00:00 Hey, Josh Smith here again. We're in our fourth lesson on Triple J Hoedown, my tune from Live
00:09 at the Spud. We're up to the solo, where I've built the solo up from the open section into
00:14 this 12-bar blues with a 2-5-1 turnaround, and I throw it all at this solo. So I'm going
00:19 to play through an entire chorus, and we'll talk about what's going on. So it's basically
00:24 a blues. I'm going to play full 12 bars. One, two, three. Anyways, we play two of those
00:54 in the song, and of course I'm just making that all up as I go along, but I played a
00:58 bunch of stuff in there, and it would be different every night because it's an improvisation,
01:03 but basically I started off with open G stuff. So it went from kind of open stuff to a regular
01:15 blues chromatically with a little open string droning happening there. When we got to the
01:23 fourth, I played a cool old blues, country blues thing in C, which is really cool. And
01:38 I like to play that a lot, especially when C is not the one chord. When you play a lick
01:42 like that over the four, man, it's like this tension is so real that when you resolve,
01:53 it's a big moment, you know? So then we got to the 2-5-1, and I played an arpeggio from
02:04 A minor to D7, and then back to G. And I played a full chorus of blues like that. Then I do
02:19 another one. I ended it, of course, with the blues turnaround. That's because I like to
02:26 have something standard at the end for the non-musicians in the audience that they can
02:30 grab onto, because by then we're getting a little carried away with ourselves. After
02:35 that, we're back into the last theme of the song, which is back to the... We play all
02:44 three themes. And we finally end back up at the intro. And we rephrase the big lick. We
03:09 all end with that big downbeat. And that's "Triple J Hoedown." There's a lot going on
03:15 in that song. I wrote it a long time ago, and I'm just glad people like it.
03:19 [laughs]
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