Wagon Wheel Instruction for banjo Chords by Josh Turner

[N] _ _ [C] _ _ Alrighty, _ _
[B] so this is a video that [Em] I'm going to be doing by popular demand [G] here actually.
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And this is Wagon Wheel. _ _ _
[Abm] People say, [G] [C] how do [Abm] you [Bb] play that in the video?
[Ab] A few in the [C] end of the game.
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And [A] this is how.
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[D] This is a four chord song.
It's [G] _ _ [Bm]
pretty [E] easy in terms of the left [G] hand.
And I think the picking pattern is probably what most of you are wondering about.
And I will explain that to you now.
_ _ _ What I'm doing here is I'm using four fingers, which is probably a little bit unnecessary. _
But being a recovering little cocky player, that's just what I'm used to doing.
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You could use [Gb] three fingers or two fingers or even just one [G] finger and get the same job done.
[Em] _ _ _ [G] But I like four. _
And I will explain why momentarily.
I'm not using any finger picks in it, which kind of gives it a little bit of a softer
tone as opposed to that kind of sound.
_ _ _ _ [Bm] And _ [A] so the picking goes like this.
And this [G] is why I like to use four fingers, because you're going to _ _ _ go_ _ _
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So what that is, is you're starting_
I'm sorry, I don't know the note names or the numbers of the strings on the banjo or
the video on guitar, but you're starting on the lowest pitched string and just moving up here. _
_ _ _ And then coming back to these three. _
_ Just three in a row. _ _ _ _
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_ _ _ _ [D] Getting that?
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_ _ And [Em] the way to make it sound a little bit more [G] like it did in the video is _ just_ _ _ _
_ _ _ Offices on the notes that you hit with your thumb. _ _ _ _ _ _
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_ _ So once you can get that kind of pulse, you pretty much got a pulse on. _ _ _ _ _ _
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_ _ [Em] _ [G] So, _ [D] _ _
in terms of the left _ hand_ _
[Em] _ Because that's [G] literally all I'm doing in my right hand the entire time.
Even as the chords change, I'm just picking the same thing over and over again.
_ [Em] So [A] you're starting on [G] just open.
You're starting with an open neck here, and that's a G chord. _ _ _
[C] And mark [Bb] you, [E] on the record, _ [A] _ _
it's actually played in A.
_ _ Headin' down [G] south to you now.
But _ we play it in G in the video because [Gbm] it's just easier for us [G] to sing there.
No reason other than that really.
[E] And so to _ [Bb] play it in the key that it's originally done in, you just put [G] a capo on the second
fret and tune this string up a whole step.
So, [B] _
the chords as [G] we play it are G, _ _ _ _
_ _ _ [D] _ D_ _ _
And a [G] D chord is, again excuse my lack of knowledge here, [B] the fourth fret [G] of the string
closest to the ground, _ [D] _ the third fret of the [G] one next to that, _ _ [A] _
and the fourth fret of the
one next [D] to that. _ _ _
[Ab] So you're getting those [D] three notes.
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_ _ _ _ _ Again, you'll notice the picking is exactly the same. _ _ _ _ _
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_ _ _ [E] And then comes [G] an E minor.
_ And I do fancy it up on the E minor a little bit.
Again, the picking remains [A] exactly the same, but I do [E] a hammer-on to the full E minor chord.
So, you're gonna have one finger on the second fret of the string closest to the ground [Abm] there,
and then over on the other side of the neck, [G] you're gonna [Ab] hammer-on to the [G] second fret over there.
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_ _ _ Picking is the same. _ _
[G] And then comes a C chord, which you do by simply putting your [C] first finger _ _ on the, I'm
_ _ _ gonna call it the second string, _ [Em] the one next to your ring finger [C] there. _ _ _ _
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And that's pretty much it.
It changes a [G] little bit the second time around, but it goes G, _ _ _ [D] E, _ [G] _ _
[Em] E minor, _ _ _ C.
[C] _
_ _ _ _ _ _ Okay, and then the second [E] time, it goes [G] G again, _ _ _ _ [D] D, _ _ [Bm] and then here it goes [A] straight to
a C instead [D] of an E minor, [B] and it does it for _ just twice the value of all the other [C] chords. _ _
_ _ _ _ _ And I'm [G] doing the same little second fret hammer-on thing there as I [Gb] do with the E minor,
but only with [C] a C chord. _ _
_ _ _ _ _ You can [G] also take your ring finger off in that chord to make it sound a little more [C] interesting. Okay. _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ And that is the whole song.
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So it goes_
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Headed down south to [D] the land of [G] the pines,
I'm coming [Em] my way in the [C] North Carolina, _ _
[G] Staring up the road and I [D] pray to God [G] I'll see [C] headlights. _ _ _ _ _ _
Let's do the strumming [G] section. _ _ _ _
If you want to just really rock out on it there, you know, any point.
_ _ _ _ _ [Abm] There's some [E] real Scruggs stuff in there [G] too, wherever. _ _ _ _ _ _
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_ _ _ [Bb] Good luck.
_ I'd love