Re: Wild Bill Jones chords?
Now, I'll show my lack of music theory expertise, but isn't Wild Bill Jones in a type of pentatonic scale? As far as I can hear it, the second note of the scale (B if you're playing in the key of A) doesn't figure into the melody at all. Instead, there's a flatted third note (C instead of C#), and then the D and E notes. If the B appears, it's just as a passing tone, a quick run down from the C note, C/B/A... Instead of that run, I usually hammer on a flatted seventh on the way up to the A note, E/G/A.
In over my head here, I'm afraid. It's a great song, in any case: wild and grim and cruel. I played Roots Night at a club here in Rochester week ago Thursday, and that was the first song I played. Used my long-neck Regal banjo, played it out of an F position (G "capoed down" two frets).
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