From the course: Banjo Lessons: 2 Hammer-Ons and Pull-Offs

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"John Hardy," part 3: Alternate chorus

"John Hardy," part 3: Alternate chorus

From the course: Banjo Lessons: 2 Hammer-Ons and Pull-Offs

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"John Hardy," part 3: Alternate chorus

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- The way you've learned John Hardy is by basically staying on G for the chorus. ♫ See John Hardy gettin' away on me ♫ ♫ See John Hardy gettin' away ♫ That's the way the Carter family did it and I like that an awful lot, because it gives you a chance to do that choke on the slide. ("John Hardy") And I like it also because I've been playing the other John Hardy for so many years that it's nice to get a different approach to it. But the way undoubtedly every other person that you'll run into in the bluegrass world will approach it is by playing a D chord on the chorus. And it will sound something like this. I'll play the whole John Hardy the way we've learned the A part and then I'll throw in an alternate B part. ("John Hardy") So with this new D chord, (banjo music) It's an extended D and it's like one... (banjo music) Two, three. (banjo music) Four, five, six. Six measures of D and then you go back to G. So let me play the B part of this chorus section, with the D chord one more time.…

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