Chords for B.B. King Slow Blues 12 Bar Guitar lesson

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[Gb] Hey, what's up you [Db] guys?
Marty Schwartz here from [N] GuitarJams.com.
Happy to bring you another bluesy lesson.
This one's cool because it's kind of like a 12 bar blues, _ [Bm] but instead of the first groove,
the one chord, it's like a riff.
And it's a classic blues riff.
So it'll be fun for you to play.
It's not too hard.
And then the progression that goes with it.
So you know, [A] add a little variation to [B] some blues jams that you may [Gb] be doing.
Alright, here's a fun blues _
[Bb] _ _ [Ab] _ _ that's very popular obviously.
_ [Bm] Kind of based on the 12 bar, but instead, _ _ [Gb] _ the one chord, instead of _ [G] _ _ _ _
_ _ _ that _ _ _
_ _ _ [Gb] _ kind of normal
groove, it's _ like a riff, a lick. _
And then eventually it switches to the four chord of the blues and the five chord of the
blues, just like a standard blues.
But the one chord is a lick instead of the groove.
And we're in G.
So it's the G minor pentatonic _ is where the lick comes from.
And we're going to put our ring [G] finger _ _ _ [A] on [B] the _ fifth fret [G] of the A string.
[D] _
_ Coming right from this G minor [Ab] pentatonic right [Dm] here.
_ _ Starts right there. _ _
_ [E] And then we're going to go up to the [Bm] next note up the scale, which is the third fret
on the D.
_ [F] _ _ _ _ _ _
[C] And then we're going to go back to the original [D] note _ [A] like _ _ _ [Dm] this.
_ _ _ _ _ [N] _ Right?
And back to that one [F] again. _ _ _
[E] So it's just going back like [Dm] _ that.
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_ _ [G] _ _ And then finally on the root, a G note, _ fifth fret on that D string right there.
[Dm] Check it out. _
_ [G] _ _ [E] _ _ _ _ _
[Gb] _ _ [F] _ _ _ _ _ [B] _
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_ _ [G] _ _ _ [A] _ _ _
_ _ [Dm] _ _ _ _ [G] _ _
_ [C] _ _ _ _ [D] _ _ [F] _
_ _ [G] _ _ [C] _ _ _ _
_ [D] _ _ [F] _ _ _ [G] _ _
[C] _ _ _ _ _ _ [Dm] _ _
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[B] _ _ [G] _ _ _ _ [E] _ _
[D] _ _ _ _ [Ab] _ _ [D] _ _
[Dm] _ _ _ [G] _ _ _ [Gb] _ _
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_ _ [B] _ _ _ [Eb] Check it out. _
[F] _ _ _ [B] _ _ _ _ _
_ _ [Dm] _ _ _ _ [G] _ _
[Bb] _ _ _ _ _ _ [F] _ _
_ [G] _ _ _ _ [Bb] _ _ _
_ [F] _ _ _ [G] _ _ _ _
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_ _ _ _ [N] Okay.
So then, _ _ like in a lot of other blues, _ that four chord, which [G] is C, _ _ [Eb] I was playing it on
the A string.
It's [G] going to be easier to do it up here, but it's the exact same thing. _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ [Ab] Eighth fret, tenth fret.
[Gb] And then you're adding your pinky to the twelfth fret on the A [Cm] string.
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_ _ _ [C] _ _ So palm muting.
_ [Cm] _ _ _ _ [C] _ _
_ Back [D] to G. _ _
Instead of the riff, we're doing [G] the same thing right here, [B] which is third fret, fifth
fret, and adding that [G] seventh.
_ [Gb] Then you got the five chord, which is the [D] D. _ _ _ _
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_ Just like a normal blues.
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_ _ _ [Eb] _ _ _ [G] _ _
_ [C] _ _ [D] _ _ [B] But anyway, you hit the [D] G. _ _ _ _
Duh, [E] duh, dee, dee, dee, dee, [A] dee, dee, dee, dee, dee, dee.
So [G] watch.
G, G.
_ [N] Then you can just go from the third fret on the [F] D, _ _ [E] _ _
_ [Eb] _ _ _ [D] _ _ _ _
_ _ [G] _ _ _ [Em] _ _ _
[Eb] _ _ _ [D] _ _ _ _ _
[Db] _ [D] _ _ _ _ [B] and you can play [A] the open G along with
it if you want.
But so [Ab] you've [D] got_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ [C] _ _ _ [Cm] _ _ _
[C] _ _ _ _ _ [D] G. _
[F] Three, three, [E] three, two, two, [Eb] two, one, one, [D] one, oh, oh, oh.
[C] _ [Dm] Three, four, five on the A string.
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So you went [D] three, four, five, and then you're right there for [C] that [F] note of the lick again. _
_ [G] _ _ [Em] _ _ _ _ _
[Dm] _ _ _ _ [D] _ _ _ _
[E] _ _ _ [Dm] _ _ _ _ [G] _
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[G] _ _ _ [C] _ _ _ _ [Em] _
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[C] _ _ _ [D] _ _ [F] _ _ _
_ [A] _ _ All right, [N] that was it.
Hope you got something from it.
Remember, I've got those bonus blues lick [Bm] lessons down in that link right below this [N] box. _
Thanks for _ all the support and all that stuff.
I really appreciate it, and I hope to see you in another lesson real soon.
See you later. _ _
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