The solo is found in the film South American George, occurring at 1.55-2.11 in this clip. An early Johnny Foodstamp tutorial explains why this is one of the easiest solos, it being essentially one simple phrase in two parts, repeated once. Playing the original song through a few times, you will soon have the timing and tune of the solo in your head, after which you can strum the chords and work out how they feel to you before starting to introduce split stroke and triples.
The first part equates to me as:
Dum diddly-diddly-diddly, dum diddly-diddly-diddly, dum diddly-diddly-diddly, Dum dum…
which appears to be 14 beats
Chords and their split-stroke finger lifts and taps – based on C tuning position/shapes (which will thus give different chord names in D)
F (2010) sometimes lifts to 0010, but taps elsewhere to 2013 (ring finger) Try them and see what sounds good.
C7 (0001) lifts to 0000
F7 (2313) which can lift to 2310 with the little finger
Bb (3211) sounds like it could lift to 0211 or tap to 3215; haven’t studied film properly yet
Solo:
F (12 beats) C7 (2 beats) =14 beats in all
F (3 beats) F7 (1 beat) Bb (4 beats) F (2 beats) C7 (2 beats) F (2 beats) =14 beats in all
repeat x 1
This is intended to be a resource to support and clarify the excellent video material available. Any suggestions or improvements – please comment and I’ll revise the page and credit you. Ditto if you find errors in the links.
Links revised Dec 2013
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