Youtube Jesus Etc Instructions

[benjamin]

Found this guy on youtube who shows you how he plays different songs. Here's his Jesus Etc.

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qDSTa2A9OKo

 

And here's all of his songs

http://www.youtube.com/profile_videos?user=Cougarman7

Edited August 11, 2006 by benjamin_kenobi

[Josh (Stickbob)]

awesome... much more accurate than what I've been playing

great find!

[ginandcigarettes]

This guy is very talented but I think he might be off on a couple of things:

 

(1) I'm pretty sure you should capo 5th fret not 4th to get it in the key Wilco plays it.

(2) The chorus does not have an E chord (relative to the capo) but a G#aug which you can play like this (or some fraction of this), again, relative to the capo:

 

e--------

B---1----

G---1----

D---2----

A--------

E---4----

 

So the chords in the chorus go C C/B Am G#aug F C G

 

(3) It wouldn't hurt (though I haven't listened carefully enough to verify that this indeed takes place) to swap some of the Am and Em chords in the verse with Am7 and Em7 chords (it give it some character).

[TCP]

G# Augmented! I love Jeff.

[Gobias Industries]

You can leave out the bass on the G#aug. It shouldn't matter. I always considered it akin to Dm/C#.

 

He's a little off, especially with the key and the chorus.

[ginandcigarettes]

You can leave out the bass on the G#aug. It shouldn't matter. I always considered it akin to Dm/C#.

 

Right, I haven't listened closely enough to the recording to get the actual voicing used, but all of these will probably sound okay, choose what sounds best to you (I tend to like the first two):

 

e-------|-------|-------|-------|---0---|

B---1---|---1---|---1---|---1---|---1---|

G---1---|---1---|---1---|---1---|---1---|

D---2---|---2---|---2---|---2---|---2---|

A-------|-------|---3---|---3---|-------|

E---4---|-------|-------|---4---|-------|

And so on...

 

WARNING - CONFUSING PART: You could think of it as a Dm/C# (which is not relative to the capo) except that there is no D in the chord only C# F A, which spells out C#aug (or G#aug with the capo).

[jhc]

I usually play it like

 

e--------

B---1----

G---1----

D---2----

A---0----

E---4----

 

making it an Am(maj7) (or whatever the proper term is) I often dont play the low E strings too if I'm feeling lazy

 

probably 6 one way a half dozen the other - as long as that G# note gets in there, it all sort of sounds the same in a band situation.

Edited August 11, 2006 by jhc

[groselicain]

I dunno about this guy. I've never played From the Morning the way he does, so I say no dice.