How to Play Big Yellow Joint from Arrested Development

Here's a little ditty where I walk you through the chords of the ever-popular song, Big Yellow Joint from the show Arrested Development.

To clarify the video (and to recant my statement of "it's an A with a B base"), the chords played here are G, Am, Bm for the walk-up into C, A7, D7 fingerpicking. Of course, with a capo on the guitar, all these chords are really up a whole step. But hey, it's how you finger 'em that counts. AMIRITE LADIES?!?!

I don't know how to teach the right hand movement, but I'm sure you can work it out. Just play along to this video or one of the rips from the show.

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• arrested development
• guitar
• big yellow joint
• joint
• banana
• alice's restaurant
• arlo guthrie

[SparkyT3D]

@Karasu76 I think you're absolutely right! Hahaha! Yep, it seems like it does that progression, but after the F is a D7. From there it sneaks back into the opening theme. :)

[Karasu76]

I think I figured a little more out! I.E. the part during the singing.

With the capo still on the 2nd fret, it's C C7 F, then a little diddle and back to the C Am7 D7 G7 deal.

What do you think?