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Old Joe Clark- Advanced

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Step 5 of 13 in Advanced Bluegrass Jam Standards (3)

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  1. 2 I Have Decided to Follow Jesus
  2. 3 East Tennessee Blues
  3. 4 O Holy Night
  4. 5 Old Joe Clark- Advanced — you are here
  5. 6 In the Sweet By-and-By Up next
  6. 7 Angeline the Baker Build-a-Break
  7. 8 Leaning On The Everlasting Arms

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If you have a version of Old Joe Clark already, you might wanna think about beefing it up a little bit. This version is exactly what you need to make the local jaws drop!

Key of G technique

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  1. Curtis Rhodes ·

    Is there a jam track for this at a slower tempo? 90 is still a bit quick for me.

  2. Nate Overby ·

    Recording yourself is humbling but it's the fastest fix I've found.

  3. Buddy Vann ·

    The pinky thing goes away, I promise. Took me about three months.

  4. Tom Vasquez ·

    That's the one that made me finally understand backup. Stick with it.

  5. Ben Clark Instructor ·

    Great question. That's a slide going into the B part — I play it as a slide but a hammer-on works fine if that's cleaner for you. Do what sounds right.

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