Buster B. Jones Teaches Jerry Reed's Jiffy Jam
One of the things that I’d like to point out before I move on is during the replay of these songs the same way twice, a lot of the times you might find it in going—like that. Jim plays the same notes here and gets different warmth altogether—something like that. And he’d put in a little feels there every now and then like—so if you hear it played somewhere differently don’t feel like you’re playing it wrong. You’re just playing a different rendition of it.
Now we’re going to move along now and I'm going to teach you a wonderful little song called ‘Jiffy Jam’.
[Demonstration]
Okay there you have the song ‘Jiffy Jam’. I think you noticed the right to beginning there I embellished a little bit, and put a walking bass line in. The reason I did that was to highlight the actual base line while Jerry is playing in the song. I took it all the way up on the sixth string. Of course Jerry doesn’t do that. He’ll play the open A. Now if I put the rest of that with it, now watch the bass line.
[Demonstration]
And just slide this whole thing down—same chord shade. Okay now, pointing out once again that Jerry talking that finger up, a little piece of pop corn. He would come down and play the melody note with his thumb pick and on the third or even the second string. It didn't really matter to Jerry.
Now as a bit of handful, you don't actually have to do that. You can get a pretty good sound without it but it’s that really brings that kind of claw feel to this, so. One of the things I’d like to point out before we split the screen is right at the end of the song--excuse me the second part. Now what he’s doing is he just kind of hammering and pulling off when he walks up into this. This is your first fingers are board all the way across. That was that D9 shift again. Just try that one more time. Use sliding my bar up. Go at D7 there and then to the E.
The last thing we want to look at once again is the closing of the song. It’s a great little look up here. Now this to me is just playing out of it basically at G shade. Making it at the 7th then into a C shape like this and you can do all kinds of combinations here but this is the one Jerry had. Plays an open E—it’s a bit of a handful but I think you can get it. So I'm going to split the screen now and we’re going to try and play ‘Jiffy Jam’ real slowly.
[Demonstration]
Okay well there you have ‘Jiffy Jam’. I think you have a lot of fun with that and I think if you watched that split screen, real close from right hand you noticed that I popped in back and forth between popping the finger up here like Jerry and then playing it of course the way I do. Either one is fine.
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