Elsie Marley Taught by Duck Baker

Elsie Marley Taught by Duck Baker And right now I’ll give you and idea of what this famous Elsie Marley tunes sounds like. [Demonstration] There’s Elsie Marley. “Di` ye ken Elsie Marley” is what the song says. Ken of course is not an English word. They used it up in – there and the Scotties and I think it’s the Scandinavian one. Di` ye know what Elsie Marley and you will very soon. It’s not a very hard tune to play though in that arrangement I taught it was good enough that I put it on the record sometime ago. So it’s to be fairly easy to do but you can perform a version of it. If you want to get the words—I learned it from a recordings by a group called the high level renders made some excellent records back in the 60’s, 70’s for a topic of Jordy North Amberlin folk songs. That was one that Tom Gil on so that was one that Tom Gil felon saying for the high level renters. What we’re going to do now is go over the guitar version of Elsie Marley. Now without the word this is in 6, 8 times, so it’s very similar to what we need to play jigs which are the 6, 8 tune the sort of da- da —. I reach wash a woman that kind of feeling and this is one way to do that. You usually in this sort of thing we’re going to have as we do in these tune two base notes for the bar each going with the — well if there are three notes you’ll go over it when they’re all eight notes. Well if it goes that da—da – da then like that if you’ll get out a basement for each of those phrases. When we start it off just sort of the recap or the preview on how it’s going to be. We’re going to split the screen and men and I’ll go all over the whole thing slowly and you’ll be able to look at the left hand and the right hand but before we get to that I’ll just sort of give you a preview of what to expect. The right hand on this is fairly straight forward so we won’t have to be too concern with it and what I’m doing here I’m using the 3 fingers besides my thumb on my right hand. The ring finger is going to be responsible for the high string, little finger for the second string and index finger for the third string. If you’re not used to using your ring finger, this will be a good tune to try that technique because I always teach them the beginning soon to use that ring finger on the right hand that way when we don’t need it you don’t have to use but you never have to think about it again. Now most of what we’re going to be involved here is look at the left hand. I might teach you something right now, right at the beginning of this lesson that Andres Segovia went to his grave not knowing that is the secret chord in the guitar. And it’s made with your thumb and of course I would associate them with that kind of thing. Actually, I’m joking obviously and class for guitar players will use their left thumb when they absolutely have to they just try to pretend they want. But this is a great chord when you’re finger tip and you’re trying to get that sort of chord notes going on the base which we saw off and want to do wit this particular shape. You’ve got a great way to play a G chord, you got four fingers here for you to do all kinds of things, and you don’t have to worry about one of these fingers here being taken up for that base now. So we’re starting out right at the beginning to teach you that secret chord and that’s what’s going to happen when we’re doing all these stuff. And there’s not really going to be too much is difficult if you notice that this is like looking like a little abbreviated F chord like this but moved up two frets just what’s your first two fingers there covering the top three strings. This can be a little bit of a stretch in the last thing because you’re going down to where there would be an F position but you’re keeping your thumb hoped around. Again I might show you something out that feels like a big stretch and you want to get how to do that and I can’t possibly reach out with there with my thumb and the way to do it is that and now I’m going to go to the 4rth fret. You got more impossible stretch and I’ll try the 5th where you get to happen where it’s really impossible continues stretch like that when you go back to the original position you’ll find that it’s easy. Now that seems like a game it seems like a joke but what in fact happens is that you just stretch out the muscles as any runner can tell you. Before you go for a run you’ll stretch out those leg muscles and you’ll actually get a couple of several inches more stretch on it you can do the same thing in your left hand. So for the stretch or any stretch that you encounter really with your left hand on the guitar remember that little trick there it will help you. We have this one phrase that recourse a lot. Always ends every section of the Elsie Marley. It’s not very hard you have this little shape here. The 5th fret was it to your fingers on the first and third string. That’s the 3rd fret and the 4rth string. And this is just going to an F chord and it is gone F with your thumb here. If you peak or absolutely allergic to use in your thumbs I’ll allow you like a bar code there but the beginning part of this you’re really going to have to get used to use in the thumb. I think we can actually go ahead and split the screen the second part shouldn’t present great difficulties and so I have a normal first position chords. So I think right now I’m going to get the screens put here you get a left hand over the right hand and I’ll play it through your Elsie Marley a couple of times real slow and after that I’ll bring it up to speed. Stretch, secret chord, the stretch, There’s a little ask don’t move the ring finger on that because that all mean. Here ring finger stays the same there back to the secret chord, stretch. Here’s our F. Use the middle finger up and then back down for that one. Now way we go.