Chords for Dickey Betts Style Whipping Post Lick

[Bm] _ [C] _ _ [Bm] _ [Am] _ _ [E] _ _
[C] _ [Bm] _ _ [Am] _ [Bm] _ _ [C] _ _
_ [Bm] _ _ [Am] _ _ [E] _ [Am] _ _
_ _ _ [E] _ [Am] _ _ [Bm] _ [F#] _
_ [Bm] _ _ [C] _ [G] _ _ [Am] _ _
[B] _ [Am] _ _ [D] _ [Am] _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ [Bm] _
[Am] _ _ _ _ _ _ _
Hey, this is John with LearningGuitarNow.com and this is podcast number 43.
And in this podcast I'm going to show you a lick in the style of Dickie Betts played
over a whipping post style track.
So to get started, this is in the key of A minor and we're using mainly the minor pentatonic
scale, a little bit of the blues scale and the Dorian scale.
So the lick, when it starts out as, _ on the root note, 10th fret of the B string, _ _ pretty
simple little lick here, straight from A minor pentatonic, 8-10.
[G] _ _ And one thing to take note of is a whipping post is in a 12-8 time signature, so you're
going to [N] count it 1-2-3-4-5-6-7-8-9-10-11-12.
_ So these are three pickup notes that go to the first _ _ _ bar of that.
She would count it 1-2-3-4-5-6 [F]-7-8-9-10-11-12.
That's when you hit the first three notes.
Then it comes in right on the beat of the bends, _ which is going to bend the 10th fret
of the high E [Em] string. _ _ _
Now apply heavy bra-brato on the 10th fret of the high E [A#] string. _
_ _ _ _ [A] Now after you hit that, you're going to hit 10 again on the B string, _ _ [Fm] 8-10, _ _ _ and bend it
up, but not quite the two fret bends.
Dickey Betts kind of bends these up to a little bit [D#] around the 11th fret, so you get this.
_ [E] _ _
_ _ _ [F] I like to do an upstroke with a pick to get this type of sound, so you have this sound going on. _
The first one I like to do an upstroke.
_ [E] _ _ [D#] _
If you want to keep repeating them, you want to take this lick and add your own stuff to
it, you can keep repeating it with [Em] upstrokes to get that type of sound.
I hear Dickey [Fm] doing a lot.
[N] _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ Now after you do those bends like that, what you want to do is hit the 10th fret of the B string.
Now to get to that note is a little tricky, so you're going to bend the 10th fret. _
_ [E] _ You've got it bent up. _
The easiest way I've found to get to that 10th fret without pulling down and _ pulling
off and you get the 8th fret sounding a little bit and things get kind of messed up is do
a little upstroke rake with the pick. _ _ _
_ [A] _ You can [E] go right to the note. _ _
_ [A] _ If you [E] don't do it, _ _ _
[A] _ it sounds a little awkward I think and it's harder to get the sound of
a directly from a [E] bend, _ _ _ that sound, [A] directly to this sound.
_ [G] _ _
[D] _ _ _ Bend, you mute the third, well to perform this little rake you're going to mute the
high E string with your third [E] finger, _ _ [D#] take pressure off, mute, [A] _ _ [Dm] hit the B string on your
third finger, you don't have to be able to directly on the tips, with an upstroke with a pick. _ _ _
_ [F] That's the first part of it.
Next part, 7th note of the B string directly taken from the Dorian scale and you're doing
this little rhythm.
We're just going to hit it 5 [F#] times. _ _ _
8th fret, [G] flat 7th note on the B string _ _ _ _
[Em] [Dm] and 10th fret.
[A] _ _ _ _ _
_ [F#] _ _ _ _ [Gm] _ _ _
_ [A] _ _ _ _ [A#] _ _
Now the next thing we do is this little Dickie Betts run that he does quite often in this
type of stuff.
Slide into the 9th fret of the G string, [Em] _ _
2nd fret, I mean 2nd finger, 8th fret of the B
string, back to 9, [A] 10, _ back to [E] 9.
That's just the basic lick, you want to get down, upstroke with a pick.
[Am] _ _ [Em] _ _ [A] _ _
Now hammer on 8, [G] 10, 8, _ [E] now back to 9, 10, _ [A] _ _ [Em] 8, 10, 8, then 9, 8.
[G] _ _ Slide backwards from 7 to [D] 5, _ [C] _ _ 7, [A] 5.
[G] _
That's the first part of it.
Do the same thing again for the next [Em] part. _
_ [A] _ _ [Em] _ _ [A] _ _ [Em] _
So this time just hit it with a 9, 8, 10.
[Am] _ _
[G] Slowly that section is [Em] this. _ _ _
[A] _ _ [Em] _ _ _ [F#m] _ _ [Em] _
_ _ [Gm] _ _ _ [A] _ [G] _ _
[Em] _ _ _ [A] _ [Em] _ _ _ [A] _
_ [Em] _ _ _ _ [C] _ You'll hear Dickie Betts doing that all the time, these kind of just repeated kind of
phrases with the hammer ons and pull off between two strings. _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ I just added one note there, the high E string. _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ So what I did, _ [A] _ _ _
went [C] to the high E string on the 8th fret, [F] 10, 8, [Em] pull off.
_ [C] _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ [Em] Anyway it's just a common Dickie Betts type move, that little maneuver, real slowly.
[A] _ _ _ [Am] _ _
_ [Em] _ _ But that part's not what I played over the backing track.
I just add that in there real quick.
And you should be able to just try to improvise between these maneuvers, you know, adding
the [Gm] bends, _ _
[A] _ the [F#] upstroke rake, pieces from the Dorian scale.
_ [G] _ _ [Dm] _ _ _ _
_ _ [C] _ _ _ _ _ [G] _
_ _ Anyway that's just a little bit about what Dickie Betts does and when someone, and the
style of Whippenpost, over a Whippenpost style track.
If you'd like to learn more about playing Dickie Betts [F] style lead guitar over a Liz
Reid or Whippenpost, I've created a DVD that shows you exactly how to do this.
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