Chords for How to Play "Catfish Blues" by Gary Clark Jr. on Guitar

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What's up guys, my name is Cal and today I'm gonna be teaching you how to play Catfish Blues by Gary Clark Jr
Which is a [B] spin-off of a song by Jimi Hendrix
[G] So the song basically starts off
I'll go ahead and throw a picture of my amp settings real quick so you guys can see what we're working with
It's basically just a lot of distortion
[D] And then go ahead and start on the third fret B string _ _
Okay, _ [Bb] then [A] you go to the second fret G [Bm] string
[Bb] _ And immediately do a half step bend up _
_ And _ _ _ _ _
_ [G] _ _ then you let the bend come back down and then you go to a pull-off so you get an open G
[Bb] _ _ [G] All right, just like [D] that's pretty simple
[G] _ _ There's a lot of bends pull-offs and hammer-ons
So if you guys aren't comfortable with that and
In this intro riff, then you're probably gonna want to get comfortable because [E] it won't sound quite [G] the same without it
Okay pull [E] off
And then immediately after the pull-off you go to the second [D] fret on the D
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And just like that on the next part of the riff which is _
_ _ [G] _ _ [E] _ Okay, so [G] you're ending up
[A] here and you [E] go to an open E and
Then since we left our first finger here, you just hit it
[G] _
[A] On the second fret D and then you [G] do immediately a pull-off _
[E] _ [G] So _ _ to the third fret on the E _ and _ _ _ then an open D
[E] _ Hammer-on to the second fret
And _ _ then another open E and the riff starts over.
So that whole thing really slowly sounds like this
_ _ [G] [E] And _ _ _ [G] _ _ [E] _ _ _
[D] _ _ [G] _ [E] _ _ [G] _ _ [E] _
_ _ [A] _ [E] _ _ _ [G] _ [E] _
_ _ _ _ _ _ then fully sped [D] up
[E] Okay, [G] _ [E] _ _ [A] _
[E] _ _ [Em] _ _ _ _ [E] _ _
so that is the intro riff now during [G] that especially in the live versions, which is the only ones that he has out [Em] right now
He's got a lot of little solo elix
Stuff that he does in between that riff
Because he has two guitars going both playing.
I think the same thing.
So basically all one keeps doing that
He's [A] just sort of soloing in between it
and essentially I'm just gonna be showing you [G] guys that scale the scale is using for that [E] and
Then sort of some of the basic riffs that he's doing
And you guys can kind of figure out for yourselves play around on that scale and hopefully [Em] figure out
You know some cool stuff to play.
So anyway, that scale goes like [D] this
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_ _ _ _ [E] _ Okay
It's pretty [G] simple
_ [A] [Em] All _ _ [D] _ _ [G] _
_ _ [D] _ _ [G] _ [E] _ right, and so within [G] that scale there's a lot of things we can do
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You can see that that little part of the lick is actually [G] in the scale as is most of the other stuff _
[E] So basically just playing around [D] there.
I mean some of the stuff you can [G] do
_ [Em] Sort of slide up to the fourth and third fret with your first and second finger on the B and G strings _ _
_ _ _ [Ab] Maybe even throw [Em] in the high E if you want to do _
_ _ [E] _ _ _ [G] _ _ [E]
you
[Em] Jump right back in from there
[Bm] And basically you'll notice that this note
Was not in the scale that I mentioned.
However, a lot of that stuff
Is sort of in the scale in the sense that if you don't hang on the note
_ _ If you resolve [G] _
right to this note here, which is in the scale [B] it actually sounds good
_ [D] _ You _ [Em] know stuff like that
[Bb] _ _ [E] _ _ _ [Bm] _ [A] _ _
[E] _ _ [Em] _ _ So, yes, you guys can kind of play around that scale some of the looks that he's doing
It's basically just a lot of it is just on the fourth fret
[B] [Em] slides up to the
_ Another _
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_ [Em] _ part since this is basically just an [E] E scale
Right [Em] as our root note
Another one is just the E minor pentatonic scale can work, [G] too _ _
_ _ [D] _ [G] _ [E] _ _ Right or the major _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ Which [D] is just [G] a couple frets [E] down from that
_ [D] And so yeah, you guys can sort of mess around with those the [G] pentatonic scales are to be pretty easy to use a lot of Hendrix
stuff in there
_ [Em] _ Stuff _ _ [A] _ _ [G] _ _ _ _
_ _ _ [E] _ [G] like that you guys can sort of mess around on that [B] as well
So a little bit [E] some places that you can sort of solo on
It's kind of fun to just let him play and then just do your own soloing things over it
It's kind of fun.
It's good practice.
Anyway guys, hope you guys enjoyed and I'll see you guys later
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