Chords for Top 5 Jerry Douglas Licks | Dobro Desert Island

Hey Dobro players
Here are five licks that you absolutely must know if you're gonna jam with your friends play with your band
Play Carnegie Hall tomorrow, whatever it is.
You're gonna do _
These are things that desert island licks.
Let's call them Dobro desert island
I wish there was a place like that.
Anyway, the first one I'm going to show you is
sort of an intro to any any solo that you might take and it's
The for the D string the fourth string open then [E] on the second fret noting noting it on the second fret
Flying [Gb] over the third fret to the fourth fret
_ [G] _ _ [D] Then to the to the fifth fret
So here [G] and _ _ _ I put a little roll there at the end of it, which is _ _ _
very slow
_ _ [D] So the whole lick is
_ [G] _ _ _ _ Okay, [Ab] that's one lick
Next lick is a lick that was used by shot Jackson
By every but Dobro player that's ever lived and but it was really shot Jackson
Josh graves and bashful brother Oswald all used this lick in their shows.
It came from like Jimmy Rogers songs like
_ [Bm] _
_ _ [F] _ _ _ [G] _ _ _
[Eb] which is a Hawaiian lick that led to _
Jimmy Jimmy songs and Jimmy Rogers songs and then
Shot Jackson got a hold [Bm] of it _ [F] _ _ [G] _ _
and [F] then all's well probably played it
_ [Bm] _ _ [Am] _
_ _ [G] _ _ I'm starting [D] with my fourth string in the down on the on in the high G position my 12th fret
on the fourth string
_ _ _ [G]
Then I'm striking my second string and also at the 12th fret _ _
Then I'm gonna do this little back pedaling thing here where [Bb] I'm gonna strike the string
[C] _
The fourth string [D] on the 12th 11th 10th _
_ [G] _ _ _ [C] _ _ then I'll [A] slide down to my fifth string [G] and
_ Play the and then play the third string at the 12th fret [F] and that's all over G, which I am tuned to right now but it's
[Bm] _ _ _ _ [G] _ _
So there's that lick Josh graves played it _ _
_ _ And Josh graves would also add this other lick on that
I should show you that I call it the throw your bar through the bedroom window
lick if you're practicing and and
you got to be careful you got to have a good grip on your on your bar when you play this lick because it's a
[Gb] _ _ [G] _ _
And if you don't hold on to the bar when you go _ _ _
Sliding you can
_ _ Gone bars gone.
You got to have a good grip on that bar
_ The Josh graves lick about throwing the bar through the window
_ _ [B] _ _ _
[G] _ _ _ I won't be hanging around is one example of a flattened Scruggs tune
he would use this lick on but he used it a lot to sort of put an exclamation point on the end of his solos [E] and
_ [D] _ _ _
_ [G] _ _ The snap is coming from your put your
You're playing your first string at the 12th position
striking the string _ and
Sliding it to the to the 14th fret _
And then coming back
[Bm] To the 12th fret again and striking the string again
And [B] _ then hitting your second string at the 12th fret and sliding it backwards two frets one whole step and
[G] _
Then resolving it at the at the on the G string the third string on the 12th fret the whole lick is _ _ _ _
Then I'm just rolling down four or five six at this at the 12th fret
There's a lick in the that Oswald played in Wabash Cannonball that everybody plays it
I mean, it's like you can't play the song on a dobro without playing this lick
It was embellished upon by Josh graves later on but it's it goes
_ _ [Bb] _ _ _ _ [G] _
Now that's the that's the Oswald style Josh graves added a little bit of
Just a little bit of sass to it
_ _ [Gb] _
_ [G] _ _ _ That's the way Josh graves would have played it a little more forceful
I mean he was all about playing hard and playing it really really meant every note he ever played on Wabash Cannonball
You're starting on your first fret
[D] _ _
_ [B] _ [G] So I'm coming back from the fifth position on the [F] first string
_ to the third fret
_ Sliding backwards and pulling off of that first string [D] and _ _ then sliding from the third string
_ [F] _ _ [Gm] _ Just sort of sliding [Db] it from the second fret to the fourth fret
[F] _ _ [G] _ And then starting it open
_ [D] _ _ [E] Your fourth string down on the second second fret
[D] _ All these are noted _ and then open after you've noted [E] the second string
[D] _ _ _
_ _ _ [F] _ _ _ [D] _ _
_ [A] _ [G] _ So I'm sliding on the fourth string
Up to the G position up to the up to the fifth fret
_ _ Hitting that twice _
Doing the same thing that I did on the first string coming back down
_ [D] _
_ _ _ [Dm] _ Sliding off of that third to the second and pulling off
_ _ _ [D] When you pull off you can actually snap the end of the bar off the off the end of the side of the string
And you can continue hearing another struck note, but it's a it's a pulled pulled note pull off note
_ _ [G] _ _
I'm then I'm sliding from my on my sixth string from the second fret to the fourth fret
_ _ _ So [D] the whole lick is and [Bm] _ _ _ [G] _ _
_ [Dm] _ [G] _ _ _ you can end any solo that way I can [C] end the solo like
_ _ [D] _ _
_ [G] _ _ _ [Bb] _ _ [G] _ _
_ [G] _ _ [Am] There's one example you can [G] use that for the rest of your life
I hope you've enjoyed all these licks that I've shown you.
This is Jerry Douglas coming to you from
Nashville, Tennessee at the Fishman Showroom _