This is your 'lick of the week' tutorial and without further ado, let's take a look at your lick of the week..
Well this lick certainly, meant itself to a Blues style of playing. Sort of a Blues on steroids where you can get away with it over traditional Blues feel but you had a little gain and it certainly works for rock almost a little better. This one is known as a turnaround lick and that it's very important to have a whole library of these in your arsenal. As there is a lot times of turn around in a Blues feel. And with a turnaround, we are specifically talking about the five chord going to the four chord, back to the one chord. It's where at the end of the 12 bar blues form, you are about to repeat to another chorus. So this is kind of.. traditional feel, I mean you can hear that in the backing track I was just playing too.
In this case, we are in a Blues and A, so my five chords are going to be in the E7. I am now running that with a power chord, going to a D7. That's the four chord and then to the one chord which is A. So for this particular lick, I am outlining those chords. Let's look at the techniques that I am using and then a little bit about the note choices I am using. As with any lick that you have learned, specially with these lick of the weeks which are kind of designed to be cool things you can add to your own arsenal of licks. You want to be able to change them to different keys or to different chord progression and styles that you might be using. So I am going to address a little bit of where I am getting these notes so you can apply it to different chord progressions.
I am starting off by doing a pull-off on the twelfth fret of the second string going to the ninth fret of the second string. And then I am hitting the ninth fret of the third string. So that's the basic structure of this first part. But it's using a rhythmic technique called Rhythmic Displacement and that's a really neat way to play repeated notes but still make them interesting and a little less robotic. And what's happening is I am taking straight sixteenth note which are four per B, if you are familiar with that and I am putting the accent every three sixteenth note. So you get a little bit of a displaced feel. So you are getting one, two, three, one, two, three and then every two beats, I then throw a one, two on there one, two, three, one, two, three, one, two and I do not go to the third string for that third time. So it's.
So that's the basic form for that first part and then the second part of the lick, I am just scooting that fourth finger up one fret to the thirteenth fret of the second string, pulling off to the tenth fret of the second string. And then using the second finger to hit the eleventh fret on the third string. So essentially, we have got.
So that's the first part of the lick. In our next little segment, we will look at that in a little bit more detail as far as the technique and then the next part of the lick.
That starts with a hammer-on from the seventh to the ninth fret on the third string and then the eighth fret on the second string. So I really think of that as three different little sections that make that whole Blues. Starting with the first section.
Transcription by:
Scribe4you Transcription Services