Lick Of The Week 6

Rob Schumann: This week's 'lick of the week' is a pretty standard sounding Blues lick, but it has got some interesting stuff to different accents and it mixes the minor and the major pentatonic in a great way. And I am demonstrating it here over an E7 chord, so we can kind of get the sound of that E7 chord in you are head and you get--

Basically it is going to start if you are kind of thinking in the E position, you might think of E Blues up here in the twelfth position in the basic Blues box, what we need to do to get out bearings for this lick, is to find the route on the third string, here is E at the ninth fret of the third string. So again I am demonstrating this on E at first here, there is E.

So the - the idea here, I am in a bend, a pretty typical thing you might see on Blues solo, I am bending in this case the tenth fret on the second string, up a whole step, pulling off to the eight fret of the second string, then playing the tenth fret of the second again, then the ninth fret of the third string. So we get --

Now at this point, this is where it starts, that's where that basically E made a pentatonic sounding part of it, now it's going to switch to E major pentatonic part. So this will be a slide with the third finger from eight to nine, G to G sharp on the second string, then seven to nine on the first string. So, so far we have --

At this point you got to drop down to the second finger on the eighth fret of the second string, and since this is the minor third, it's always a good idea in Blue as to kind of bend the minor third or the key up a little bit sharp, and you are going to kind if stager rhythmically down to the seventh fret and fifth fret, that the nine and the route to the key, so we have --

And then down to the third fret -- sorry it's the third string, seventh fret with the third finger and then pull off from seven to five on the fourth string, down to the seventh fret of the fifth string in our back and sort of an E minor pentatonic idea, and then you get a hammer on from five to six, G to G sharp on the fourth string. And you can grab a E at the top there on the fifth fret of the second string and kind of that - that could lead you anywhere, if you just slide that back, like a hold to stick that, or you can end up with a trill, like that. So you got, that would work too.

So let's think of that as I just did, basically combining both the E minor and E major pentatonic scales, over E7. Let's say we were to playing that over A7. So on the A7 chord, again to get your bearings, you want to find the route on the third string. In this case, A is on the fourteenth fret of the third string, so it will sound like this --, do it again --

Same idea over A, then of course we played it over the. For D7, the is on the seventh fret of the third string. So,--


And that's this week's, 'lick of the week'.

Ryan Newell: Hi everyone! My name is Ryan Newell. I play guitar in the band Sister Hazel.

This would be a G chord and you just strum down and the arpeggio back up. The last finish is --


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