Chords for Free Country Guitar - Albert Lee style Double Stops

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_ _ Okay, so what we want to do on these double stops is we actually have two closed positions
that we can move all up and down the neck and actually use in various keys.
In this sense, with these licks that we're playing today, we are using some open strings,
but the positions themselves, you can play them differently, and so they're good to know.
If we think in terms of a bar chord, like this C, _ we're playing a C here, we're actually
playing a [Ebm] C in our _ _ _ _ [N] example, but we've got this back side of this triad, and that's really
where we're anchoring our index [C] finger, and we're grabbing [F] the dominant 7, the flat 7
up here at the 8th fret on the D string.
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It's [E] actually that B [Ab] flat note.
_ [C] So, you've got that _ _ _ [E] sort [Gb] of 7th triad [Em] in this kind of [E] position, _ [C] and here again, you can
move it anywhere up and down the neck, as long as your root note is on the 3rd string, _ _ _
you can use this kind of [G] position.
In other words, if I have [Gb] a D here, [D] and I can _ _ _ _ _ _
_ [G] actually play that D7, flat 7, [E] there,
I mean, you can play it anywhere.
So, it's good to know you do it up here in A, you do it a lot in A, in country, so you're
probably familiar with that [B] shape if you've seen it before.
[Gb] Another _ [Em] one that you can use is the [Ebm] _ _ second type of position that we're using over the
F and the G.
If you look at what's going on, _ [A] really, technically, we've got a diminished [Eb] triad going on here.
If we [A] were in the key of A, that'd be our [E] major triad, [A] _ and then that'd be our diminished [Em] triad.
But, with respect to F, which our [F] root note would be right here, _ we're kind of [A] playing
this _ dominant 7 [F] shape _ [Am] with respect to that F.
Just take your D chord, you're familiar with the dominant 7 D chord, and really we're just
moving that [B] shape up and down the [A] neck.
And when we get to the F, _ even though we're never really playing our root note, it's right
here where we're playing this kind of diminished _ _ _
[Ab] triad, and we're kind of getting a double
[A] stop out of that. _ _
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That [Bb] works over _ [F] your F. _ _
_ _ [Gb] So those shapes, even though I'm playing that a little bit differently from what we were
doing with our [Fm] example, [Ab] and that's the point of learning these shapes, is you can do all
kinds of stuff with them.
If we go back to the C, you could [C] actually do some pull-off here, _ _ _ _ [D] instead _ [E] _ of_ _ _
_ [Dm] You [Gb] can use the _ [E] _ _
_ _ [C] familiar_
_ _ And or_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
So the shapes are good to know, you can use them like here again.
_ This example we're looking at is in the key of C, and Bullish Boogie was recorded by Albert
Lean, kind of a country fusion, and I think he uses those kind of double stops in that
one, _ [G] in that song, kind of similar to what we're looking at in this example.
_ And then Fun Ranch Boogie, he uses the exact same sort of_
Well, not the exact same, but he uses the same shapes, same double stops, they're structured
the same, except he's doing them in A, E, and I think he does it in [N] B, and then he does
what would be his B, and this would be an F sharp.
So see, these closed positions, you can move all of them down the next, it's good to remember
those with your left hand.
So let's go on to the right hand, I'll show you how _ to_
_ _ _ When you're playing these double stops, they're very tricky, and even if you look at Albert
Lean's live recordings, you can see him botch a few every now and then.
So I mean, they're even difficult for the_
That's how difficult they are, I guess, [F] for the guy who even came up with them, they're
still hard for him to play.
_ And there's a lot of [E] different ways you might play [Ebm] this, my_
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_ _ What I would do _ is_
My recommendation is, you always lead off with that, your _ [C] fourth string with your [Bb] pick, _ _
okay?
_ You're going to come up with your [C] middle and your ring finger, _ _ [Am] [C] and _ _ _ _ _ then you're going to
come down [G] and hit [Dm] that open [C] G.
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It's very [D] tricky because [Gb] you're going to come up [Am] with an [Bb] upstroke.
[C] _ _ _
[Am] So [Eb] [C] you're_
_ _ And then you're coming right back with an [Bb] upstroke, hitting [Eb] that fourth string again,
[F] by hitting that flat seven.
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