Reply To: Screwed Chords
suuuupaadave: that seems like a more likely choice especially since JoCo seems to use that fingering shape a lot. I don't have my guitar with me but I will give a listen tonight and see what I can hear.
For an example of the "passing chords" I'm talking about, listen at about 2:05 over "now I guess I'm…" it sounds to me like he is doing more than just hammer ons but walking up a little series of chords, but I would need to slow it down. There are a couple other spots like that. A bunch of hammer-ons in the bridge aren't notated. I agree that probably none of them are very difficult, but it would be cool to be able to nail them down. I am guessing some of this stylistic stuff comes from JoCo's interest in acoustic players like James Taylor as opposed to a more blues-oriented background.
I have been going through your lesson videos one by one — they are great! I am making it my goal to record isolated guitar tracks for a dozen or so JoCo songs for anyone to use. Even songs that don't have any particularly tricky chords like "I Feel Fantastic" are forcing me to improve, making me focus on palm muting or alternate fingerings for the same old chords, or in that case jumping around the fretboard QUICKLY. I have not even started on the finger-picked songs. I know those are going to be interesting, but since I can play a little classical-style already, maybe not too intimidating once I get into them.