This is just great!!! You know, the writer of this song has a youtube channel. We could all rally him to do a video for us, or to show us how it was done.
How awesome! I use to be intimidated by that song to learn it but I always loved the ending credits to that show. Didn't realize it was so simple. Hilarious to know the lyrics are just nonesense; not even comprehensive. Thank you for posting this! Also grew up as a fan of the show.
Jeff. VERY nice ..I am a HUGE fan off the show, also. I have been blessed with the ENTIRE series with 24-25 min episodes. All music with even the Grateful dead(a date w.jennifer) and the Captain beefheart track on the contest you could never win. It Point is, I am 32 and this show still works!! I love this and will Sub.Excellent riff, very nice teaching and thanks. "you are undermining my authority with the deejays"..lol rock on Jeff!
Sorry for the barely coherent English there, but I'm tired. I was just watching another guy's video on this guitar part, and he was getting some things well, but was still missing other parts by making them trickier than they are.
A general rule of thumb is: if it's too hard to play comfortably, you're probably doing it wrong. Experiment with note and chord position options, and eventually it will become more intuitive to gravitate towards the easiest way of playing things.
Try voicing the opening chords on upper 4 strings to start with a high pedal-E (on the A-E part, and the same dropping a tone with a high pedal-E to the G-D). It really puts bite into the part, and meshes well with bass guitar's low-E pedal.
The piano and bass play octaves in the ascending chromatic section, but the guitar part is even cooler: it starts out with ascending minor-7ths, and then brings out the tritone on the middle string around a couple frets up i.e. d-g#-c as it continues up.
OMG another musician (I play keyboard) who's obsessed with this song! I've been trying to find it for years so I could figure it out ! Now...finally...I understand it musically! Thank you!!!!
rduke222 was referring to the two g's, two d's, f#, g, and finally chord of the song, which is an A on the guitar and an E in the bass. If you play it right, as in seamlessly, by working out where those notes fit easiest on the guitar play, it should sound awesome, with the effect that you're play lines and chords, almost sounding like two guitars - but it really is just one guitar on the original track. Listen carefully, and there is a cool, low lick in the 9th measure.
I was trying to figure out what about this piece -- and it is impressive -- didn't sound right to me... and I think that it's that on the melodic/chromatic 3-runs at the ends of the phrases... the original is either reverse-arpeggiated picking the chords, or the player is doing something really weird that isn't that.
Course, I can only describe it, not play it, so I'm not entitled to an opinion. :-) Nice.
Getting this inside of my brain once a week as a little kid really trained me to be a rock n' roller. Behaviorist conditioning, I think, that immunized me from the Lawrence Welk I heard at my Grandparents'. Now I'll enjoy playing it!
This is just great!!! You know, the writer of this song has a youtube channel. We could all rally him to do a video for us, or to show us how it was done.
analyzingfunny 2 months ago
How awesome! I use to be intimidated by that song to learn it but I always loved the ending credits to that show. Didn't realize it was so simple. Hilarious to know the lyrics are just nonesense; not even comprehensive. Thank you for posting this! Also grew up as a fan of the show.
arinrobinson 6 months ago
cool dude
tubedudeT2000 6 months ago
The chords E, A and B establish the key of E. It may modulate for a few measures but it's ultimately in the key of E. :)
StormyKniight 7 months ago
Meow! Indeed!
wileycoyote64 7 months ago
Awesome job, very well done.
fourbyfourer 8 months ago
Get down.
Potrzebie 9 months ago
Jeff. VERY nice ..I am a HUGE fan off the show, also. I have been blessed with the ENTIRE series with 24-25 min episodes. All music with even the Grateful dead(a date w.jennifer) and the Captain beefheart track on the contest you could never win. It Point is, I am 32 and this show still works!! I love this and will Sub.Excellent riff, very nice teaching and thanks. "you are undermining my authority with the deejays"..lol rock on Jeff!
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Gregoryspegal 10 months ago
Sorry for the barely coherent English there, but I'm tired. I was just watching another guy's video on this guitar part, and he was getting some things well, but was still missing other parts by making them trickier than they are.
A general rule of thumb is: if it's too hard to play comfortably, you're probably doing it wrong. Experiment with note and chord position options, and eventually it will become more intuitive to gravitate towards the easiest way of playing things.
hankfletcher 10 months ago
Try voicing the opening chords on upper 4 strings to start with a high pedal-E (on the A-E part, and the same dropping a tone with a high pedal-E to the G-D). It really puts bite into the part, and meshes well with bass guitar's low-E pedal.
The piano and bass play octaves in the ascending chromatic section, but the guitar part is even cooler: it starts out with ascending minor-7ths, and then brings out the tritone on the middle string around a couple frets up i.e. d-g#-c as it continues up.
hankfletcher 10 months ago
Dude, this was awesome. Wish I had a guitar like that one.
Dukklord 1 year ago
OMG another musician (I play keyboard) who's obsessed with this song! I've been trying to find it for years so I could figure it out ! Now...finally...I understand it musically! Thank you!!!!
msmensa 1 year ago
On reading the other comments, I'm complaining, I guess, about the same thing rduke222 is: are there actually *two* electrics playing this track?
utubesnamepolsux 1 year ago
@utubesnamepolsux
No, but there's piano.
hankfletcher 10 months ago
@utubesnamepolsux
rduke222 was referring to the two g's, two d's, f#, g, and finally chord of the song, which is an A on the guitar and an E in the bass. If you play it right, as in seamlessly, by working out where those notes fit easiest on the guitar play, it should sound awesome, with the effect that you're play lines and chords, almost sounding like two guitars - but it really is just one guitar on the original track. Listen carefully, and there is a cool, low lick in the 9th measure.
hankfletcher 10 months ago
I was trying to figure out what about this piece -- and it is impressive -- didn't sound right to me... and I think that it's that on the melodic/chromatic 3-runs at the ends of the phrases... the original is either reverse-arpeggiated picking the chords, or the player is doing something really weird that isn't that.
Course, I can only describe it, not play it, so I'm not entitled to an opinion. :-) Nice.
utubesnamepolsux 1 year ago
Getting this inside of my brain once a week as a little kid really trained me to be a rock n' roller. Behaviorist conditioning, I think, that immunized me from the Lawrence Welk I heard at my Grandparents'. Now I'll enjoy playing it!
dowhatthouwilt911 1 year ago
song @ 2:32
this is cool
eslubin 1 year ago
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eslubin 1 year ago
Dude, I'm not a guitarist, and I want to tell you that I love this.
altiparmakis 1 year ago
Very good...except you didn't play the best part of the song...the last seven notes just before the "meow".
rduke222 1 year ago
Not bac can you play folk music?
foggyshores 1 year ago