Now, let us take the idea of using your thumb to keep a rhythm going. And we are going to do a sort of a funky thing on top with our fingers. And actually, this is called “Funky Butt”. So “Funky Butt” goes like this.
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Actually, the first part is pretty easy. What you are doing is once again, your thumb never stops doing 4/4 times. So you are just going
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Now, you noticed right then that I was palm muting and that gives the song kind of a little more of a credence C sinister effect. So, you might want to try that. You are good to go either way but try a little palm muting because it kind of just makes it, well, funkier. So, what you are doing here is that you got a melody on top going one, two, three
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Four, one, two, three
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Once again, if you try to play the melody by itself, do not cheat and use your thumb or your pick. You got to do it with your fingers.
Here, I am using my index and my middle finger together to grab this little slide.
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I am switching to my middle finger and then I use my index finger
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And, with the single note, it is not as important to use your middle finger here and your index finger here. But it certainly makes things go more smoothly. So, that is relatively simple. You got
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One, two, pull off
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On those, you are just squeezing like
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Now, here is the part that is a little tricky. You got this going on
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So, you got to hammer
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As soon as your finger lands on that note with your left hand, your thumb needs to hit the 6th string to keep the 4/4 beat going. Again, it is
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Once more
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In context, it goes
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Do not be afraid to what that hammer happen. Do not try to like pick the note. Just let the hammer fall.
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Okay. And then the next part, you just repeat the exact same thing. When you go to the next chord, the A7 chord, when you slide, you are going to be doing a different position. Same phrasing
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One, two, three, four. Now, watch this
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Now on that lick, what you are doing is that you are doing a slide followed by a pull up like this
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See that? We got
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And then into a regular pull off. In its entirety, that part goes
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One, two, three, four, one, two, three, four
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And now, we are getting back into the same thing that you did earlier where you are going to have to do your thumb at the same time that the hammer lands like this
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Except now, you are on A
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Back into the signature
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One, two, pull off
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Squeeze. Here we go again
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Keep that thumb steady.
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Now, we are going to do a melody with the chords changing underneath it. It is a repeated melody. It goes
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Now, I just use my pick and go
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And back to the beginning.
After you do it the second time, you are going to end up on an E7 with a #9 which we call the “Jimi Hendrix Chord” and it looks like this. It is like moving a B7 shape up to the 7th fret. Put your pinkie at the 8th fret on the 2nd string and you have a beautiful chord in the blues note.
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