So I've been watching the video skotdee posted of JJ's acoustic show in JAX and trying to figure out how to play Ybor City. I have most of the song down but the one part where JJ plays high up on the neck has me stumped. It looks like he keeps the same finger position as the E chord up on the 13th and 14th frets but I can't tell what he's doing with his pinky finger. Any gee-tar players around that can help me out??
Don't know if it will help, but I have a video of Ybor City coming, has a little bit more of a close up of what JJ is doing on guitar than the CD Connection video. Hopefully it helps you out. Let me know...
---------- Delerious Tyme
Mofro for life in Arizona The Rhythm Room is exactly that when the boys are kicking it here. "Walking on Moonlight in the Day."
By no means do I call myself a guitar "player". I own a guitar and I am learning. In my humble opinion it appears that he is just playing the same E shape down there and the pinky is actually doing nothing but trying to get out of the way while he squeezes his other fingers in to make the E shape.
Delerious - Excellent, hopefully it will show it from a different angle.
DABoccio - That's what I thought at first too but it just doesn't sound right to me. The B and E strings sound to low. Making an E bar chord down there sounds right but you can tell that's not what he's doing. Of course it's always possible JJ has his guitar tuned differently. ---------- Matthew Brazier
Last Edited by on Sep 17, 2008 8:40 AM
I think the actual version that I have picture is a little bit more refined, let me know if you still have trouble and I will see if I can send you the file instead of relying on the you tube picture definition. The beginning riffs come out great from the side where you can really see what he is doing with his hands.
Hope this helps you.
---------- Delerious Tyme
Mofro for life in Arizona The Rhythm Room is exactly that when the boys are kicking it here. "Walking on Moonlight in the Day."
Let me again begin this with I am no expert, but it looks to me like he plays it differently acoustic than he does electric. The electric version he's doing more picking and bending and the acoustic version appears to be some funky chord shape I can't quite figure out. I originally thought it was the E shape but after further review it appears to be something else.
The reason he has the wierd chord on the acoustic version is cuz he was playing it in the wrong key. Instead of F he was playing it in E. Check out the taped version on the archive and listen to him talk after he plays the song, he remarks, "for anyone paying attention, the song is normally in F. Good ol' E, can't go wrong with E." That is why it probably sounds off when you are playing the E and comparing it to the acoustic version, instead, you should compare it to the album version and play it in F. Probably not the best thing to try and play exactly what JJ did at the acoustic set for CD Connection when he played it in the wrong key in the first place.
---------- Delerious Tyme
Mofro for life in Arizona The Rhythm Room is exactly that when the boys are kicking it here. "Walking on Moonlight in the Day."
Last Edited by on Sep 17, 2008 9:56 AM
all that said, no offense to JJ for playing it in the wrong key, it still sounded stellar to me. No offense to JJ in anything I say or do, to me the guy can do no wrong. I'm just happy that he shares his music with us, I can't get enough of it, wrong key or not, it rocks...
---------- Delerious Tyme
Mofro for life in Arizona The Rhythm Room is exactly that when the boys are kicking it here. "Walking on Moonlight in the Day."
Mofro for life in Arizona The Rhythm Room is exactly that when the boys are kicking it here. "Walking on Moonlight in the Day."
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