Chords for How to Play Old Joe Clark- HOT Flatpicking Solo!

Banjo Ben here again, but better dog _ Whoa
_ That was worth twice as much
How y'all doing son?
We've got a hot lesson for you today.
You guitar pickers out there are gonna love this
Have you ever learned old Joe Clark?
Well, if you have you might want to throw away your old version because I've got a new one for you
This is hot.
It's hot off the presses.
I just wrote it this week
I've been playing the song for a long time and realized I never really sat down and wrote an advanced version to this so
_ Lick your chops and see what you think about this one _ _ _
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I'm going to break the song down piece by piece and in doing that we're going to hit a couple
Different lessons one of those being speed lots of people ask me about speed
This is an incredible speed building song, but you need to make sure that your right hand is playing it correctly
That's something we're going to get into
Also, you're some a lot of your left hand ornaments are really present in this song
Your slides are very present pull offs when you make sure and get those things, right?
So that you can sound like a pro and so as we learn this song
We're going to be getting into all of that then at the end of this video lesson series
I'm gonna play three different speeds of backup guitar so that you've a gold pick members at banjo Ben Clark calm
Can have those to practice along with you can have somebody real to play with which is really cool today
We're playing the song in G.
It's normally played in a but I know a lot of you out there don't have capos
Okay, so we need to get you one, but you can get one of those nice Elliot capos that I've got check them out
They're the best Phil Elliot down in Texas hand makes those
But I played it in G so that you can play along if you don't have a capo when you go to jams
You're probably going to play this in a it's a fiddle tune
It's in a and you put the fingers down the same place as you just have a capo up two frets good to go
Let's dive into this one _
First thing we're going to need to do is get you some tab so that you can read along with them
I'm going to be referring to to this song by the measure number
So if you have the tab it makes a lot easier to follow along if you're watching this on my website banjo Ben Clark calm
Then you'll need to go over to the guitar tab section and print off that PDF there have it there laying beside you and
You should be good to go
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_ To you and now as we as we start off this song.
It's going to start off with a very just basic kickoff
_ There in measure two actually the first measure in the tab I used
_ To help you get on time if you're using the tablet it files
It kind of gives you a little intro _ _ and what is what it gives you just kind of a little count off _
_ _ _ _ [Em] _ Okay, so that's that's to help you on the tablet its side of things if you print out the PDF then just ignore that first measure
But there in measure two we have this kickoff three quarter notes on the B string
_ [C] _ _ [E] _ _ Those are all down strokes.
They get one beat a piece and then in measure three
We're going to get into kind of the the feel of this [Gm] song and and essentially you know the original most basic
Melody of this song is very simple.
It sounds something like [C] this _ _ _
[Em] _ _ _ _ _ [G] _ Okay, so we've taken the liberty to add a lot of notes in between there and the way that I've done it
Is called chromatic its chromatic improvisation, okay?
So what chromatic means is we get a lot of things accomplished by just playing a half step apart
Okay, so instead of running our whole steps, which would be in the scale
We're going to instead run up the scale chromatically using every [A] fret
[G] _ _ _ [Em] _ Okay, that's kind of how we're getting around
That's the mo [G] of this song and it starts out there in measure three
We're doing the strict down up down up picking pattern if it's on a downbeat.
It's down stroke upbeat up stroke
So I'm going to play measure three for you and measure four for you very slowed down here
We go one two and three and four and
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[G] _ _ _ _ _ _ Pretty straightforward there.
We've got a lot of picking in a row and that's what I was talking about building speed with this song
This is really going to be a right hand workout and we see that there measure three.
They're all picked
There's not any hammer-ons [Dm] or slides or anything
[G] _ _ _ [Em] Okay down up down up down up down up
What we [E] need to make sure there is that it's our wrist that's moving.
Okay, not our arm
We don't want this kind of jazz going on
We want this kind of jazz going on and maybe a little bit of thumb like Sir Tony uses _
Okay
but we want we want to have more of this plane going on not this kind of this
Jointed action because what that's going to do is start building tension up here in your shoulder and you're gonna feel your bicep flexed
And that's a that's an enemy of speed
Okay, and we'll get into more of that later in detail, but I just wanted to touch on that right quick measure [G] three
[D] Now when we get to measure four, we're going to use our ring finger to slide from that third to fifth fret
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_ _ Okay, that's gonna put us in what I like to call our really our second position
So maybe some people may call it a third position because we're on the third fret there
I think this kind of home first position second position and I think about it like that so that automatically [D] puts us up there
In this kind of range where's a lot of the song happens
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_ Okay, _ [Gm] slide [C] down [Bb] up [B] hammer on [G] _ and then a down stroke on the last
And that's a pretty cool little move you can use that lick anywhere
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