So, this lick of the week is useful for hard rock or may even some metal and this is one of those licks that are sort of takes up some space in your solo and so it gives a sound. There is not a lot of melodic content but it's great for giving you the sound of playing fast and also you are sort of playing with your effects a little bit, but you can hear examples of playing like this all over the place there's lot of groups that do it and so this is a very fun lick that uses kind of a minor pentatonic shapes. So, lets walk through and see kind of what it's doing and how we will come up with these notes.
I am using I want a lot of delay on here and like I mention that's just a sort of throw and effect heavy part into a lead solo and so, as far as the delay it's a very wet delay sound. If you were to play this lick without the delay I will go ahead and do that so, you can here out with sound and I have got a war on there.
So, essentially what's happening is on each of these bends I am trying to get the war to hit right as the bend happens and you can certainly do this lick without a war as well. So, a little bit more blues rock oriented in that case and more effects we put on it the more shreddy it starts sounding. As far as the war goes I am usually trying to sort of use the war to get the 'W' part of the war right it in the middle of that bend, and so as you are rocking forward on a war pedal you have got that one little threshold where you actually get that 'W' effect and it's usually sort of somewhere before or after the middle of the sweep and so you want to get from there when you are not with your war pedal were you can figure that out. And so on all these bends I am trying to find that one place on the bends so that I get that real screamy effect.
Now, as far as the scale that we are using we just add a 'D' minor pentatonic and so, we are playing over a 'D' para-chord and the chord that I had there in the background is just sort of 'D' over 'A' so it's very dark kind of sound. So, its just that finally that we have got a 'D' para-chord with an 'A' on the bottom. So, we have got this 'D' minor pentatonic in 10th position and what I am trying to do is as I bend these strings I am targeting chord tens. So, I am bending and each time I have got a slurring pattern after it and so I am just sort of snapping through that slur so that your basic rhythm.
Now, when we are bending this 13th fret up what we are doing is bending a whole step up to the rid of the chords so, if the rid of rid of our chord is 'D' we are bending the 'C' note a whole step up to 'D' and I think that we do that three times at the beginning of the lick, now when we do the same bend on 12th on the 3rd string we are bending at 'G' up to an 'A' which is the 5th of the chord so, that's how that looks. And we have got one other bend that we are doing that's the 13th fret on the 1st string and we are bending of a half step and what that's doing is sort of a blues idea. We are taking the flat 3rd which will be an 'F' in this case and bending up to a regular 3rd so, its going. So essentially you are always been doing bending to a chord time which makes the bend sound like it belongs and it just helps to kind of snap right up into the tonality of that chord.
So, we are kind of implying a 'D7' chord even though it's played over a para-chord and that's a very cool thing to do on rock leads is sort of imply 4 note chords like 7th chords or 5 note chords like 9th chords, but still just have a para-chord in your rhythm so that you are not cluttering of the mix too much but imply that harmony in your lead.
Now, as far as taking this into other keys it's just your basic minor pentatonic box that we have all been selling out of since (00:04:48). So, if we are going to put that into another key the fret that we start on is going to be basically the flat 7 of the chord but to make it easier. Here's one of my first finger is on this minor pentatonic, that's my root note that's 'D'. So, lets say we wanted to play this in 'A' I can take that first finger down to an 'A' and now through my third and second finger over to the 8th fret were that flat 7 would be and that's one of my first bend is going to be and so I just do it in that position so that it would be down to 'A' first I am going to do it in 'C' take your first finger 'C' and do the bend there so on so forth and so that gives it to you and your other keys.
Now, this position of the minor pentatonic is really best suited for this lick. Any of the other forms that you would have if you have got a root note on the 5th string or 4th string. This kind of lick isn't going to lay that well and so that's were it's, important to be really familiar with all your forms and the scale because there is certain licks that are more conducive to being played with certain forms.
So, I will go ahead and leave that delay of stills so that it doesn't interfere with our timing and that's why I play that at half speed and we are just ending with a whole a whole step bend on the 13th fret bending up to the root and so that's great lick you can really play it as long as you need to and just take up the space in your solo. So, have fun.
Start it on a 'C', 3rd fret 3rd string to 'G' 3rd fret 4th string up to the 'F' and to get down to that 'G' you actually hit a 'A' that's just here on the 5th fret.
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