Alright, we talked earlier about using our thumb to keep 4/4 time and we are going to do that now with a song called the “Thumb Beaten Blues”.
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In this case, make sure that when you bend this note, you bend it up a half step to get
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And if you bend it part way, it is not pleasing to the ear. So we got
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So at first, it is going to feel a little bit like a pat on your head and rubbing your stomach. It is a little awkward. But once that you get this down, the rewards are just immense. So let us take a look at that again. We got a melody on going
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Against a very simple
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Together,
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Then, that is an E chord. Now, we are go to an A chord and we know that it is an A chord because we got the A string and all of the sudden, you got harmony.
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That is the E. Down here
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Or just rest there and your thumb keeps the movement going. Now, we are going to
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Free as the melody. This time, over A
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Just get in the chord. It just sits there while your thumb keeps the beat going. Now,
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Now, your finger and your thumb, we are kind of doing the same figure
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Now,
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That is an E7 to an A7
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Back to E7.
Okay, a little alert here. We got a neat little lick coming up here. It goes
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Now when you play this, do not cheat. You cannot use your pick and you cannot use your thumb. You got to do this with your fingers. So watch my right hand, we are going
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Then we use the index finger to catch the bend
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Nice and smooth. You got your index and your middle finger working together
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Then your index finger plays the third string and look at what happens. We end up with this neat
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The notes kind of overlap into one another, listen to this again
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Put it together with the bass note, we got
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Into the A. Now, we are playing an A6 chord. So treat that this is a chord instead of going
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Because with this way, you get a nice overlap of notes like this
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Nice sustain. Back to the key
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Okay. That is a little tricky because you got some off beats happening in there. Listen to this, you got
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One, two, three, four and, two and three
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Simple now
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Then to 6, then,
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The high notes are sustained and the one of my favorite.
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