How to Play Trouble in Mind with Scott Nygaard Part 2/2
Okay and the time is a little bit different on this song than on the other songs, this is what’s called the shuffle rhythm and it uses a lot of sort of the triplet field, that feel and there are times that I’ll get away from the little alternating picking thing we’ve done because things are in groups, more in groups of three. When you’re playing a slower song like that, this is not quite as important to do strict alternating, so you can change that depending on how you want to express each phrase. I tend to do sort of a down, up, down, down, up, down and kind of keep the strong beat in there.
So you can hear those strong beats. So what I’m going to do, I’m going to go up chromatically from this C note in the first fret. Another thing that kind of distinguishes the blues and some jazz is connecting scale tones, there is our C and our D just in the regular scale and then connect them with the chromatic note that’s in between, half step in between. Now we’re going to use the flatted seventh and the flatted third. Now we’re going to slide into that major third in the flatted seventh and then the C chord. I’m going to do a quick little hammer on. Once again that flatted third the major third and the C chord.
And then on the C chord I’m going to do, just kind of using the flatted seven there on the C chord pulling off with the B flat note, the flatted note of the C chord. Pull off after the E and slide it into that D note from the C note and we’re back to our G chord.
Now the progression there unlike the standard 12 bar, it goes through a circle of fifth, so we go down to the E chord up to the A chord, D chord and back to the G to get back home in there. So we’re going to get away from the melody a little bit and go through the arpeggios of those chords, follow the way that rhythm is playing the chords, so after the C, we’ll play the E arpeggio, come up chromatically from that open D and play across the top four strings, so just the regular E chord arpeggio. We’ll come back down to that A pull off there from D to C and that’s all the triplets, and then we’re going in to our D chord, then slide in the D note and we’re doing that flat third of the major third again and then back to our G with another flat third in the major third. We’re back home with the G chord, and we’ll finish is off with a little sort of pentatonic blues thing on the turn around, the turn around goes G, C, G, D and the electrical player over that is after we’ve gone where we’re ending but we’ll do around the turnaround, pull off there from the sixth fret to the third fret, and we’re playing in triplets there and pull off again from the fifth fret to the third fret and another little flat three the major three on the D chord and we’ve got the whole solo.
So let’s switch the split screen and I’ll play the whole solo slow so you can see both hands.
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