Rob Schumann: For this week's lick of the week, we are going to learn a jazzy lick in style of Charlie Parker, a legendary saxophonist. And this would be played over a minor two/five chord progression. You could kind of make it work over just a minor chord and that really implies like if I was playing over A minor 7, it implies this progression. Typical 2/5/1 in a minor key, B minor 7 flat 5 to E 7 altered to A minor. So, it is kind of steps through a bunch of the interesting notes on each of those chords and anyway, it starts with a sweep that would like sort of a C major 7 arpeggio.
Here I am sliding from the ninth to the tenth fret on the fourth string and implying the ninth, eighth, seventh fret on the fourth, third, second and first string respectively. So you get. Then playing a D here at the tenth fret of the first string. So you get. Moving down ten, nine, eight and then from six to seven there. So you get. Then to the eighth fret of the second string, the fifth fret of the first string and then nine to eight on the second string. So let's look at it slow.
Okay, so the next part starts with a slide from the first finger sliding up from five to six on the second string. A quick hammer-on and pull-off from six to eight and back to six on the second string, down to the fifth fret of the third string to the sixth fret of the fourth string, that's a G#, that's part of that E 7 chord, down to F at the eighth fret of the fifth string and then landing finally on G there at the fifth fret of the fourth string. It's like the seventh of the M minor chord, so you get.
So the best way to think about that where to start is that if you have got a key of A minor, if you are doing an A minor, 2/5 progression. You are just playing over A minor, try to think of the relative major arpeggio. So I want to think of A minor, C major is the relative major to A minor. That will be a C major 7 arpeggio.
So let's say, we are playing in the key of D, over D minor. The D minor progression. Well, the relative major for that is F. So we get. It would be the same idea there. So over D and so if you just can't kind of get your barrings with that relative major. If you want to think of it as three frets up, so if you are an D minor, think of F. If you are an A minor, think of C and so on. And that's this week's lick of the week.
Giles Martin: Hi this is Giles Martin everywhere it gets you, talking about Day Tripper. Paul and George are both playing a guitar. Paul was on the bass and George on the guitar whereas John storming his driving rhythm. Very classic. John Lennon, he is flicking around the chords.
Open sixth string to the third and fourth fret on the sixth string and that's with the second and third finger. That's going to be important.
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