>>New Target and Pay Per Lesson - The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down - The Band
Posted: Fri Aug 14, 2015 2:05 pm
by tgjameela
Hello Everyone!
Today's Target and Pay Per Lesson release is now live.
Robbie Robertson and Levon Helm collaborated on a classic that sounds like it could have been written just after the Civil War and passed down through generations, The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down. It was released on the eponymous 1969 album, having been written in Woodstock while The Band was living at “Big Pink.”
The progression features some compelling inversions along with nice fills between the sections. The lesson looks at how to strum through the changes, particularly incorporating the important bass line.
Re: >>New Target and Pay Per Lesson - The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down - The Band
Posted: Fri Aug 14, 2015 2:57 pm
by willem
I like that song.
W. B)
Re: >>New Target and Pay Per Lesson - The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down - The Band
Posted: Fri Aug 14, 2015 3:44 pm
by wrsomers
Great old song but the songwriter needs a history lesson . Richmond fell on April 3, 1965. By May 20 the war was over. I guess it's not a time he remembers oh so well. Anyway it is still a fun song.
Bill
Re: >>New Target and Pay Per Lesson - The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down - The Band
Posted: Fri Aug 14, 2015 4:36 pm
by Lavallee
1965?
Marc
Re: >>New Target and Pay Per Lesson - The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down - The Band
Posted: Fri Aug 14, 2015 5:38 pm
by wrsomers
Whoops 1865.
The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down - The Band
Posted: Sun Aug 16, 2015 6:58 pm
by thereshopeyet
Great tune and lesson Neil
I've removed my question as I can see now what you mean.
I was looking at the wrong bit of the lesson
In the verse play the bass line F E D skip beat 2 and play Dm on beats 3 4&
Dermot
Re: >>New Target and Pay Per Lesson - The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down - The Band
Posted: Wed Aug 19, 2015 2:16 am
by thereshopeyet
Neil
I can play the first two lines now although it still needs lots of practice !
Can you strum slowly and count out line 3 for me in the news this week.
I'm missing something I hear.
Re: >>New Target and Pay Per Lesson - The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down - The Band
Posted: Wed Sep 02, 2015 12:03 pm
by thereshopeyet
I've been trying to overcome :dry: this strum ....Bass DU DU
It doesn't sound like DU DU .... watching your wrist Neil, there seem so be a small flick action going on with the DU DU
that aids the strumming sound.
Anyway, the video's too fast make out just what you are doing.
Dermot
Re: >>New Target and Pay Per Lesson - The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down - The Band
Posted: Wed Sep 02, 2015 12:41 pm
by willem
thereshopeyet wrote:
I've been trying to overcome :dry: this strum ....Bass DU DU
It doesn't sound like DU DU .... watching your wrist Neil, there seem so be a small flick action going on with the DU DU
that aids the strumming sound.
Anyway, the video's too fast make out just what you are doing.
Dermot
Hi Dermot I think it is Bass(a few bass strings),Bass(again a few bass strings) DU DU, so D D DUDU, 1 2 3 &4&
Do you practice this on the Am chord?
Willem
Re: >>New Target and Pay Per Lesson - The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down - The Band
Posted: Wed Sep 02, 2015 2:46 pm
by thereshopeyet
Hi Willem
The strum is explained clearly at the beginning but when watching the video left hand
Neil does somthing different with his wrist by the time he gets to the lines 3 and 4, ( Part 4 - 2.57 mins in )
Pity there wasn't a slomo getting faster, so I could understand how to get it fluent.
Am/E F C Dm
Am/E F C Dm, D
