string be louder than the other
I mean, maybe I should take that back a little bit
You might want to have some one of the strings be a little bit louder than the other
And it can be done again that still takes finesse in itself
But it does take a little [Bm] touch
[Am] _ [C] _ I'm playing those strings about [B] even _
[C] _ _ _ Okay, _ I'm harmonizing with the melody that's kind of why [B] I'm doing it
[C] like _ _ _ a fiddle would
_ And then the next measure I pluck the D [E] string second fret you're there another strum on the [C] C
Then another zero two hammer on [D] that D
[C] _
Open G [Em] back to the second fret D.
So very little movement in the left hand for these [D] for the second and third measure
[Em] _ _ _
So last [D] half there three [Em] and four and _
[C] _ _ _ _ Two _ [Em]
[B] let's do all three the measures now ready [Bm] go
[Am] _ _
[C] _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ [D] _ Atlanta open D there.
[G] Sorry Atlanta open D
_ And you can pick the first two [D] notes
[Am] Because _ [C] _ [G] sometimes it's kind of hard to get a [Am] sound [C] on that slide
But you can certainly do it and or you could certainly pick both
[Bm] _
_ [Am] _ [C] _ _ _ _ So _ _ _ _ _ [D] _ it's kind [Em] of a little cross [D] picking thing there and measure [C] two three _ _ _ and four and one _ _ _
All three of those one more time two [D] ready go
[Am] [C] All right, _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ [Gm] _ _ so let's move [Bm] on to the next [C] few measures
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