Chords for Wreck of the Old 97– Carter-Style Guitar Exercise!

Tempo:
100.45 bpm
Chords used:

G

C

D

B

A

Tuning:Standard Tuning (EADGBE)Capo:+0fret
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Wreck of the Old 97– Carter-Style Guitar Exercise! chords
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[G] Bum, bum, bum!
[D] [G]
[C] [G]
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[C] [G]
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[D] [G]
[C] [G]
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[D] [G]
[C] [G] [A]
[G] Bum, bum, dum!
Howdy, welcome to BanjoBandClark.com.
I am Banjo Ben, your host here on the website to teach you how to play banjo, of course,
[N] mandolin, and also guitar.
And that's what we have this week.
We've got a great lesson this week.
We're going to work on a lot of technique, as well as learn a few solos to this old tune,
Wreck of the Old 97.
We're going to really work on our pickhand, getting accurate with it, getting loose with
it, and getting strong with it.
Accurate, loose, strong.
Those are all three things that we want to have associated with our pickhand.
If you're watching this on Facebook or YouTube here in a moment, I ask you to come over to
the website, BanjoBandClark.com.
You can join as a Go Pick member, have access to this 20-plus minute lesson, as well as
hundreds of others that I have over there.
I also have the tabs for this exactly as I performed it, and then three different speeds
of rhythm, MP3 tracks you can download and practice along with me.
All right, let's dive right into this one.
Hey, y'all, we're going to [G] learn Wreck of the Old 97 on guitar, the G, and we're going
to learn a couple solos for it here.
It's pretty simple.
But we're going to learn much, much more than that in this lesson.
We're really going to work on our pickhand accuracy.
We're going to work on also accompanying ourselves whenever we're playing these melodies with
some rhythm type [D] stuff.
We're going to work on getting that wrist real loose [F#] and not using our elbow, but using
that [G] wrist to play this rhythm.
[D] You know, I remember when I first started to learn how to play guitar, even just hitting
these individual bass strings accurately seemed almost impossible to me.
And then especially doing any kind of single note runs.
[C] So [G]
we're going to build those skills here [F#] today with this lesson.
We're going to do it while learning a cool song, Wreck of the Old 97.
So let's go ahead and throw up this first line of tab here.
You'll notice a couple things.
One is this song's in 4-4.
That just means we have four beats per measure.
And then also we have those little arrows beneath each one of the notes.
Those are all pointing down.
That just means that's our pickhand, our pickstroke indication.
So we're going to do all downstrokes [D]
because everything's happening on downbeats here.
Okay, so we're going to start on the third beat of the first measure, [E] walking in with
a couple quarter notes.
So it's going to sound like this.
One, two, [B] three, [D] four, one.
And whenever we get into measure two, we have two half notes there.
They get two beats a piece.
And the reason why we know they're half notes here on the tab is because the little stems
beneath them only come up a little ways.
They don't come all the way up to the notes.
So that's how we know they get two beats.
So one, two, three, four.
And then we go back down to the A string, measure three.
[B] One, two.
And then we have a couple [G] quarter notes.
[B] Three, four.
So nothing too hard right now.
We're just [C] establishing this basic melody that we're going to use later on as we start
adding these rhythm licks.
Measure four, we've got two half notes.
One, two, three, four.
We're doing a C chord here, right?
[A] Measure [Em] five.
One, two, three, four.
So we have a quarter note, half note, quarter note.
And then measure six is two [D] half notes.
One, two, [G] three, four.
Let me play measures one through six all together.
We'll do it much slower later on in a different video segment here in the lesson.
One, two, three, four.
[D] One, two, three, four.
[Bm] [G] One, two, three, [C] four.
One, two, three, [Em] four.
One, two, three, [E] four.
One, two, [G] three, four.
And I want to make sure of a couple things here before we move on.
I want to make sure that all of these notes are good and strong.
Okay?
I want to make sure that all these notes have similar volumes.
Okay?
We don't want some notes jumping out over others.
I also want to [Gm] make sure that I'm not doing this with my elbow and keeping everything stiff.
I want to make sure that my wrist is working much in this fashion here.
And you can anchor a finger if you want.
Some people will teach that.
I'm not going to do that.
I'm going to lightly feel those bridge pins on the back of my [B] palm there.
Okay?
Just to get a little of my bearings.
[C] And then I want to make sure that I'm striking the notes with more of a wrist
movement, and then I do a little bit of thumb in there as well.
[D] Just a little bit.
Not as much as Tony Rice would do, but [G#] a little bit in there.
Now, as we go into measure seven, it's really simple.
We've [C] got two quarter, two [A] half notes.
One, two, [G] three, four.
Then the song goes to a D [F#] chord, so we're going to play this fourth fret here on the D string.
And it lasts a whole measure and then some.
It ties over through the first two beats of measure nine.
So, one, two, three, four, [E] one, two.
[D] And then we come back here with a half.
Three, [G] four, one, two, three, four.
Back into that [D] G chord.
One, two, three, [G] four, one, two, [Em] three, four.
Into a C chord, [C] measure 12.
One, two, three, four.
I'll play seven through [A] 12.
One, two, three, [F#m] four.
One, two, three, four.
One, [D] two, three, four.
One, two, [G] three, four.
One, two, [Em] three, [C] four.
One, two, three, four.
13.
[C] One, two, three, four.
Then we just have four quarter notes walking around the [E] scale here in 14.
One, two, [C] three, four.
Then walk it right on down.
One, [A] two, three, four, [G] one.
And we have a big, long note there again.
[B] And then at the end of 17, [C] we walk into [D] our next little solo.
So now that we have that melody established, I want you to go back.
I want you to practice it, even maybe memorize it.
Get it [G] really strong.
Make sure that you're accurate.
And that's the thing.
I want you to play through this without looking at your pick hand.
You may be left-handed or right-handed,
but I don't want you to look at the hand that's holding the pick.
I want you to be able to [B] read through this tab or memorize it, whatever,
[D] and hit all of those notes without having to look down.
And if you [Em] begin to miss notes, hit the wrong string or just miss a string,
slow it down.
Just slow it down a little bit.
We're really working on pick accuracy here.
[E] And we're going to drive that home even more now in the second segment
as we begin to add [B] strums.
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1321
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[G] _ _ _ _ _ Bum, bum, dum!
_ Howdy, welcome to BanjoBandClark.com.
I am Banjo Ben, your host here on the website to teach you how to play banjo, of course,
[N] mandolin, and also guitar.
And that's what we have this week.
We've got a great lesson this week.
We're going to work on a lot of technique, as well as learn a few solos to this old tune,
Wreck of the Old 97.
We're going to really work on our pickhand, getting accurate with it, getting loose with
it, and getting strong with it.
Accurate, loose, strong.
Those are all three things that we want to have associated with our pickhand.
If you're watching this on Facebook or YouTube here in a moment, I ask you to come over to
the website, BanjoBandClark.com.
You can join as a Go Pick member, have access to this 20-plus minute lesson, as well as
hundreds of others that I have over there.
I also have the tabs for this exactly as I performed it, and then three different speeds
of rhythm, MP3 tracks you can download and practice along with me.
All right, let's dive right into this one.
Hey, y'all, we're going to [G] learn Wreck of the Old 97 on guitar, the G, and we're going
to learn a couple solos for it here.
It's pretty simple.
But we're going to learn much, much more than that in this lesson.
We're really going to work on our pickhand accuracy.
We're going to work on also accompanying ourselves whenever we're playing these melodies with
some rhythm type [D] stuff.
We're going to work on getting that wrist real loose [F#] and not using our elbow, but using
that [G] wrist to play this rhythm.
[D] You know, I remember when I first started to learn how to play guitar, even just hitting
these individual bass strings accurately seemed almost impossible to me.
And then especially doing any kind of single note runs.
[C] So _ _ _ _ _ _ _ [G] _
_ _ we're going to build those skills here [F#] today with this lesson.
We're going to do it while learning a cool song, Wreck of the Old 97.
So let's go ahead and throw up this first line of tab here.
You'll notice a couple things.
One is this song's in 4-4.
That just means we have four beats per measure.
And then also we have those little arrows beneath each one of the notes.
Those are all pointing down.
That just means that's our pickhand, our pickstroke indication.
So we're going to do all downstrokes [D]
because everything's happening on downbeats here.
Okay, so we're going to start on the third beat of the first measure, [E] walking in with
a couple quarter notes.
So it's going to sound like this.
One, two, [B] three, [D] four, one.
And whenever we get into measure two, we have two half notes there.
They get two beats a piece.
And the reason why we know they're half notes here on the tab is because the little stems
beneath them only come up a little ways.
They don't come all the way up to the notes.
So that's how we know they get two beats.
So one, two, three, four.
And then we go back down to the A string, measure three.
[B] One, two.
And then we have a couple [G] quarter notes.
[B] Three, four.
So nothing too hard right now.
We're just [C] establishing this basic melody that we're going to use later on as we start
adding these rhythm licks.
Measure four, we've got two half notes.
One, two, three, four.
We're doing a C chord here, right?
[A] Measure [Em] five.
One, two, three, four.
So we have a quarter note, half note, quarter note.
And then measure six is two [D] half notes.
One, two, [G] three, four.
Let me play measures one through six all together.
We'll do it much slower later on in a different video segment here in the lesson.
One, two, three, four.
[D] One, two, three, four.
[Bm] _ [G] One, two, three, [C] four.
One, _ two, three, [Em] four.
One, two, three, [E] four.
One, two, [G] three, four.
And I want to make sure of a couple things here before we move on.
I want to make sure that all of these notes are good and strong.
Okay?
I want to make sure that all these notes have similar volumes.
Okay?
We don't want some notes jumping out over others.
I also want to [Gm] make sure that I'm not doing this with my elbow and keeping everything stiff.
I want to make sure that my wrist is working much in this fashion here.
And you can anchor a finger if you want.
Some people will teach that.
I'm not going to do that.
I'm going to lightly feel those bridge pins on the back of my [B] palm there.
Okay?
Just to get a little of my bearings.
[C] And then I want to make sure that I'm striking the notes with more of a wrist
movement, and then I do a little bit of thumb in there as well.
[D] Just a little bit.
Not as much as Tony Rice would do, but [G#] a little bit in there.
Now, as we go into measure seven, it's really simple.
We've [C] got two quarter, two [A] half notes.
One, two, [G] three, four.
Then the song goes to a D [F#] chord, so we're going to play this fourth fret here on the D string.
And it lasts a whole measure and then some.
It ties over through the first two beats of measure nine.
So, one, two, three, four, [E] one, two.
[D] And then we come back here with a half.
Three, [G] four, one, two, three, four.
Back into that [D] G chord.
One, two, three, [G] four, one, two, [Em] three, four.
Into a C chord, [C] measure 12.
One, two, three, four.
I'll play seven through [A] 12.
One, two, three, [F#m] four.
One, two, three, four.
One, [D] two, three, four.
One, two, [G] three, four.
One, two, [Em] three, [C] four.
One, two, three, four.
13.
[C] One, two, three, four.
Then we just have four quarter notes walking around the [E] scale here in 14.
One, two, [C] three, four.
Then walk it right on down.
One, [A] two, three, four, [G] one.
And we have a big, long note there again.
[B] And then at the end of 17, [C] we walk into [D] our next little solo.
So now that we have that melody established, I want you to go back.
I want you to practice it, even maybe memorize it.
Get it [G] really strong.
Make sure that you're accurate.
And that's the thing.
I want you to play through this without looking at your pick hand.
You may be left-handed or right-handed,
but I don't want you to look at the hand that's holding the pick.
I want you to be able to [B] read through this tab or memorize it, whatever,
[D] and hit all of those notes without having to look down.
And if you [Em] begin to miss notes, _ hit the wrong string or just miss a string,
slow it down.
Just slow it down a little bit.
We're really working on pick accuracy here.
[E] And we're going to drive that home even more now in the second segment
as we begin to add [B] strums.
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[G] _ _ _ _ [D] _ _ _ _
[G] _ _ _ _ [C] _ _ _ [G] _
_ _ [A] _ _ _ _ _ _

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