Chords for Cripple Creek Guitar Solo Lesson!

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_ _ _ _ _ Howdy, _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
welcome [D] to _ BanjoVinclart _ .com.
I'm Banjo Ben, your host [G] on the website that teaches you how [N] to play banjo, mandolin.
This week it's guitar.
We've got two hot solos for Cripple Creek and the KFG, a low one _ and a high one.
If you're watching this on YouTube or Facebook, here in a moment you can come over to the
website, _ BanjoBenClark.com.
You can join as a Go Pick member.
You'll have access to this _ 25 plus minute video lesson that we're going to do, as well
as tabs to what I just played and _ also the basic melody.
I have those tabs and three different speeds of _ MP3 rhythm tracks that you can download
and practice along with.
_ Let's jump into this one.
This is one of the funnest arrangements I think I've written.
_ _ Hey, y'all.
Let's learn a couple of solos to Cripple Creek.
You want to?
We're going to [G] learn a low solo _ _ _ and then we'll learn a high solo.
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_ _ And these are a lot of fun to play.
They're more of [N] an _ advanced _ _ _ arrangement, so I'm not going to spend a lot of time _ _ explaining
every single little note to you because I've got lots of stuff on the site that will do that.
I want to talk more about _ strategy, _ how I came up with some of these licks, _ compare
it to the very basic melody. _
And speaking of which, if you're watching this on the site and you click download tabs
over there, _ _ you can download this tab and also just a very _ straight ahead basic melody
version of this.
You can put those side by side and kind of identify where the basic melody _ happens _ in
this more advanced _ melody.
Okay?
So let's throw the tab up there.
_ Now this whole first _ line [G] is just the intro and I'm going to _ do kind of a [Gb] _ banjo type intro.
We're going to borrow some licks from the banjo on this guitar version, [G] but it sounds like this. _ _ _ _
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_ Okay?
[C] So that's something similar in cadence and notes to what a banjo might do.
So we're going to come up and hammer [Gb] on.
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_ _ _ _ _ I would just tell [Gb] you technique wise, after you hammer onto that fifth fret on the D string,
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keep that down until you need to hammer again, just so you get that resonance from that fret. _ _ _
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And then I'll release [C] right there on the third beat [D] of measure four to play that open D string.
And then we're going to do [Em] the same idea.
The last beat of measure four is that second fret. _ _
We're going to slide it up to the fifth fret, _ going into measure five. _
Leave that finger down _ _ _ _
_ _ _ [G] _ _ until after you play that open G string.
We [Em] don't want to get that. _ _ _
_ _ We don't want that. _ _ _
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So we're playing very basic melody here in measure five. _ _ _ _
_ And that's fine because we want to establish this basic melody.
Then we're going to start embellishing pretty quickly. _
When we go to measure six, [C] we go to that quick C chord.
_ And the way I'm going to make sense of that is do a lick like this.
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So you'll notice that I have these pick direction arrows beneath each one of these notes.
And that's to keep you straight there, because we've got lots of hammer-ons, lots of slides
and pull-offs _ that can get you messed up there.
So we want to keep that alternate picking pattern going with our [C] _ downstrokes on the
downbeats, upstrokes on the upbeats.
And that's what those arrows are for.
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[C] _ _ _ _ [D] _ _ Now we're going to measure seven. _
We're going to use this [Bb] B flat _ _ _ a [E] lot.
We're going to use it on our next [C] _ version, Up the Neck 2.
We're going to use this B flat, which is the flat third _ tone _ of a [G] G major [A]
scale.
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So I'm going to hammer [B] up to a major third tone a [Gm] lot, and I'm going to pull off a _ [A] lot
to [G] the [A] major second tone.
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Okay?
And that's just something that's common _ in _ bluegrass, and Cripple Creek really lends
itself to doing that.
So we're [Bb] going to do a hammer-on _
[B] _ _ up _ [D] _ _
to the D string, and then I'm going to [Bb] pull off.
_ [A] _ And I pull [Bb] off that one going down.
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_ [D] And then we're going to hammer-on first to second fret on that low E [F] string going into
measure eight, _ [Gb] _ _ [A] _ _ [Bb] _ _
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so that I land on that third fret measure eight with my ring finger.
_ Okay?
You could slide [G] that _ and land there. _ _
But measure _ seven, _ slowly, sounds [Bb] like this.
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[G] _ _ Now I'm going to keep that ring [Gm] finger down and come up and [E] grab the second fret, because
we're going to do that same slide [G] again.
But I want that low G note to ring [Em] out.
I'm going to come here and grab, and then at the last _ second, I'm going to release that
_ ring finger _ _ _ _ _ _ to slide this back up as we go into measure nine.
[G] Now measure nine is a repeat _ _ _ of _ _ measure _ _ _ _ five.
_ _ _ _ _ And then we have the same lick here in measure 10 that we saw back in [C] measure six. _ _ _
[G] _ But here's the trick, and I want you to see this.
You can really see it if you have the [Db] tab printed out.
_ We're going to start a lick here on the last beat of measure 10.
And this is just good for any song.
Here's a way to create more licks.
_ This is the exact same lick that we played in measure seven and measure eight.
I'm simply going to start at _ one beat sooner than we did before and play the same lick. _
Okay?
But _ because the notes are going to fall at different times in a measure, it's going to
have a [G] completely different _ sound.
So we're going to start with that [Bb] hammer on [B] _ on the last beat of measure [Bb]
10, _ [B] _ _ and then go
up to the D string [D] just like we did [Bb] before, pull [A] _ [G] off.
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[F] _ _ [Gb] _ _ [A] _ And so now that we _ started a beat _ sooner, _ _ we are going to have to make up a beat.
We're going to have to add a beat somewhere in this lick.
And so all that I do [Bb] is in measure _ 12, _ [B] when we have that hammer on, instead of just doing
it once [Bb] like we did in measure eight, we're going to do it twice. _
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_ [Em] Okay?
So measures nine through 12 slowly. _ _ _ _ _
You play the slide going into it.
Sounds like this. _ _ _ _ _
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Now, if that's not slow enough for you, I've got a whole other video [G] here on the site.
Don't forget where I play the whole thing through _ _ slower than that.
Now we're going into the B part, which is a lot of fun to do.
It has a lot of pull-offs, a lot of hammers. _ _ _ _ _
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