Chords for Gibson Frank Zappa® "Roxy" SG - Enclosure Guitar Lesson by Dweezil Zappa

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Hey, what's up Neil Walter here for the guitar tricks to channel with my friend weasel Zappa rocking the SG
What's up, how you doing [Gb] doing pretty good?
Thank you very much
This is a brand new Gibson Frank Zappa model SG and it's from the Roxy era
which is the middle 70s and
_ This guitar is identical to his guitar _ as he would have played it on the stage at the Roxy and elsewhere
_ Concert and that famous album we were able to
_ _ Get the original guitar which is different now because it has different electronics and it has a different pick guard and stuff on it
But before it had that it was exactly as this guitar is so there's some pretty cool features
_ about this guitar that make it different than a just standard SG and
So one of the sounds that that it makes that's that's pretty cool is okay if we're in the rhythm
_ position with the pickups here you can hear this kind of
[A] _ _ _ _
[D] _ _ [A] _ _ That's the basic sound here's single coil
humbucking in this position
_ [A] _ _ [D] _ _ _ [A] _ _
_ [B] Sounds different than a an SG, but then this is what really is cool.
This was out of phase
Single coil _ [A] _ _ _ [D] _ _ _
_ _ _ and that also [C] kind of has this Brian May sound [F] _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ [D] _ _ and it's that really cool
_ _ A _ _
_ Honky thing that also has _
Like this octave overtone you have your regular bridge and neck pickup stuff _ _
_ _ [E] _ _ _ [D] _ _ _
[N] And we're just hearing a completely dry sound, you know
so the the guitar has a a lot of character just with these couple of switches, but the thing that
Also makes it really fun is that it's got super low action
It plays like his guitar played with really low action and the playability of it is is what's so so great
So they're making 400 of these and they're available
_ _ Worldwide starting today Wow.
Well, how can you get him? _ _
I'm pretty sure you're gonna have to look at _ _
Some online dealers you're gonna have to check with Gibson and also, you know
Guitar Center and all these kind of places that that carry Gibson brand.
This is something that _ _
Maybe is a new concept for for some of you
It's got an idea called enclosures where you can take two notes that you target that are outside of
_ The scale that you're playing and then I'll play a pattern of five notes
So two notes will be out and three notes will be in _ I imagine a question would be how do you know?
What notes to pick?
_ Well, it's that are outside of the scale, you know a half step up or half step down, you know, and [E] so
_ This is also a good way to get your fingers used to _ _ _ _ _
Just playing with that kind of idea
_ Because it can be a little bit of a tongue twister kind of feeling, you know for a finger twister
So here's here's the thing.
I'm gonna target the three notes inside that are just going to be fragments of a chord
So this would be like the top half of an a minor, right?
[C] _ And then the next one will be this part of a [D] D major
And [A] _
[Em] then a C major
[G] but I'm gonna play a couple of notes [F] outside of that to begin with so _ _
_ [Am] _ _ _ _ [F] _ [Am] _ _
[C] _ [C] Got it.
If you're in the key of [A] a _ _
_ _ _ _ _ [Bbm] _ _ _
[Abm] _ _ _ [C] _ _ _ [F] _ _
[D] _ _ [A] _ _ _ [Eb] _ _ _
_ [G] _ [Bb] But the picking is I will strike one note
[Ab] Pull off and then I'll rake across three [Am] strings _ _
[C] _ _ You're gonna have to [Am] roll your finger so that you can mute
So it doesn't sound like you're just playing a chord
_ [Bb] so
But _ _ [A] _ _ _
_ _ _ [D] _ _ _ [A] _ _
[F] _ _ [G] _ you can play it however you want to [Am] phrase it [C] _ _ _ [A] _ _
[E] _ _ _ [N] that's cool play it anywhere and it sounds cool apart _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ Almost sounds a little bit like the this kind of stuff that Randy Rhoads used to do where he would
_ [Em] _ _
_ _ _ If you get _
_ [Bb] To a place where you're you're playing something and you just want to try something that sounds a little bit
different or a little bit outside
You get used to the idea that really you're only a half step away from the right note at any time
But this idea of enclosures gives you targets, you know places where it's to land.
It's [A] safe
Yeah, so, you know these two weird notes
_ you _ _ know, but [C] then
_ But the thing about that is if you start using your [A] ear the weird notes don't seem that weird anymore.
So _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ [Em] _ _ [F] _ _ [A] _ _
[G] So you have you can when you let's say you accidentally you were playing you were playing some [C] blues
_ [D] _ _ _
[A] _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ [E] _ _ _ [Dm] _ _ [Eb] So that that note is not your first choice, [E] but _ _ _ it still works.
So does _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
So like these ideas of pulling from a _ [Am] _ _ _ [Ab] half step down
[E] _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ [Am] _ _ _ _ No, you can just kind of play around with
_ being a half step away and and a lot of times what's cool to try to is just to take a
_ Pattern you're used to and then move it a half step up but diagonally across so like say you're doing this
_ [B] _ _ [F] _
_ _ [Bb] _ _ _ [D] _ _ _
_ _ [G] _ _ _ _ [D] _ _
[B] Sounds like a Danny Elfman soundtrack.
Yeah, you can you can try all these things you can do it
_ The opposite way to you know, just up and [Eb] tritones
_ _ [B] _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ [E] _ _
[Db] _ _ _ _ This kind of thing is a cool sound _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ Taking a really simple idea like a triad and moving it a tritone away, you know, so [A] like
_ [E] _ _ _ [Bb] _ _ [A] _
_ _ _ [Eb] _ _ _ [A] _ _
_ _ _ [Eb] _ _ [A] _ [N] _
You know that could work in a you know, you're playing over any [A] kind of _
_ _ _ _ _ _ It's just a regular
_ [E] You know dominant chord, but you can get away with a lot of stuff.
Yeah, that's cool.
Thanks.
We though that was awesome
I'm gonna go try some out right now
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