Chords for Joel Hoekstra - Lay it On Me intro lick
Tempo:
75.15 bpm
Chords used:
E
Em
G
Abm
Bbm
Tuning:Standard Tuning (EADGBE)Capo:+0fret
Start Jamming...
Hey everybody, this is Joel Hoekstra from Night Ranger.
My lick of the day here is the intro to our song
Lay It On Me from the album Somewhere in California.
Starts out with a little finger tapping.
[Abm] So when I sat down and came up with this lick, I was hanging out with Brad Gillis and and one of my tricks with
tapping that's just kind of a rhythmic technique is to take an inversion of a [Em] power chord.
So right here with my left hand
I'm just fretting a power chord and up here.
[Bbm] I'm [Eb] just taking with my right hand that inversion
But it's really the same two notes E and B.
It's just E5.
So I started with that and that's how you should probably start the lick to get it down.
It's just work on going with your middle finger on [E] the ninth fret on the [B] G
pulling off to the fourth on the G
and that's always your right hand is always gonna stay in the same spot here right on the ninth fret and with the left
hand or right hand here, I'm sorry tapping nine on the D
[E]
pulling off to two on the D.
So we've got this as a pattern and that's a great place to start.
Just try and get that going.
[G] One note on that you'll hear that the pull-offs happen real nice and clear and that's because when I'm pulling off with [Em] my right hand
I'm not pushing down.
You'll hear when I try and push down.
There's no real pull-off.
You have to pull up across the string to get that to ring.
Okay, so [E] get that going get just that pattern.
Okay.
Now the only thing that happens during this line
that's different than that is the notes begin to change on the G string with the left hand.
So I'm just gonna alternate as you can see in your tab going, you know from the fourth fret to the fifth [C] fret back to
the fourth to the [G] third.
So we've got this as a [E] general pattern and that repeats.
Now we're gonna go four five four five four five four three.
Okay, so here you are.
Voila.
One other quick side note about that lick.
You don't want to leave the left hand down the whole time.
I'm actually bouncing back and forth between the fourth and the second.
So when you work on the initial pattern work on lifting up
each left hand note so they're not just ringing.
If I left him down it would sound like this.
Okay, so I'm and even if you want to go this far try and get a little vibrato with the left hand.
My lick of the day here is the intro to our song
Lay It On Me from the album Somewhere in California.
Starts out with a little finger tapping.
[Abm] So when I sat down and came up with this lick, I was hanging out with Brad Gillis and and one of my tricks with
tapping that's just kind of a rhythmic technique is to take an inversion of a [Em] power chord.
So right here with my left hand
I'm just fretting a power chord and up here.
[Bbm] I'm [Eb] just taking with my right hand that inversion
But it's really the same two notes E and B.
It's just E5.
So I started with that and that's how you should probably start the lick to get it down.
It's just work on going with your middle finger on [E] the ninth fret on the [B] G
pulling off to the fourth on the G
and that's always your right hand is always gonna stay in the same spot here right on the ninth fret and with the left
hand or right hand here, I'm sorry tapping nine on the D
[E]
pulling off to two on the D.
So we've got this as a pattern and that's a great place to start.
Just try and get that going.
[G] One note on that you'll hear that the pull-offs happen real nice and clear and that's because when I'm pulling off with [Em] my right hand
I'm not pushing down.
You'll hear when I try and push down.
There's no real pull-off.
You have to pull up across the string to get that to ring.
Okay, so [E] get that going get just that pattern.
Okay.
Now the only thing that happens during this line
that's different than that is the notes begin to change on the G string with the left hand.
So I'm just gonna alternate as you can see in your tab going, you know from the fourth fret to the fifth [C] fret back to
the fourth to the [G] third.
So we've got this as a [E] general pattern and that repeats.
Now we're gonna go four five four five four five four three.
Okay, so here you are.
Voila.
One other quick side note about that lick.
You don't want to leave the left hand down the whole time.
I'm actually bouncing back and forth between the fourth and the second.
So when you work on the initial pattern work on lifting up
each left hand note so they're not just ringing.
If I left him down it would sound like this.
Okay, so I'm and even if you want to go this far try and get a little vibrato with the left hand.
Key:
E
Em
G
Abm
Bbm
E
Em
G
Hey everybody, this is Joel Hoekstra from Night Ranger.
My lick of the day here is the intro to our song
Lay It On Me from the album Somewhere in California.
Starts out with a little finger tapping. _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ [Abm] _ So when I sat down and came up with this lick, I was hanging out with Brad Gillis and and one of my tricks with
tapping that's just kind of a rhythmic technique is to take an inversion of a [Em] power chord.
So right here with my left hand
I'm just fretting a power chord and up here.
[Bbm] I'm [Eb] just taking with my right hand that inversion
But it's really the same two notes E and B.
It's just E5.
So I started with that and that's how you should probably start the lick to get it down.
It's just work on going with your middle finger on [E] the ninth fret on the [B] G
pulling off to the fourth on the G
and that's always your right hand is always gonna stay in the same spot here right on the ninth fret and with the left
hand or right hand here, I'm sorry tapping nine on the D
[E]
pulling off to two on the D.
So we've got this as a pattern and that's a great place to start.
Just try and get that going.
_ _ _ [G] One note on that you'll hear that the pull-offs happen real nice and clear and that's because when I'm pulling off with [Em] my right hand
I'm not pushing down.
You'll hear when I try and push down.
There's no real pull-off.
You have to pull up across the string to get that to ring.
Okay, so [E] get that going get just that pattern. _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ Okay.
Now the only thing that happens during this line
that's different than that is the notes begin to change on the G string with the left hand.
So I'm just gonna alternate as you can see in your tab going, you know from the fourth fret to the fifth [C] fret back to
the fourth to the [G] third.
So we've got this as a [E] general pattern _ _ _ and that repeats. _ _
Now we're gonna go four five four five four five four three. _
_ _ _ _ Okay, so here you are. _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
Voila.
One other quick side note about that lick.
You don't want to leave the left hand down the whole time.
I'm actually bouncing back and forth between the fourth and the second.
So when you work on the initial pattern work on lifting up
_ each left hand note so they're not just ringing.
If I left him down it would sound like this.
_ _ _ Okay, so I'm and _ even if you want to go this far try and get a little vibrato with the left hand. _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
My lick of the day here is the intro to our song
Lay It On Me from the album Somewhere in California.
Starts out with a little finger tapping. _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ [Abm] _ So when I sat down and came up with this lick, I was hanging out with Brad Gillis and and one of my tricks with
tapping that's just kind of a rhythmic technique is to take an inversion of a [Em] power chord.
So right here with my left hand
I'm just fretting a power chord and up here.
[Bbm] I'm [Eb] just taking with my right hand that inversion
But it's really the same two notes E and B.
It's just E5.
So I started with that and that's how you should probably start the lick to get it down.
It's just work on going with your middle finger on [E] the ninth fret on the [B] G
pulling off to the fourth on the G
and that's always your right hand is always gonna stay in the same spot here right on the ninth fret and with the left
hand or right hand here, I'm sorry tapping nine on the D
[E]
pulling off to two on the D.
So we've got this as a pattern and that's a great place to start.
Just try and get that going.
_ _ _ [G] One note on that you'll hear that the pull-offs happen real nice and clear and that's because when I'm pulling off with [Em] my right hand
I'm not pushing down.
You'll hear when I try and push down.
There's no real pull-off.
You have to pull up across the string to get that to ring.
Okay, so [E] get that going get just that pattern. _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ Okay.
Now the only thing that happens during this line
that's different than that is the notes begin to change on the G string with the left hand.
So I'm just gonna alternate as you can see in your tab going, you know from the fourth fret to the fifth [C] fret back to
the fourth to the [G] third.
So we've got this as a [E] general pattern _ _ _ and that repeats. _ _
Now we're gonna go four five four five four five four three. _
_ _ _ _ Okay, so here you are. _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
Voila.
One other quick side note about that lick.
You don't want to leave the left hand down the whole time.
I'm actually bouncing back and forth between the fourth and the second.
So when you work on the initial pattern work on lifting up
_ each left hand note so they're not just ringing.
If I left him down it would sound like this.
_ _ _ Okay, so I'm and _ even if you want to go this far try and get a little vibrato with the left hand. _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _