Chords for Confidence Man Guitar Lesson Jeff Healey By Jamie Humphries Licklibrary
Tempo:
103.15 bpm
Chords used:
G#
E
B
C#m
F#
Tuning:Standard Tuning (EADGBE)Capo:+0fret
Jam Along & Learn...
I'm Jamie Humphries and I'd like to welcome you to another Jeff Healey special tribute lesson here on Lick Library.
at the classic Confidence Man track from the album See the Light.
Before I delve too much into this track, I should point out to any viewers out there who haven't seen my previous or my other studies on Jeff Healey,
While My Guitar Gently Weeps, I happen to mention about the way that Jeff played the guitar.
who've never come across Jeff and his music before,
a blind guitar player but certainly didn't let his lack of vision sort of hinder his playing and performing abilities.
on his lap and use his fingers this way [B] to perform, which [G#] enabled him to do massive string bends,
bends than you or I could perform that easily, the standard way of playing.
at the classic Confidence Man track from the album See the Light.
Before I delve too much into this track, I should point out to any viewers out there who haven't seen my previous or my other studies on Jeff Healey,
While My Guitar Gently Weeps, I happen to mention about the way that Jeff played the guitar.
who've never come across Jeff and his music before,
a blind guitar player but certainly didn't let his lack of vision sort of hinder his playing and performing abilities.
on his lap and use his fingers this way [B] to perform, which [G#] enabled him to do massive string bends,
bends than you or I could perform that easily, the standard way of playing.
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G#
E
B
C#m
F#
G#
E
B
I'm Jamie Humphries and I'd like to welcome you to another Jeff Healey special tribute lesson here on Lick Library.
In this lesson we're going to be taking a look at the classic Confidence Man track from the album See the Light.
_ Before I delve too much into this track, I should point out to any viewers out there who haven't seen my previous or my other studies on Jeff Healey,
namely While My Guitar Gently Weeps, I happen to mention about the way that Jeff played the guitar.
Obviously, or not obviously, maybe to some of you who've never come across Jeff and his music before,
he was a blind guitar player but certainly didn't let his lack of vision sort of hinder his _ playing and performing abilities.
Jeff would play with the guitar _ [E] flat on his lap and use his fingers this way [B] to perform, which [G#] enabled him to do massive string bends,
probably much larger bends than you or I could perform that easily, the standard way of playing.
He'd also use his thumb as well quite a lot when fretting chords.
If you get an opportunity, I'm sure if you hunt the [G#m] internet you can be able to find videos of him playing.
I know that I've been looking at some videos since I was approached about doing these tributes to Jeff.
Jeff sadly passed away _ very, very recently around the beginning of March due to retinal cancer, which was the reason why he was blind.
He's been blind ever since a very young age.
_ A massive, massive loss to the guitar community, a really unique and wonderful guitar player.
Anyway, without further ado, let's play Tribute to the Great Man and we're going to play through one of his most classic tracks.
_ As with While My Guitar Gently Weeps, I'm putting more emphasis on the lead breaks throughout the track.
This track is predominantly a 12-bar blues in the key of C-sharp minor.
[C#m] So we're C-sharp [F#] to _ an F _ _ _
[C#m]-sharp dominant and back _ again.
Then [E] we have a [G#] G-sharp 7, _ [E] sharp 9, Jimi Hendrix chord, and then back to our C-sharp minor.
I'm just going to play through a little bit of the verse progression for you, just so you get an idea of how the riff actually goes.
Just in case you're going to play this on your own, you're going to play it in a band, or you just want to jam along with the original.
At least you can play the chords and you can jump on your fuzz pedal and play some lead breaks as well.
So here's the chords for the verse anyway.
One, two, three, four.
_ [C#m] _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ [F#] _ _ [B] _ [F#] _ _ _
[B] _ _ [C#m] _ _ _ _ _ _
_ [G#] _ _ _ [B] _ [F#] _ _ [E] _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ [C#m] _
_ That's the basic [G] idea of the chord [E] progression.
We're playing C-sharp minor here at the 9th fret.
[G#m] And then there's a little pentatonic lick phrase around _ the chord, _ commonly referred to as a riff.
So I should have just said we play a riff.
We slide into the 11th fret of the A string.
_ [G#] _
And [B] then 9th fret of the D, [G#] back to 11 on the A.
[B] And then 9 to 11 on the D.
[C#m] So then _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ we play an F-sharp [G#] 5 chord down at the 2nd fret _ of the E, 4th fret A, [F#] 4th fret D.
_ [E] _ [F#] _ So that's down to an E5.
_ _ _ _ _ _ [E] _
And then [C] a little [G#] climb-up line there.
[E] Sorry, 4 on the E.
2, 3, and then_
[C#m] _ _ _ _ _ And then [G#] we have this G-sharp 7-sharp 9, _ _ _ _ which [G#m] is 11 on [G] the A, 10 on the D, [B] 11 on the G, [G#] 12 on the B.
_ _ _ _ [B] B5 chord, play that at the 7th fret, _ bottom E, 9th fret A and D, or you can play it at the [F#] 2nd fret.
[G#] I probably actually prefer the sound of it at the [B] 2nd fret, I think.
[F#] _ _ _
[E] _ _ _ [C#m] _ _ _ _ _
And that's the main verse riff.
OK, I'm going to kick things into overdrive mode now and play through the opening lead break.
Basically there's_ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
In this lesson we're going to be taking a look at the classic Confidence Man track from the album See the Light.
_ Before I delve too much into this track, I should point out to any viewers out there who haven't seen my previous or my other studies on Jeff Healey,
namely While My Guitar Gently Weeps, I happen to mention about the way that Jeff played the guitar.
Obviously, or not obviously, maybe to some of you who've never come across Jeff and his music before,
he was a blind guitar player but certainly didn't let his lack of vision sort of hinder his _ playing and performing abilities.
Jeff would play with the guitar _ [E] flat on his lap and use his fingers this way [B] to perform, which [G#] enabled him to do massive string bends,
probably much larger bends than you or I could perform that easily, the standard way of playing.
He'd also use his thumb as well quite a lot when fretting chords.
If you get an opportunity, I'm sure if you hunt the [G#m] internet you can be able to find videos of him playing.
I know that I've been looking at some videos since I was approached about doing these tributes to Jeff.
Jeff sadly passed away _ very, very recently around the beginning of March due to retinal cancer, which was the reason why he was blind.
He's been blind ever since a very young age.
_ A massive, massive loss to the guitar community, a really unique and wonderful guitar player.
Anyway, without further ado, let's play Tribute to the Great Man and we're going to play through one of his most classic tracks.
_ As with While My Guitar Gently Weeps, I'm putting more emphasis on the lead breaks throughout the track.
This track is predominantly a 12-bar blues in the key of C-sharp minor.
[C#m] So we're C-sharp [F#] to _ an F _ _ _
[C#m]-sharp dominant and back _ again.
Then [E] we have a [G#] G-sharp 7, _ [E] sharp 9, Jimi Hendrix chord, and then back to our C-sharp minor.
I'm just going to play through a little bit of the verse progression for you, just so you get an idea of how the riff actually goes.
Just in case you're going to play this on your own, you're going to play it in a band, or you just want to jam along with the original.
At least you can play the chords and you can jump on your fuzz pedal and play some lead breaks as well.
So here's the chords for the verse anyway.
One, two, three, four.
_ [C#m] _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ [F#] _ _ [B] _ [F#] _ _ _
[B] _ _ [C#m] _ _ _ _ _ _
_ [G#] _ _ _ [B] _ [F#] _ _ [E] _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ [C#m] _
_ That's the basic [G] idea of the chord [E] progression.
We're playing C-sharp minor here at the 9th fret.
[G#m] And then there's a little pentatonic lick phrase around _ the chord, _ commonly referred to as a riff.
So I should have just said we play a riff.
We slide into the 11th fret of the A string.
_ [G#] _
And [B] then 9th fret of the D, [G#] back to 11 on the A.
[B] And then 9 to 11 on the D.
[C#m] So then _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ we play an F-sharp [G#] 5 chord down at the 2nd fret _ of the E, 4th fret A, [F#] 4th fret D.
_ [E] _ [F#] _ So that's down to an E5.
_ _ _ _ _ _ [E] _
And then [C] a little [G#] climb-up line there.
[E] Sorry, 4 on the E.
2, 3, and then_
[C#m] _ _ _ _ _ And then [G#] we have this G-sharp 7-sharp 9, _ _ _ _ which [G#m] is 11 on [G] the A, 10 on the D, [B] 11 on the G, [G#] 12 on the B.
_ _ _ _ [B] B5 chord, play that at the 7th fret, _ bottom E, 9th fret A and D, or you can play it at the [F#] 2nd fret.
[G#] I probably actually prefer the sound of it at the [B] 2nd fret, I think.
[F#] _ _ _
[E] _ _ _ [C#m] _ _ _ _ _
And that's the main verse riff.
OK, I'm going to kick things into overdrive mode now and play through the opening lead break.
Basically there's_ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _