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 to play
00:20through an entire chorus, and we'll talk about what's going on. So it's basically a blues. I'm
00:25going to play a full 12 bars. One, two, three.
00:31Anyways, we played two of those in the song, and of course I'm just making that all up as I go along,
00:57but I played a bunch of stuff in there, and it would be different every night because it's an
01:02improvisation. But basically, I started off with open G stuff. So it went from kind of open stuff
01:13to a regular blues chromatically, 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.
01:38And I like to play that a lot, especially when C is not the one chord. When you play a lick like that
01:42over the four, man, it's just it's like this tension is so real that when you resolve
01:52it's a big moment, you know? So
01:57then we got to the 2-5-1, and I played an arpeggio
02:03from A minor
02:04to D7, and then back to G. And I played a full chorus of blues like that. Then I do another one.
02:20I ended it, of course, with the blues turnaround.
02:25Just because I like to have something standard at the end for the non-musicians in the audience that
02:29they can grab onto. Because by then, we're getting a little carried away with ourselves.
02:34After that, we're back into the last theme of the song, which is back to the...
02:44We play all three themes.
02:48And we finally end back up at the intro.
02:50And we rephrase the big lick.
03:09We all end with that big downbeat.
03:12And that's Triple J Hoedown.
03:14There's a lot going on in that song. I wrote it a long time ago,
03:18and I'm just glad people like it.
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