Chords for Jimmy Page Guitar Lesson: I Can't Quit You Baby- Major and Minor Pentatonic Blending

_ _ _ [Em] _ _ _ [Am] _ _
_ [A] _ _ [G#] _ _ _ _ _
[Am] _ [A] _ _ _ _ _ [F#] _ _
_ [Em] _ _ [D] _ _ _ _ _
[Am] _ _ _ [A] _ _ [G] _ _ [F#m] _
_ [C] _ _ [A] _ _ _ _ _
[Em] _ _ _ _ _ _ [F#m] _ _
[Am] _ _ [D] _ _ _ _ _ _
[F#m] _ [Em] _ _ [A] _ _ [Am] _ _ [A] _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
[F#m] _ _ _ [E] _ _ _ _ _
[D] _ _ _ [Am] _ _ _ [D] _ _
_ [F#] _ _ _ _ _ [A] _ _
_ _ _ [D] _ _ [Am] _ _ [A] _
_ _ _ [A#] _ _ [A] _ _ _
_ _ _ _ [G#] _ _ Lick one, nice and slow.
_ _ _ _ _ _ [A#] _
_ _ [Am] _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ [B] _ _ _ [Am] _ _
_ _ [B] _ _ _ _ _ _
_ [C] _ _ [B] These Jimmy Page blues licks from I Can't Quit You Baby are in the key of A.
It's a
12 bar blues in the key of A.
And actually the tune is in 6-8, so we think 1-2-3-4-5-6
for one measure.
The count in for you is me saying 1 [A]-2-3-4-5-6-1-2-3-4 and then your lick starts.
That's for when
you use the jam track.
Let's go over this first lick. _
The goal of this lesson is to understand the use of major
pentatonic and minor pentatonic together.
Let's check out how Jimmy Page might think about this. _
We're coming from an A7 chord.
It's form 1, E shape, dominant 7th chord on the 5th fret
makes it an A7 chord.
_ Here we can unravel two great scale choices, the major pentatonic
and the minor pentatonic. _
The patterns that you should be familiar with for this lesson
are these.
Here's the major pentatonic.
We have the chord.
_ Major pentatonic pattern 2
unravels right from the chord.
Put the second finger on the root and here [B] it is.
_ _ _ [A] _ _ [B] _ _
_ [C#m] _ _ _ _ [A] _ _
I've [B] got
the scales accompanying the lesson for you to review in case you don't know it.
Moving
up to pattern 3, A major [C] pentatonic _ [A] _ and [B] _ _ _ [E] _ _ [F#m] _ _ _
[B] _ _ _ [C#] pattern 4.
_ [F#m] _ _
[C#] _ _ _ _ _ _ _ [F#] _
_ _ [D#] I would review those major pentatonic patterns
and note [D] where the root note is in [A] each of the patterns.
_ From this chord, we also [D#] have
minor pentatonic.
Pattern 1 sits [A] right inside of the chord.
[D] _ _ _ _ [Em] _ _ _ _
_ [Am] _ _ [C] We're going to use pattern 2
[A] _
_ _ _ _ _ [C] _ _
[D] and pattern 3.
_ [Bm] _ _ _ _ _
[Em] _ [A] _ _ _ This is a great opportunity for you to review those patterns.
Take it
to the next level and play major [F#] pentatonic going up and minor pentatonic [A] going down.
Check it out.
Major pentatonic, _ _ _ _ [Em] _ minor pentatonic going down.
_ _ _ [A] _ _ [E] Start seeing the shapes, the patterns
inside of each other.
Pattern 3, major [C] pentatonic, [C#] _ _ [A#] _ _ [B] _ _
pattern 2, minor [E] _ _ [Am] _ _ and so on up the guitar neck.
Great opportunity for you to take it to the next level with those ideas.
Let's walk through
the lick.
_ We're going to start off here on the 7th fret. _
[F#] I actually love to do a slide,
although a slide is not notated and that's for a reason because you can add those things
in by yourself.
_ [A] _ _
_ Classic, classic blues lick over a dominant 7th chord.
_ [Em] We can think about
that as coming out of that pattern 2 major [C#m] pentatonic.
[Am] _ _ [A] _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ [Em] Just classic stuff but then quickly
we're going to go and shift to pattern 2 minor pentatonic.
_ _ _ [A] _
_ _ _ [C#m] I know you're thinking, well this
note isn't in the minor pentatonic scale.
[Em] That's okay.
In this case we're going to use
it as just a cool added note.
Keep that in mind for future use.
_ _ _ [B] _ _
[Am] _ [B] _ _ _ Here on the second line
over the D9 chord.
[C] _ _ [B] _ I guess one thing to note there is to keep your first finger down when
you bend on that fret 9. _ _
So I got 1 and 2 down and I'm bending.
[Cm] _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ [Am] _ [N] All very standard [D#] sweet
spot pattern 2 stuff except for [Am] right now _ [G#] _
_ where we're going [F#] to end on this awesome note.
In fact that note is a C sharp and we're going to see this note highlighted often throughout
the tune.
C sharp is not in the [B] minor pentatonic but it's in the major pentatonic.
So we can
even think if we expand the idea that we've been in minor pentatonic with these cool bends _
[Am] _ _ _ [B] _ _ _ [Am] _ _
_ [C#] _ and then [D#] we just borrow from the [C#] major pentatonic and we can go down the scale _ _ _ _ [F#m] _ _
_ _ _ and we can see
how that scale lays right [G] underneath that note.
[Am] But what a great way to end over that
A7 chord.
Minor, minor, minor, then a little major. _ _ _ _
[B] _ _ _ [A] _ _ _ [D#] _ _
Major [B] and then we'll finish off the
lick by moving up into pattern 3 minor [Em] and _ _ _ [C#] _ bend that major note which is living right
here on top a half step away from where we're at. _
Great way to grab that note in a different
position.
This lick has so much for us to learn.
Definitely review those patterns.
See
how they're superimposed over one