Chords for Guthrie Trapp & Josh Smith Guitar Clinic: Substitutions

A lot of times even in country music, _ _ I'll use _ _ some little basic substitutions, which I don't know.
I mean, I'm already over my own head, but if I'm [A] in A _ [Bm] and I'm playing over the 5 [A] chord, _ [E] _ _ which is E or E7,
_ I can play out of_
Now look, okay, _ E9, when I look at_
Here's my hillbilly theory lesson.
Like, when I'm in E9, [Bm] _ _ that part of it _ _ _ _ is a B minor in my mind, right?
So if you're talking to like a
hardcore theory person, they're going to say, well yeah, that's the 5 of this and that's the 2 of that,
and then when you go to the 4 chord, that becomes the 2 chord or the 3 chord, and by that time you're
like, man, you know, give me a beer and a damn Merle Haggard song.
But _ _ because you're trying to do a math
problem in your head, for me, and I don't want to think about going to D _ as _ _ thinking about all
these other keys and all this complex mathematics, you know, maybe one day I will.
Right now, not so
much, but I do know this.
When I go to E9, _ _ that looks like a B minor, _ _ _ _ and it is.
The only [D] thing
that's different, like B minor [Bm] 7, _ _ _ _ you've heard that change a million times, _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
[B] the B's on the bottom.
The only [D] thing changing _ _ _ _ [Bm] is I'm adding the A note, which makes B _ _ minor 7.
_ _ [Ab] _ I'm moving that down
_ one half step, [N] so that now it becomes the major third of E.
So basically what I'm saying is,
if I'm in A and I go to the 5 [A] chord, [Eb] _
[E] _ _ _ [Bm] _ _ _ [D] _ _
I [Ab] _ [D] _ _ _ [Ab] _ [Bm]
can play a lick that outlines B minor,
_ [Ab] _
[D] _ _ [Ab] _ _ [A] _ _ _ _
[E] _ _ [Bm] _ _ [A] _ _ _ _
[E] _ [D] _ _ [A] _ _ _ [Bm] _ _
[A] _ [E] _ [Ab] _ _ _ _ _ _
_ [A] _ _ _ _ _ [E] _ [Bm] _
[Ab] you know, all [E] that's basically like B minor over E9.
[Bm] _ As long as [Ab] you resolve _
[A] _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
[Ab] _ to that, you know,
as long as you put that major third in there _ pretty _ _ regularly, it's going to sound [Bm] pretty cool.
So _ with that being said, that's like 5 minor _ [Ab] over 1, which you can do.
So with that [A] little rule,
you know, even if you're in A dominant 7, you can play out of [Em] E _ minor 7, _ [A] _
as long as you resolve to
_ [Em] that major third.
So _ [G] you're [A] _ _ _ _ [D] _ [E] _
[A] _ [A] _ _ _ [G] _ _ _ _
[Gbm] _ _ _ _ [C] _ _ [A] _ _
_ _ [G] _ [A] _ _ [G] _ _ [A] _
_ resolving.
It's just all about where you resolve. _
And then, if I'm in, if I know if I'm in A dominant 7, I can also play, this is my theory,
I don't know who else, this could be wrong, but if I'm in A and I go to A7, _ _
the G note is what makes A7, A7.
So I know if I'm in A dominant 7, _ [G] I can go down a minor third
_ to G, I think that's a minor third, and play out of G major 7.
As long as I resolve to A,
it sounds cool.
And then if [Am] I'm in A minor and I go up a major third, because I think that C
is the note that makes A minor, A minor, I'm almost positive of that.
If I [Em] go up to _ _ _ _ C major 7,
I can play those same licks I played in, now hang with me, the same licks I play in C major 7 [Am] over
A minor, [G] I can play in G major [A] 7 over A dominant.
So that's how this, hey, can you play me an A
_ dominant 7?
_ [G] _ _
_ _ _ _ _ [Gbm] _ _ [G] _
[D] _ _ _ _ _ _ [A] _ _
_ [G] _ _ _ _ [B] _ [A] _ _
_ _ [G] _ _ _ _ [A] _ _
[D] _ _ _ [A] _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ [G] _ [A] _ _
_ [G] _ _ [A] _ _ _ [G] _ [Am] _
[D] _ [Em] _ [Am] _ _ [Em] _ _ So that's that [D] sound.
[A] _ _ _ _ _
[G] _ [A] _ _ Okay, so [Em] then can you play an A minor 7?
_ _ [Am] _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
So that works over
those keys.
And that immediately takes you out of, _ _ _ _ [A] _
it gives you something cool to,
_ and you don't have [G] to learn anything new, it's just a, you just insert that over that,
[E] _ and if you resolve right, it works. _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ [D] _ _ _
[E] _ _ _ _ _ _ [D] _ [C] _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ [G] _
_ [A] _ _ [G] _ [A] _ _ _ _
_ _ [Bm] _ [E] _ _ _ _ _
[Am] _ [D] _ _ _ [E] _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _