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Here is a tune I did a lesson for a few years ago, but for some reason never made it into the new forum. I seem to remember it was done back in the days where ever little byte counted and was filmed in very low resolution.
That lesson was called 'Only a Hobo'. I have since found out that it's also called 'There Will be a Happy Meeting' and Ry Cooder's version (which is similar to this version) is called 'Great Gift from Heaven' ... so there you have it. My guess is that it's a traditional tune no doubt based on a hymn. Whatever it's called, it's a beautiful piece and great fun to play once you stitch all the bits and pieces together.
It's in the key of D and in dropped D tuning, so before you do anything, lower that bass string down to D. Keep twanging the D string as you lower the bass string ... that's the note you want to match, one octave lower. You'll hear it when it does.
I used my new Michael Palm acoustic for this. Even though the recording doesn't do it justice, I think you'll agree that it's pretty sweet sounding, and it sure is a pleasure to play.
I didn't put the chord symbols in the tab. This piece is played in so many positions that I thought it would just confuse you to do so. I just named the chord so you can at least keep track of that. The progression is all in key (diatonic) almost totally based around the I-IV and V chords, the three majors of the key. There are a couple of momentary vi chords (Bm) and one momentary ii chord (Em). You will see though that a couple of the major chords have some nice suspended 4th detail added to them.
It's in 3/4 time, you'll hear me count in two bars of 3 before I come in.
I've done both sections in this lesson rather than split it into two separate lessons ... I figure most of us are on broadband now and can afford the larger file download. You'll see that the second section is really almost a repeat of the first ... it just starts differently.
All the usual rules apply -- thumb handles the bass lines, other fingers pick out the top line and chord fragments -- but there's a fair amount of traveling up and down the fretboard, so be prepared for those long leaps. Trust your fretboard markers to keep track of it all ... that's how I do it. If you've read my book
PlaneTalk you'll be able to apply that mindset to keep it all locked together. There are other ways of playing those exact same notes and figures of course -- the guitar is very neat in that regard -- but I found that the positions I use in this arrangement are the best, even if they are a little spread out.
The lilting waltz feel will probably be the trickiest aspect to nail ... that and the little 4 note hammer-on twiddly run about halfway through, but once you have pieced it all together, I'm sure you'll find as I do that it's very satisfying to play. I particularly like that combination of bass line/chords that resolve each section. Notice how the D chord in that section is played first over an F# bass note, then over an A bass note ...
This one is pretty tricky!
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