How, how’s it going? I hope you had a good week. I'm Troy Brenningmeyer with LessonsWithTroy.com. Well today’s lessons, one of my favorite ones I've ever written out. I've written out 36, what I like to consider classic licks for the resonator guitar, aka the Dough Bro. this licks go great over a G chord, some go over C chord, over D chord and of course. You might be able to put them over E minor, A minor, or you might find some other chords to put them over. But what I've done is I've written this out, 36 of them, some of them are real similar to the others. What I've done is might start off a lick, it might be a simple lick and then I kind of build on to that lick to make it more complex. So that you can start off kind of easy and then work into stringing some of these licks together to make a longer lick.
Okay, if you bought the video, I've included five mp3 practice tracks. Where it’s about a minute and a half or so of just one chord. So it’ll be just the G chord played. And you can play these licks that are over the G chord. With this practice track to practice with. And I've done the same thing for a C chord, for a D chord, for an E minor chord, and for an A minor chord. And so this video set is actually two videos, the first video set I'm going to actually show you all 36 licks. The way I do close ups of the left hand, close up of the right hand. And then the second video is we’re going to practice them. So I'm assuming you’ve learned the licks and then were just going to put on the practice track and then I’ll show you how to play them in rhythm with the band playing. We've got a lot to learn, so go ahead and print out your tab. If you got the tab, set it on a stand in front of you and let’s go and get going.
Okay, so for lick number 24, lick number 25, 26, and 27. They're all real similar, they're all base of the same kind of idea. The last lick, were working on ideas off this two strings, the first string and the second string. We’re going to continue on with that and I wanted to show you this really neat lick I hear a lot of people do. And then I'm going to show you how to move it around to make it sound just work over the major chord and also to work over a dominant 7 kind of chord.
Okay, let me show you. Here’s that over G7 chord. And this is lick number 24. Here what it sounds like. Okay, there's it at its most basic form. Okay, that’s over a G7 chord, right. I'm here in my 3rd fret. Let’s say I want to play it over a G chord, real simple. Just move it up here to your 12th fret. Right, so we’ll go through that in the other licks, how to kind of move it around.
Let me show you a close up of the left hand, I’ll show you exactly what I'm doing. Now a lot of what's happening in this lick is happening with my right hand with some pick blocking. And this is a great lick to really work on pick blocking. So let me show you first the close ups of the left hand. Show you exactly what's going on in this lick.
Okay, so actually the left hand doesn’t look like anything to dramatic happening. I'm just keeping my bar straight here. So that I can get, and all the action happening here on my first string and my second string. What I'm going to do is I'm going to pick that first string and then I’ll show you the right hand just a second. But then I'm going to mute it out. And then when I hit this, I mute it out exactly when I hit this second string. And then I'm going to slide from 3 down to 2 back to 3. All on my second string, just like that. And that’s all one hit. So I hit my first string, 3rd fret. Mute it out exactly when I hit my second string. And I'm going to slide it down and slide it back up. So it ends up being nice 16th note pattern.
So I just end it with this. Now what I do when I restart this lick, this is something I do with the left hand. Its real quick, I bring my bar, I tilt it up to mute out what was ringing the second string. So I’ll show you real slow. So first string, 3rd fret. And then I hit my 3rd fret on my second string. Soon as I do that, I mute out my first string. Bring it back up and when I start this lick again, I just slightly tilt my bar up and that mutes out the last string that were ringing out.
See how I do that. It doesn’t need to be real dramatic. All you got to do is just move it up just enough to where these fingers. Can’t stress enough, always have it here muting, muting behind your bar.
So that’s over a G7 chord there. That’s a G7 chord, once again, I said before because it’s based off this F natural note. That’s our dominant 7 minor 7 in the key of G and it’s also you're hitting this D natural note, which is the fifth of your chord. So as you can tell you can play that, it’s going to give you a nice bluesy sound.
Okay, let me show you exactly what's going on with this pick blocking with the right hand. Okay, so were in lick 24 and this same finger pattern is going to go from lick 24, lick 25, 26, and 27. Basically when I show you how to move this around to different chords. Okay, so here's what it looks like with the right hand. So real slow. I'll show you. See how my hands is always right by the strings so whenever I need to, I can mute things out. Now, I don’t know if you can see this or not, but also my pinkie. Lot of people play with their pinkie straight out likes that. I don’t know, I just never did. But my pinkie curls up and a lot of times when I need to it can mute out strings. At least my higher strings when I needed to. Okay, so that a technique you can work into as well. But real slow. Okay, see how I start off with that 3rd fret, first string. And when I get ready, super slow motion, you're going to see as soon as I hit the second string. Boom. My middle finger comes down to mute out the first.
So there's the lick. That’s over a G7 chord. Let’s go ahead and I’ll show you, I’ll zoom out here and I’ll show you how to move this around over some other chords. But that’s what you're looking at as far as the right hand and some of that pick blocking. As soon as you hit the first string and then when you're going to hit that second string with your thumb. Boom. Your fingers come down and I just do it with my middle finger. Basically my thumb and middle just hit both those strings at the same time. Just like that.
Okay, let me show you how to move this around towards some different chords.
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