How to Play the Song "JUST AS I AM" on a Dobro

[Demonstration] Hi! Welcome to lessons with Troy.com. And today’s lesson, we’re going to learn the classic gospel tune “Just as I Am.” Let’s go and get started and what we’re going to cover here first are the first, basically, five measures. I may play it a few times to get it in your head. And I’ll zoom in with the left and zoom in with the right to show you exactly what I’m doing. Here’s what it sounds like. It’s in three or four times, and I’m playing this in the key of G—G, B, D tuning. [Demonstration] That’s what will we cover right now. Let’s try that again. [Demonstration] Let me zoom in on the left hand so you can see exactly what I’m doing. So well take this, basically measure by measure. Here’s what the first of measures sound like and look like [Demonstration]. So that’s measures one and two. What I’m doing there is I’m going to be doing a triple stop here on my sixth, fourth and third string. You can either roll that if you want them to, that or you can pick it straight. Okay, and you’re going to do a hammer on, on your third string, zero to two [Demonstration], just like that. So I hammer on, on my third string, zero to second fret. And you’re going to pick all three of those stings, the sixth, fourth and third string, you’re going to slide that up to your fourth fret, on the third string. [Demonstration] Now, the whole time, I had my ring finger back here, behind my bar and making sure that I hit my bar on the string, in front on the string behind this. So I’ve got it tilted up, just the tip of my bar hitting that. [Demonstration] And then I’ll do a little roll there, the sixth, fourth and the second string. [Demonstration] Okay, so those two measures look like. And then the third measure, what you’re going to do—this is kind of a pretty tricky part to get it in tune. You’re going to be playing your third, second, and first string, you’re going to slide up from your first fret to your third fret there on your second string. You’re going to play all three of these together. And the tricky part is to try to get that note in tune because it’s a unison note with your first string. They’re both D notes. So you don’t want it too far behind, it’s going to be flatter, you know, too far in front. So find where that note is in tune, just practice sliding to that note in tune. [Demonstration] By all three of those and you do a double stop, open first string in this first fret of my second string, another double stop, open second string and open third sting and that’s measured through you. And these measure I’m referring to in the tablature—we’re trying to suggest to have the tab, go and print it out and set on in this things in and you can follow along exactly what I’m doing with the tab. That’s measure three and measure four, measure four here on my seventh fret, and in my sixth, fifth an fourth string, I’m just going to give a triple staff there, you can either play it together, or you can do a quick roll with that, and do an open second string, you can do a fifth fret on my fifth, fourth, and third string. And we’ll look at the right hand just a second with all these measures. Okay, that’s measure four. And the last part that I’ll show in this segment is going to be measure five there and I did play my sixth, fourth, and third string with my bar here on my fourth fret, third string. So you [Demonstration] and you do a little role there, the sixth, the fourth, to open, first string [Demonstration], that’s measure five. So all five measures together, once again sounds like this [Demonstration]. You kind of take a look at the right for this part. Okay, it’s going to be the right hand for measures one, two, three, four, and measure five. Play a few times. You can watch what I’m doing and explain it on your own [Demonstration]. Okay start off there, measure one, just looks like that. It’s a triple staff on your sixth, fourth and third sting [Demonstration], slide that top four [Demonstration], when I do that roll, I’m just doing thumb, thumb, roll [Demonstration], just like that. Okay, and then the next part measure three, do that triple staff on my third, second and first string there. That’s for my thumb, index, middle. I do a double staff there, my index and middle. Use my thumb and index, that part is measure three [Demonstration]. So you really want to make sure that part is in tune as we’re recording this stuff, it gave me some trouble trying to make sure that slide exactly in tune. Just take it slow. This is what measure three looks like, and measure four, when you go to your seventh fret here, instead, you need to roll it like that or just pick it straight [Demonstration]. I’m going to do my second string with my middle finger, then my thumb, index, and middle, here in my fifth, fourth and third string and then measure five looks like that. [Demonstration] Now were doing sixth, fourth and third string, and doing the arpeggio. Sixth, fourth, and the first string open. It looks like this. [Demonstration] So once again, all five measures [Demonstration]. Okay, let’s move on to the next part.