Topic: Sam chatmon -Preacher and the Bear

[craigmulcahy]

This is a fun little tune and I can't get it out of my head.

I've worked it out for the most part. I'm in tune with Sam on the video. I get muddled on the turn around part at the end of the verses. Sounds like closed positions.

Can anyone enlighten me?

Thanks,

Craig.

[Pan]

Hi Craig

If this is the video you are referring, it sounds like Sam is playing something like this:

| IV7 #IV7 | I/5 VI7 | II7 V7 | I ||

It looks to me like he is playing out of G-position, but tuned down so as to sound like he is playing in the key of E-Major?

In G-position the chords would be:

| C7 C#7 | G/D E7 | A7 D7 | G ||

Sam Chatmon: The Preacher and the Bear (1978)

Hope this helps

Pan

Edited to make the corrections Johnm suggests below; #C7 instead of #Cdim7.

[Johnm]

Hi Craig,
I think Sam played it just as Pan has it, except that I think he played a straight C#7, just moving his C7 shape up one fret, at the place in the progression where the C#dim7 would normally come.
All best,
Johnm

[craigmulcahy]

Thanks guys! I love this forum! Too good.

Are they all first position? Or is the G an F moved up?

Cheers again guys.