MELODIC MUSE by Andy Timmons
PICK AND ROLL
Using hybrid picking, and how to play “Triple J Hoedown”
Josh Smith breaks down his song, “Triple J Hoedown,” which was originally recorded for his 2009 album, Inception. In this lesson we check out the more recent live version, from Josh's new Live at the Spud record, which was recorded at the legendary Baked Potato in Los Angeles.
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PICK AND ROLL
Using hybrid picking, and how to play “Triple J Hoedown”
Josh Smith breaks down his song, “Triple J Hoedown,” which was originally recorded for his 2009 album, Inception. In this lesson we check out the more recent live version, from Josh's new Live at the Spud record, which was recorded at the legendary Baked Potato in Los Angeles.
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00:00 [EXPLOSION]
00:04 All right, Josh Smith here.
00:06 Today I want to talk a little bit about a tune called
00:08 "Triple J Hoedown."
00:10 This is a song that originally appeared on my Inception album,
00:13 but we're going to talk about the live version that's
00:15 on my most recent album, "Live at the Spud,"
00:17 recorded at the Baked Potato in Los Angeles, California.
00:20 "Triple J" is slightly a bit of an opus.
00:24 I wrote this tune when I was 17, and it
00:26 has lots of twists and turns.
00:29 I wanted a tune that kind of went through a lot of variations
00:32 and had a lot of stuff in it.
00:33 But at its heart, it's kind of a bluegrass rock fusion tune,
00:39 where I'm doing a lot of hybrid picking.
00:42 It's in the key of G, and it starts like this.
00:45 [MUSIC - "TRIPLE J HOEDOWN"]
00:48 [BASS PLAYING]
00:52 So that's a lick where the bass is pedaling G,
01:04 and we're walking down from D to C to B to B flat over G.
01:12 And I'm hybrid picking all of that.
01:13 [BASS PLAYING]
01:17 And then we go into this phrase.
01:19 [BASS PLAYING]
01:22 So that's--
01:31 [BASS PLAYING]
01:35 But I'm playing it hybrid picking.
01:41 [BASS PLAYING]
01:46 So that's kind of the second phrase of the song.
01:48 And here's the third, which is basically the melody.
01:51 [BASS PLAYING]
02:14 So that's going from G to E minor, the one to the six.
02:17 So--
02:17 [BASS PLAYING]
02:21 So then it goes--
02:35 we'll walk up, a chromatic walk up, kind of a Beatles-y thing
02:38 from C.
02:38 [BASS PLAYING]
02:42 [BASS PLAYING]
02:45 So that's the main bulk of the song, the beginning,
03:01 before we get into the first variation.
03:06 Coming up is a big unison lick, and then we
03:08 go into the next B section of the song.
03:11 But that's the bulk of the intro.
03:15 [BASS PLAYING]
03:18 (upbeat music)