Brilliant lesson. I’ve now quit my job down at the carwash and left my mama a goodbye note.

Refreshing to know somebody is paying close attention to what the supergrandmaster Jerry Reed did. Bravo, from the US.

I watched this lesson a couple of years ago and you might as well have been talking Japanese. I’ve just stumbled across it again and amazingly got it down in 5 minutes. Muddling away doing my own thing at my own speed to reach a certain level of competence has definitely helped me move on to a more advanced standard.

This is a great lesson. When i was a kid, guy at a guitar shop tought basic travis picking like this.. muted pucking hand only.

Most underrated guitarist of our time. He invented a lot of what they are playing today. For all you guitarist that are in a rut, pick up a Jerry Reed song book and see you next year. Lol

Sweet lesson. First time I came across Jerry Reed's music was listening to Amos Moses on the K-Rose radio station in GTA San Andreas.

Fantastic teaching technique, never questioned a single thing you explained!

Not many people changed music with their talent but Jerry’s one of them. Also the humour……anyone that can write “She got the goldmine, I got the shaft” is automatically genius.

Thank you so much. This is really, really helpful. Funky country guitar. I just found Jerry and I've been watching all the stuff I can find. NOW I see what 'the claw' is about. I tend to do it naturally. Now I'm on to it!!

Been playing for years. First video that allows me to actually grab this song. Thanks

Just watched this with my wife, Claire Lynch, who has many versions of Wabash Cannonball on KZfaq with numerous pickers, including Jim Hurst (himself a big Jerry fan). Claire was delighted and impressed. As am I. Thank you !

Thanks so much for this detailed lesson...

Amazing video. That’s exactly what I was looking for. Thank you 🙏

Very well done my friend . I am going to get to a new level because of you .

Great lesson. Always wondered why it didn't sound right when I tried playing the claw riff. Now I know.

Thank you, been flat picking for 45 years and started finger style last year, this is a great lesson. One of the few times I've ever been so frustrated to the point of putting my guitar down was learning this song. 😂 finally getting some speed on this after few days with the metronome.

Exrcellent instruction, Levi. Thanks man! 'Jerry Reed info ' sounds like a goer. I now know what I'm doing this evening. 😊

brilliant lesson really clear instruction and breakdown

3 3 2! perfect sense! nailed it Bro! Bloody Brilliant theory lesson Levi, Thankyou! it truly helped a lot, just subed, Gday from Australia

Yes, absolutely perfect lesson Big fan. Thank you!

WOW! Thank you. I never realized this. Cool.

That “weird Bb chord” - That’s known among classical and flamenco players as the flamenco Bb chord which has a fattened 6th.... it’s quite clear that some of these patterns are originally from Malagueña - tex mex - Hispanic influences- you can here lots of flamenco style imported ( of course) into Mexican styles

Excellent tutorial. Thank you very much.

Yes great lesson. Such a unique style Very cool indeed

Jerry's take on it all is just fabulous of course, & thanks to Clay for puttin' it up. Jerry must have picked it up from Mexican bands, where these Spanish rhythms are common and inherited. This takes me back- 50 yrs ago 1970's & for a few years. I was a guitarist on Cruise ships in bands. A nightmare situ cropped up on one cruise, "Dorita Y Pepe" were a fabulous Latin American dance couple 'Cabaret Act'. At first rehearsal, quite a few of their Show dances had this 123,123, 12 patterns ( with hand clapping & castanets-You probably recognize that now) but the tunes also included bars of 6/8 - 3/4 { 12, 123,123,--12,123,123,} -4/4 mixed in the same tune. The sheet music they handed us had been around for years, ripped & taped up, ink smudged & badly repaired, Up tempo as well, 30 mins in, I was a nervous wreck. 5hrs later it was the evening 'Live Show' by some miracle we got tho' it. I laughed about it later of course, & it just occurred to me to share it, someone might recognize a similar situation and smile ! & laugh.

Great Video! Thank you for posting!

Jerry! Amos Moses!! He was great man, Thanks for the video bro........

Great lesson! Thank you!

Wonderful lesson. Some people are natural teachers. Thanks.

Great lesson.

It doesn’t get more Jerry than that. Love it

You are definitely right about one thing. Jerry Reed definitely did have CHARISMER LOL

Hello Levi. I first came across 'The Claw' many years ago, and the version I heard was played by Jerry Donahue. I thought it was fantastic, but only learned a long time afterwards, that it was written by Jerry Reed. I couldn't come close to Donahue's technique, but thought I should be able to grab the 'simple' sounding intro section. I couldn't! I've been playing guitar a long time, but always struggled to play the darned thing correctly. . . until now. Thanks a million.

I have learned every song from his book..Heavy Neckin.. I still love to play them all.

When I was a kid, I sat in front of our record player with my guitar..playing Jerry's songs over and over.. trying to figure out how he did what he did. I love 💕💕 him and miss him terribly.

Hey man thank you. You just helped me fill the holes in my playing and writing. Again thank you and keep it up.

Good luck with Jerry Reed , I'm still trying to learn his stuff for years

Thanks for making it way more complicated than it needs to be

Thanks Levi!

Excellent! Thank you!!!

great job!

Thank you for this

Where is the super like button ? Thanks for this great lesson man !!!

Great video thank you

Amazing

3+3+2=8 amazing.

Nailed !!!!!!! !!!!!!!!

Levi Clay is a national treasure goddam Everyone protect this man at all cost!

Best tutorial EVER (better than Jerry's) on this great sounding but challenging technique. I'm devoting the next two weeks (months?) to getting this down. Hope I'm not too old (76) for new neural pathways in my brain. Many thanks, even if I don't get there.

Wabash Cannonball I was jamming along with on the record and is in the key of F so capo'd it top of the neck Can you list the songs you advise listening to once again please Great lesson cheers fella

Thanks!!!!

Nice video. That pattern has some roots in common banjo right hand technique.

@11:59, the weird Bb, I always call it a Gm. Thanks for the lesson

This is great! Tho its freaking hard. :P Thanks for a great lesson Levi!

Great tuition on a difficult to explain technique. if I may ask could you do a lesson on ‘too much monkey bussiness’ I just find the boogie woogieand claw hammer sort of a mystery

It has a flamenco-type sound to it. It doesn't appear that you're fingerpicking that fast, but it rolls along at a decent clip!

11:49 very strange? It's just II half diminished chord with 5th in the root; Em7b5/Bb

that was greatttttt!!! can you do" I saw the light" ?

Just bought your book :)

love it thanks for the breakdown yee haw from florida lol

Great vid.... How about some more. : ).

Jerry would say, "Figure out your own way to play it - stop listening to this guy. Then, once you've got it, forget it and find your own style, son!"

Jerry Reed is probably ok with this but Sia is filing a DMCA for 5:18

Loved this video. Big fan of Jerry Reed and his unique guitar playing style. Did he not use quite a few rather unique tunings as well?

Hey Levi, thanks for the video, it's very good. For real. And no, I don't pretend to be an expert on everything, and PS - nobody accused you of saying anything. Shouldn't be so testy in a public forum.

Well explained, consice. However can I ask you how much alcohol you consumed before writing out those Stave lines???🤔🤨🙄

Hi Levy! (Female guitarist here.) Grew up listening to Chet and Jerry Reed albums, respectively. I started playing at age 7 in '76... could not figure out how one person played like that. My dad was a HUGE Chet and Jerry Reed fan. I wanted to say that Buster B. Jone's protegé Brooks Robertson has a KZfaq channel and teaches Travis and Chick*Boom, plus all the variations Buster came up with. I so enjoy your playing and teaching. You and Brooks are two players who are equally talented at teaching as you are at playing. Oh--I love your Godin! Brooks plays that model. Do you ever use the midi? If so, in what context? Thank you again for your video. I love this lesson. I know my childhood guitar teacher taught me that first pattern you taught, but I was 11 and didn't have the patience. Or...I should say, I wanted to play Van Halen and Zep at that point. So glad you've broken things down in such an easy way. Cheers!

Excellent lesson. I wonder where I can finf, or can you show us the technique from of Jerry Reed's 1969 Alabama Wild Man. I have been waiting for someone to show this lesson for a couple of years now.

I fucking love you Levi

I can here some Spanish guitar finger patterns. They must be Jerry's influence.

crosspicking. down, down, up or mandolin players usually do down, up, up. George Shuffler is usually credited with it.

What is the model of your Godin?

Nice breakdown, Levi. John Knowles

I've left Kingston with my Guitar under my coat, 😋

Sounds like a Zep song!

Great lesson, really! Nevertheless, this seems to me quite the same as the pattern created by Earl Scruggs on his "Earl's Breakdown" and many others, quite some years earlier. Of course the concept is quite expanded, compared to the banjo roll, still... Am I wrong?

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can you make video about jerry reed s foggy bottom?

Yes, the American system for note subdivision naming is better, but we more than make up for it with our adamant refusal to use the nice, sensible metric system like everyone else on Earth.

Is this a Calypso style?

son!

I like how everyone assumes their audience is sighted. I can count the beats but don’t know what your “looking” at.

This a like a forward roll on a banjo. As a banjo player, I never liked the forward roll. Ralph Stanley would play the 1,2,3 of the roll continuously never hitting the 1,2 until it came back in time. It always drove me nuts.

like 420 tnx a lot bruh

Which Godin is that exactly?

I could play like that had the alligator not bit me and I lost my arm clean on down to the elbow! Lol

Ratiug

The theory makes it so much easier just trying to memorize a random string of notes makes me sleepy.

My problem is, how do you get the patience to sit down and make your fingers actually learn this??... if I could figure out the patience thing I'd be the greatest guirtist who ever lived!...unfortunately, and pardon the pun, I'm high strung...

"Pattern," not "pa'en."

Simple Malagueña pattern. He didn't invent it and he'd be the first to say that.

Sounds like a horse galloping

Ain't no place for a guitar man 😅

Anybody else tired of people using KZfaq to solicit donations on Patreon? It's an instant unsubscribe for me.

Americans better! You better watch it crotchet or else you'll be a double semibreve you little quaver of a minimum

First three mins I was bored......get to the point pls

What he was doing was playing guitar in a similar fashion to a Scruggs style banjo player. To answer why, Scruggs played a three fingered style of banjo. In other words, two sets of three then one set of two = 8. Interestingly enough, you mention “rolling through the chords”. Scruggs banjo refers to rolls in playing.