[insert "now I'm really scratchin' my head" icon here]
.Got a request to work this one up for our Monday night Trio jam, so I went to the JGB vids.
Watch how Jer uses his thumb to grab the quick slide-up, at exactly 4:21.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rHZkw_AYlag&NR=1
Other vids:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CNvO7zEO ... re=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=01FUkBYz ... re=related
Some observations...
The intro - Based on how I see Jer playing it live (He catches the F and C mainly with just his pinky - also, I don't think he plays the first string on any of these chords, but I put it in anyway):
------F---Em-Dm-Am----C----G---F
E|--------7----5----5----------3----1--
B|--10---8----6----5-----5----3----1--
G|--10---9----7----5-----5----4----2--
D|--10---9----7----7-----5----5----3--
A|--------7----5----7----------3----3--
E|--------------------------------------
The little peal-off he does when going down to the Em of the theme lick (usually right after the phrase "Cats down under the stars" except for the very first Intro) is very similar to the Loser intro (but in Em).
E|-----------------
B|-----------------
G|-----------------
D|-----------------
A|--2--1--0--------
E|-----------3--0--
He also has at least two other licks he subs in sometimes.
Starting at the end of the word "Stars" he sometimes does this directly after the Am (going to G):
Starting ~8:43 of this You Tube:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rHZkw_AYlag&NR=1
E|-------------------------------
B|-------------------------------
G|-------------------------------
D|-------------------------------
A|-------------------------------
E|--3--2--3------1--0--1------0--
At 8:55 of the same Youtube, he plays this one (you can hear 'em both within about 10 seconds):
E|-------------------------------
B|-------------------------------
G|-------------------------------
D|--0----------------------------
A|-----2---------3--0------------
E|--------3------------1------0--
Here is the rest of the theme-lick guitar phrase. Play this right out of an open G-chord position on strings 5 and 6. Just lift/lower your index and middle fingers (like they are glued together for at least the first 8 notes, if not the whole thing) on strings 5 and 6 (you can depress both strings as if you are playing the G-chord, but only pick the string you want to hear).
E|------------------------------------------------------------------
B|------------------------------------------------------------------
G|--------------------------------------------------------0--------
D|---------------------------------------------0--2----3-----------
A|--2--0-----0----------0--2--0-----------3-----------------1/3--
E|--------3----------3-----------3-------3-------------------------
Open position chords:
-C---C------F---F--------Am--G--
Cats Down Un-der the Staa-ars
The Walkup(s) leading either to the Verse, or Satin Blouse, are just Mixo scales with a half or whole-step toggle (If you play just the first note of these triplets you will see it is a Major scale ending on a Flat 7). Instead of playing the scale in one position, Jerry moves up the neck on string 5. Again, keep your index and middle fingers basically touching each other as you ascend the half-step toggles on string 5. Play the final note with your ring finger.
Coming out of: "Cats Down Un-der The Staa-ars...
E|-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
B|-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
G|------------------------------------------------------------------------------
D|------------------------------------------------------------------------------
A|--------------------------2-----2----3--2--3----5--4--5----7--6--7----8--- C7 chord at 8th fret.
E|--3--2--3----5--3--5-------5-------------------------------------------------
This part comes a little later, but...
Leading into Satin Blouse, it's the same thing, two frets up:
E|-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
B|-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
G|-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
D|-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
A|--------------------------4-----4-----5--4--5----7--6--7----9--8--9----10--
E|--5--4--5----7--5--7-------7-------------------------------------------------
Back to the verses...
When it gets to the Verses, there is a short jam in C (and/or C7), where he plays a few bars of a Pentatonic-ee nature.
He sings the Verses in C(7) and eventually gets to the lines...
"Cla-vi-nette", "Be All right", etc... and the chords are F-Em-D
----own--way--back
E|---------7---------
B|--10----8-----7--
G|--10----9-----7--
D|--10----9-----7--
A|-------------------
E|-------------------
"I Ain't Ready Yet" is Am and D, with a lttle Am Dorian run:
Repeat 2x:
E|------------------5----5--
B|------------------5----7--
G|------------------5----7--
D|------------------7----7--
A|--7--6--5--------7----5--
E|-----------8--5--5----5---
"Think I'll take a Walk Down Town In--stead" is exactly the same as the Intro:
---F--------Em----Dm---Am----C-----G---F
Repeat the Theme Lick and Chorus, then the double walk-ups.
The "Satin Blouse Un-Button-ing" part is basically the same lick as the intro to Miss Halfstep, but with a whole step for the first note (and it's in Dm).
-----Sa--tin--Blouse--Un--Bu----tton-ing
E|--10--10----10-----10---10----10---10--
B|--10--10----10-----10---10----10---10--
G|--10--10----10-----10---10----10---10--
D|--12--10----12-----10----9-----9-----8---
A|--------------------------------------------
E|--------------------------------------------
For the "Time is a stripper" part, he drops to an A7 at the 5th fret.
"Just For You" is F-C-G (mainly on strings 2,3,4).
Time is a...-Just For You
----A7---------F----C---G--
E|--5----------5---------3--
B|--5----------6----5----3--
G|--6----------5----5----4--
D|--5----------7----5----5--
A|--7-----------------------
E|--------------------------
The second "Just For You" is the same thing, two frets lower:
----Eb-Bb-F
E|--3-----1--
B|--4--3--1--
G|--3--3--2--
D|--5--3--3--
A|-----------
E|-----------
He then jumps directly into a solo (effects loop "in") in D7.
At the end of each segment he plays a little 3 note change-up, D#,D,C:
So if you were maybe making a rhythm-guitar track to solo over, backing up a buddy on rhythm guitar, or mimicking the rhythm-keyboard (on guitar), you could play this:
-D7 jam--D#-Bb-F-
E|--------------------
B|--3------4--3--1--
G|--5------3--3--2--
D|--4------5--3--3--
A|--5----------------
E|-------------------
When he finaly gets to the end of the D7 solo, he plays the little 3 note D#,D,C thing, then repeats it a whole step lower.
He end's it on a real deliberate final 2 notes (I will show it as chords), then back to the walk-up in G.
For rhythm guitar purposes, I would play it like this (emphisize the bold notes to get the descending feel):
----D#-Bb-F----C#-Ab-Eb---Bb---F----Begin walk-up in G, and land back on a C (...and the crowd grows nuts!
)E|--------------------------------------------
B|--4--3--1------2--1--4------3---1---------
G|--3--3--2------1--1--3------3---2--------
D|--5--3--3------3--1--5------3---3--------
A|-----------------------------------3--------
E|-----------------------------------------3-- Walk-up, then last verse.
He ends it with the walk up from G to C [retard=a slowing of tempo].
What a great song!
