Chords JLV plays in "Wait On Time"???

Just from memory, isnt it

-------
--5---
--4---
--5---
------
--5---

assuming its in the key of A..

May be useless, but thats what I play when i play it!

 

It's in B. The I chord is B9 with no root:

--x--
--7--
--6--
--7--
--6--
--x--

The IV and V chords are E9 and F#9 chords, respectively:

--7--
--7--
--7--
--6--
--x--
--x--

--9--
--9--
--9--
--8--
--x--
--x--

Jimmie may be playing the root of the IV and V on the A string, but I don't hear it.

 

Awesome. Would you guys terribly mind enlightening me to what he's playing on Scratch My Back?

I think it E7, A7, B7, but I just play those in the first position and it doesn't sound quite right.

I also try:

E7
--x--
--5--
--7--
--6--
--7--
--x--

A7
--5--
--8--
--6--
--5--
--7--
--5--

B7
--7--
--10--
--8--
--7--
--9--
--7--


But I can't figure out the hammer-ons to make it sound like the record.

 

I agree with MMW - it's the T-Bone Walker 9 chord.. And even if I didn't agree with him, I suspect he would be more likely to be right than I was!

 

Scratch My Back - sorry if the tab is all weird:

--------------0--------------
--------------------3--------
--------0/1-----------------
2------------------------2--
-----------------------------
-----------------------------

And the IV chord:

--------------5--------------
--------------------8--------
--------5/6-----------------
7------------------------7--
-----------------------------
-----------------------------

And the V:

--------------7--------------
--------------------10------
--------7/8-----------------
9----------------------------
-----------------------------
-----------------------------

Hope this makes sense!

Found this on youtube:

 

Awesome again! So it's slides, not hammers. Can't wait to get home and try this. Thanks!

 

No, it's hammers. I've never typed this much tablature before - how are hammers and pulls generally written?

 

You can also play scratch my back by just using the top four strings of the barre chord shape and using yer pinky for the accent notes.

On the record, he's doing the picking version with the slides as above, but sometimes the arpeggiated chord version sounds cool too, especially if you have a lot of tremolo going.

NOTE: just saw the note about it being hammers, not slides. I've played it all ways. "Scratch my Back" is all feel, and there's a lot of ways to skin that cat.

Get a Slim Harpo Record and you'll see all the variations in that general type of song.

 

The thing about Jimmie, is that it's usually -almost counter-intuitively- simple.That's his brilliance.

Simple 9th chords in 'Wait on Time', and just a big ol' hillbilly E7th chord down at the nut in 'Scratch My Back.'

The more you get into Jimmie's playing the more you realize/remember just how pleasurable keeping things simple can be!

 

+1000 :!:
Especially on "The Things that I used to do".
Listen to those rhythm chord punches in the background...that's pure Jimmie!

 

Cool! So I was half right, apart from the root note and the key.. thats about normal for me!!

 

Ah - that was a great gig! Monday 29th April 1985, Camden Palace, London, a free gig the night after their proper gig at Dingwalls - they were giving out free tickets as we left Dingwalls. Steve Marriot was the support act. I was down the front. Available on a DVD called Live From London. I think it might have been the first UK tour after Keith left the band.

 

So was Jimmie using Boogies? There's some kind of weird stack of wood-and-cane amps on his side...

 

Not an amp youd associate with JLV, but I suppose it being overseas he might have had to play anything that was to hand.

I love Fran Christina's drumming, he's so chilled!!