Chords for Albert King Crosscut Saw Style Lesson With Steve Trovato

I'm [Bbm] Steve Gervais and here's an Albert King style rhythm guitar part.
Let's hear what it sounds like.
Two, three, [G] four. _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ [F] _ _ _ _ _
So _ _ [Bb] _ _ _ [F] _
_ [E] _ [Bb] _ [F] _ _ [G] _ [Dm] _ _
[F] _ [B] _ _ _ [C] _ _ [Gb] _ _
[Bb] _ _ _ _ _ [F] _ _ [B] _
_ [C] _ _ _ _ _ [G] _ _
_ _ _ this [E] is based on Albert King's classic song, Crosscut Saw, which is called a mambo
feel or a rumba feel.
I call it a mambo feel.
So it's in [G] the key of G [Bb] and it's not a swing.
It's straight eights.
So what I'm doing here [G] is being [Bbm] in the key of G, I need to play a rhythm part that fills
in _ where other parts aren't.
In other words, I need to find a part that's in the pocket.
_ So during the first three [C] beats, I found something that's [Bb] in there where I can play and I'm not
stepping on anything else.
It's clear and it adds and it picks up because I'm playing it so in the pocket, it picks
up the momentum of the rhythm section so it makes it sound even stronger.
So [G] what I'm doing is I'm playing a little chord here, _ _ taken from the big G bar chord.
I'm just going to play the G chord _ on strings four, three, and two. _
Now I'm going to make it from there, I'm going to make it a [Fm] seventh [B] chord by [G] dropping [Gb] the
G to F on the [F] fourth string [B] _ using a bar.
_ _ Now to add the movement within the chord, I'm going to [Bm] raise the [C] B to C _ _ so it becomes
a G7 sus [F] chord _ and then I [B] resolve it.
[F] So I'm getting this sound.
_ _ [B] _ _ _ [Fm] _ _
_ _ [B] _ _ _ _ Then [Gbm] what I do when I count off the tune, I'm going to play one, two.
_ _ [F] _ _ _
[Bm] _ _ [Eb] _ [F] _ _ [B] _ So I play the sus chord three times and then I [Gb] resolve it and play the [B] G7 once.
[Fm] _ _ [B] _ _ Now, [Bb] _ I'll do the same thing over the C chord, _ [Em]
moving up to the eighth [Bb] position.
_ [E] _ [N] Then of course the G chord and finally over the D chord, I'll move up to the tenth position
and do exactly [C] the same thing.
[Gb] _ _ [Bb] _ _ [Gm] _ _ [F] _
_ _ [Bm] _ _ _ [F] _ _ [B] _
_ [N] Now, you might notice there's a couple things that I'm doing here that are variations that
I think that you might be interested in here.
The first thing is, it's hard to [F] grab _ [Bm] _ _
a rhythm part like that out of the air [Gb] without any
kind of set up for it.
So I keep my hand moving in time to the music by bouncing it on the strings a little bit.
So I'm playing like this, [Fm] three, four.
_ [Db] _ _ [F] _ _ _
_ _ _ _ [B] _ _ _ [F] _
_ [G] _ It helps me mark the time a little bit better and not get ahead or behind.
And then the other thing is, that I think might be interesting [Em] is, it [F] sounds better
to me when I do it with my fingers because what you want is being it's basically a piano
part, you want all the strings to sound at the same time without having it to sound like
they're being strung across.
If I go, _ [B] _
[G] it sounds a little more guitaristic whereas if I play with my fingers, using
my thumb, index and middle finger, I can pluck the strings _ [F] simultaneously [B] _
[F] and I get more
of a clustered piano feel.
And so, _ [B] _ [E] and in order [B] to get the strings _
_ [Gbm] to not ring through and sound muddy, [F] watch I'm
bouncing my left hand.
_ [G] _ In other words, I push the chord down, I fret the chord and between every chord [Fm] I loosen
my grip _ _ to deaden the strings. _ _ _
_ _ [B] I'm plucking with [F] my right hand.
_ [Bm] _
_ [Fm] _ _ [B] _ _ _ _ _
_ So now let's hear what the whole thing sounds like.
_ [E]
Two, three, [G] four. _ _ _ _ _
_ [F] _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ [Gm] _ _ _ _
_ _ _ So [F] _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ [C] _ _
_ _ [Bb] _ _ _ _ _ [F] _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ [G] _ [N] _ there you have it, there's a lesson in Albert King style rhythm guitar.
A short lesson but there's a lot of things you can learn by doing this.
I hope you enjoyed it