Chords for Blues Master Class with Sol Philcox - sample clip 1

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_ _ _ _ [F] _ [C] _ _ _
See how that works? _ _ _ _
_ _ [Cm] _ _ _ _ We can use that sliding technique.
This is almost like a country type thing.
Let me just show you this one little trick of how to combine slides to get from one point to another.
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[C] _ _ _ _ [Eb] _ _ [Gm] _ _
[C] _ _ _ _ You're going to be hammering on from this [Gm] note.
_ _ _ _ _ Sixth fret.
We're out of our pentatonic position here, just in case you're confused.
We've actually gone down from it.
Like here we went up, here we're going down from our _ _ _ _ _ _ sixth fret.
Okay, so we've got our _ sixth fret.
We're going to hammer on on the A string to the eighth fret. _
[F] _ _ _ [B] Then we're going to slide this up.
We're not going to re-pick the note.
We're just going to slide right after the hammer on.
We're going to go from [G] eight to ten. _ _ _ _ _
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[F] _ _ [G] _ _ _ _ [Ebm] _ _
[G] _ _ _ _ Let's carry it on by playing our seventh to our root, [C] eighth fret to tenth fret, D string.
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_ [C] _ _ _ _ [Gm] _ _ _
[C] _ _ _ Then we're going to play our third [Ebm] _ on [Bb] the eighth fret on the G string.
We're not going to tweak it.
We're just going to play it and we're going to do exactly _ what we did with _ this part.
_ [G] _ _
[F] _ _ _ _ [Eb] _ Notice how it's the same notes, just a different octave.
[G] _ _ _
So we're jumping between [Cm] them by _ [C] going_
[B] That's our little bridge right there.
_ _ _ _ [G] _
_ [Ab] _ _ [Gb] _ _ _ Then we can finish it [C] off.
We can finish it off by going _ from _ _ _ _ _ _ _ our seventh to our root on the B string, getting out of
that pentatonic position the way we did the first time around.
That _ is the same _ _ as_
_ Same [Ab] note, different octave.
We're going to try this.
[Gm] _
_ _ _ _ _ [Abm] _ _ _
[B] _ That's not so much a lick.
You wouldn't want to play that in a solo because it sounds too much like an exercise.
It sounds kind of routine.
But if you break it up a little bit and kind of go back on yourself and then jump forward
in the lick, you can get this kind of thing.
[F] _ _ _ [Cm] _
_ [F] _ _ _ [Gm] _ _ _ _
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[G] _ _ _ [Cm] _ You can go back, _ completely [C] reverse it. _ _ _ _ _
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[Abm] That's how you build speed by playing blues.
It's not fast picking _ because_
[G] It sounds great when you're playing rock or metal or whatever, but you lose some of the articulation.
You lose that human element when it gets too mechanical and you're just playing _ _ every note
with the pick.
Just like I said earlier, just utilize these bends, the slides, and the hammer-ons to get
the most out of these licks and build up [E] speed as well if you want to play fast.
[Cm] _ _ _ _ _ _ _ [Gm] _ _ _ _
[C] _ _ [G] _ _ _ _ _ _
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_ _ _ [Gm] _ _ [Abm] _ _ [Gm] _
_ [F] _ _ [Cm] _ _ [N] _ _ _