Wagon Wheel help?

[Kent Black]

Can someone tell me what the chords are and what kind of a pick pattern he is using on this video?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yn8saDIJczE

Thanks,
Kent

[Jim Broyles]

Open, first position chords: Verse same as chorus.
G D Em C G D C
G D Em C G D C
G D Em C G D C
G D Em C G D C

Picking pattern seems to be kind of a cross picking pattern on the strings 4-1-2-3-1-2-3-1 for each chord and repeated. To be clear, those numbers represent the strings and the order they are picked. I would play it DUUDUUDU, but do whatever works for you.

[GTG]

FYI, the original recording is the same pattern on capo 2 (guitar).

A E F#m D A E D throughout.

[MikeEdgerton]

Old Crow Medicine show does it in A, we do it in G as well. We also slow it down.

[kvk]

Open, first position chords: Verse same as chorus.
G D Em C G D C
G D Em C G D C
G D Em C G D C
G D Em C G D C

Picking pattern seems to be kind of a cross picking pattern on the strings 4-1-2-3-1-2-3-1 for each chord and repeated. To be clear, those numbers represent the strings and the order they are picked. I would play it DUUDUUDU, but do whatever works for you.

Silly question, which course is 1 and which is 4?

[Jim Broyles]

Highest to lowest. E1 A2 D3 G4.

[kvk]

Love this tune. Can't cross-pick to save my butt. Can't sing either. But just for yucks, I messed with those chords and that pattern and it sure sounds nice.

Then I moved it up to A and it sure does fit the fretboard nice on the top three strings. Just goes right down in a nice descending pattern. All triads except the F#m is 1-m3-1. I pick 3-2-1-3-2-1-2-1 DDUDDUDU as it's the only cross-pick pattern I'm even close to being able to do.

A x740
E x620
F#m x402
D x002
A x740
E x620
D x002

[reverhar]

We (The Neighbors) play it in A. I have been using a sorta Monroe downstroke style. Seems to work ok.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dAIVSCpcyRo

[Kent Black]

Thanks for all the help! A good friends son plays guitar and wants me to play with him just for fun so I am trying to learn this and it seemed easy enough for me.

Thanks again,
Kent