Joy – chords?

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  • January 1, 2008 at 6:02 pm #29159
    dabba
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    Does anyone know the chords for “Joy?”

    January 2, 2008 at 9:18 am #35297
    marclaff
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    I would say A all along.
    At least what plays Lucinda.
    Joy is a one chord song : easy to play but very difficult to write.
    I think Tomorrow never knows from the Beatles got also one chord (C) and a velvet underground’s track is also one chord.

    January 2, 2008 at 11:52 pm #35298
    All I Ask
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    I believe you are correct marclaff. I think that chord is ‘E’. I chaecked chordie.com but no “JOY” chords. They have other LW stuff though…

    http://www.chordie.com/song.php/songartist/Lucinda+Williams/index.html

    January 11, 2008 at 7:39 pm #35299
    Gretschman
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    Hey there is a good youtube of Joy featuring the Love Band and Doug playing a Trussart Steel Deville. You can pick up the basic riff off of that footage.

    It is actually a classic blues riff with a C note on the A string pulled off to a basic closed A5 followed by a step down to a bent G note on the E string back to the same A. Its all feel and not that hard to execute. Doug superimposes a lot of double stop / 2 note chords over the baisc riff on the 2nd and 3rd Strings and then impropvises quite a jazzy solo. I love the Fillmore version best.

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