00:00Hey, Josh Smith here again. We're in our fourth lesson on Triple J Hoedown, my tune from Live
00:10at the Spud. We're up to the solo, where I've built the solo up from the open section into
00:14this 12-bar blues with a 2-5-1 turnaround, and I throw it all at this solo. So I'm going
00:19to play through an entire chorus, and we'll talk about what's going on. So it's basically
00:25a blues. I'm going to play full 12 bars. One, two, three. Anyways, we play two of those
00:54in the song, and of course I'm just making that all up as I go along. But I played a
00:58bunch of stuff in there, and it would be different every night because it's an improvisation.
01:04But basically, I started off with open G stuff. So it went from kind of open stuff to a regular
01:15blues chromatic lick, with a little open string droning happening there. When we got
01:23to the four, I played a cool old blues, country blues thing in C, which is really cool. And
01:38I like to play that a lot, especially when C is not the one chord. When you play a lick
01:42like that over the four, man, it's like this tension is so real that when you resolve,
01:53it's a big moment, you know? Then we got to the 2-5-1, and I played an arpeggio from A
02:04minor to D7, and then back to G. And I played a full chorus of blues like that. Then I do
02:19another one. I ended it, of course, with the blues turnaround. Just because I like to have
02:26something standard at the end for the non-musicians in the audience that they can grab onto. Because
02:31by then, we're getting a little carried away with ourselves. After that, we're back into the
02:36last theme of the song, which is back to the... We play all three themes. And we finally end back
02:49up at the intro. And we rephrase the big lick. We all end with that big downbeat. That's Triple
03:13J hoedown. There's a lot going on in that song. I wrote it a long time ago, and I'm just glad
03:18people like it.
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