Josh Smith - Trio Madness, And How To Play 'Triple J Hoedown' Part 3 - video Dailymotion

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We’ve previously looked at Josh Smith's tune “Triple J Hoedown,” specifically the live version, from his album Live at the Spud, recorded at the Baked Potato in Los Angeles. We’ve made it all the way up to the solo section (at least his solo)! In this video, he'd like to walk you through his approach to the first part of his solo section.

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00:00all right Josh Smith here again we've been talking about my tune Triple J Hoedown the live version

00:10from Live at the Spud for the last couple months and we've made it up to the solo section at least

00:14my solo and so this tune the solo starts with a very open section almost just me and drums for a

00:23while so in a trio format you're already afforded so much freedom and by freedom I mean freedom to

00:31rhythmically do what I want freedom to harmonically do what I want because I'm not tethered down to

00:37anybody else's polyphonic chords or you know harmony freedom to you know use different sounds

00:44like Leslie's and things like that that sometimes I would stray away from when I have other

00:48instrumentation and this song is a great example of that because I can kind of go anywhere and I do

00:53on this recording you know it's different than any other night's recording of this tune so we start

00:59off in this big open G and basically the guys are following me waiting for me to play certain cues

01:08and things and I kind of go where I want so I start with a lot of open string hybrid stuff

01:14I think my first lick actually is

01:17so that lick is just a you know kind of major pentatonic with a lot of chromatic notes in

01:30between and open strings but what I really love is that that tension at the end when I play the

01:35ringing open G with the F

01:37and resolve it those kind of things when it's just you and drums or the bass is pedaling a whole

01:44note or something you know the audience reacts to things like that because it's tension

01:49so the solo kind of starts like that and you can hear what an improv it is in the solo

01:54because I think at one point I actually quote a Thelonious Monk song called Well You Need It

02:00and I couldn't do that if I had a keyboard player playing just the changes to the song you know

02:10what I mean I couldn't just go wherever I want at any moment so the trio format allows me the freedom

02:16to do those kind of things and then the guys have played with me a lot so they listen and and you

02:21know that's not something I would play there every night but they know that song so the second I play

02:25it Travis plays you know underneath it and Gary reacts to it and again that's just the benefits

02:33and and and you know some of the great things about playing in a trio but also playing with

02:37the same guys a lot and starting to develop that language together

02:41so this solo has so many different things going on I go from straight up hybrid picking country

02:50stuff like that

02:54to really jazzy stuff

02:59until basically I keep raising the intensity but I'm building towards when I will bring Travis back in

03:19and we're going to change it from a vamp on the one to a blues progression with a two five one

03:24turnaround so you'll hear me kind of build it

03:27and I'll play I'll kind of keep building it

03:38basically I just cue visually again one of the perks of playing with guys often and and being

03:56able to look over and just cue okay here we go I'm cueing to the four chord on a blues and from

04:01there we're in a blues progression so I walk

04:04and then we're playing a two five one so I play some stuff like

04:18so right there I played an A minor arpeggio A minor seven to to a D

04:32and then back to G in place of the normal five four turnaround in a blues

04:41we do two two choruses of that where I'm playing through the changes

04:46all right so the next month I'm going to come back and play through a full course

04:49and show you all the ways to get around this groove

04:52over the changes through the two five one

04:55and I throw the kitchen sink in so we're going to we're going to look for that next month

04:59you

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