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I'm curious as to what kind of chords he uses in songs like " Krill Slippin " & " The Goodbye "... are these triads? I want to incorporate this in my pmaying and just curious as to where to start... thanx guys

Those two are nice tunes. Would you post a link to them and indicate some time intervals within them. I could then try to figure out what notes and chords JT is playing.

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The Goodbye
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=t9SNSkUgCH4

The whole first minute

Krill Slippin
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=BSrAqghnmpI

In particular from :38-:50 seconds

That's what I'm looking to learn... Thanx guys

Jim plays a lot of open strings in his chords. From memory, Krill Slippin's main theme is Am - Fmaj7 - G - Am.

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Jim touches the naked face of god and requires no mere mortal chords. Thanks for listening to my TED Talk.

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Cool

I made a video of my take on how to play seconds 38-50 of Krill Slippin.

It’s a 7-minute video of how to play 12 seconds of music. Pretty challenging to play, I think. Thanks to my son for teaching me some video editing techniques.

I don't know when I'll have the energy to work on the first 60 seconds of The Goodbye.

If I'd stop buying old guitars to fix, I might actually learn to play.
Bringing instruments back to life since 2013.

Last edited: Jul 22, 2019 10:57:45

Thanx for the time & effort, Idk.. this definitely helped me out... a question ... these types of chords called? Are they a particular position or TYPE of chord, these ones higher on the neck?

I’m glad I could help. After this bit of work, I’ve decided to learn the whole song, and I’ve got the first minute learned so far.

For the 38-50 second portion, the melody is built around C major and G major chords. I don’t know if there’s any special name for the G major chord you get, for example, by barring across strings 2, 3, and 4 at the 12th fret, other than it being a second inversion.

Near the beginning of the song, there are A minor, F major 7th (as pointed out by ELZEB), and G 6th chords. Other than that, I don’t know.

If I'd stop buying old guitars to fix, I might actually learn to play.
Bringing instruments back to life since 2013.

Last edited: Jul 29, 2019 13:39:39

Hey what about the main riff? I've tinkered around with it bit don't feel like I've got it juat right... any ideas?

Jim probably plays it a little different each time. But here's a nice view from a few years ago:

https://youtu.be/eY4lByEEcPw

Last edited: Nov 23, 2019 13:27:56

OaklandA wrote:

Jim probably plays it a little different each time. But here's a nice view from a few years ago:

https://youtu.be/eY4lByEEcPw

Great video. Thanks for posting it. Makes working out this song a lot easier. Nice that the camera basically never leaves Jim!

Cool thread. Krill Slippin’ is such a great tune.

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