• From: Nottingham, UK
  • Registered: 2006-08-08
  • Posts: 690

Topic: Mystery Train - Mystery Technique

OK here's Jim Fogarty showing off a Gretsch and part of what he does is that 'Mystery Train' hook, I love it...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=70_iNA9N9lg

... but what do I need to learn to play it myself? Chicken picking? A particular Travis pick? All I know is my basic 4/4 clawhammer doesn't seem right at all.

'The sound of the city seems to disappear'
  • From: Nottingham, UK
  • Registered: 2006-08-08
  • Posts: 690

Re: Mystery Train - Mystery Technique

I've almost got it now it starts with a too fingered chicken up-pick with a pumping E chord then switches to a full A7 with a two finger clawhammer pick and then back (that A7 goes xx2223 by the way). The chorus brings ina  B7 so it's a straight E blues, just need to get all those flashy ornamentations now ;-)

'The sound of the city seems to disappear'