Chords for John Mayer Inspired Double Stops and Rhythm Techniques Taught by Session Master Tim Pierce

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Hey, what's up you guys?
Marty Schwartz here from GuitarJams.com.
We've got the great _ professional legendary session guitar player, Tim Pierce.
Thank you.
Thanks for being here, man. My pleasure.
Really, always, [E] always love having you here and I've gotten great feedback with you being here.
So, not only that, you've got your own YouTube stuff.
I do.
I'm excited about it.
He's got a link down there, so check out his YouTube channel.
We like to support these guys that make it all possible.
So thank you. _
_ He's going to give a lesson while you're here.
You might as well teach something.
Yeah, I got to.
I got to keep going.
So let's zoom in and break it down.
So this is a lovely R&B riff.
Lovely is a lovely word and this is a lovely R [D]&B riff. _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ [B] And I've been doing this kind of thing for a long time.
It originated in the 60s in Motown, probably.
Maybe even before that.
I have to check _ my research for that.
But the names that got bandied about were like _ Steve Cropper.
People ask me to play like Steve Cropper and [E] this is what I do.
_ [E] _ _ _ [A#] But there are lots of other guys.
[Bm] David T.
Walker was another [F] one.
Lots of [D] guys. _
_ _ _ _ [G#] I've used these kind of riffs on great classic records forever.
So what I'm doing, this is in the [D] key of D.
It could be anywhere, but I'm kind of visualizing
this D chord right here.
_ And I'm bringing my index finger up to grab the top of this D chord.
We have a D here, we have a D here.
I'm doing it right here.
So it's the [N] seventh fret.
That's kind of where my hand is resting.
And I take my index finger and [A] _ _ [D] _ [C] I bar across two strings to make this happen.
The first two strings I use are the fourth and fifth string.
[E] So I take my index finger _ and this is the seventh fret, fifth string.
And then I grab the next string over, seventh fret, fourth string.
[A] And I sound them.
And you can use a pick, but I'm using my [B] fingers because it makes it warmer.
I like to try and use my fingers when I can to make [E] a more kind of mellow [A] sound.
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But you can [A] use your pick.
Whatever is easiest for you. _ _
It's just a different [Bm] sound.
So the first thing I'm doing is grabbing [A] these two notes together.
_ _ [C#] And I do a hammer on, which is a two note hammer on, which might be a bit of a challenge,
might [F#m] not.
But it's a good thing to practice.
[D] _ _ _ _ _ [B] And the challenge really is, what you're doing is you're taking your [N] third finger and you're
grabbing on the same strings, you're grabbing notes that are exactly _ two frets up.
[E] It's a whole note up.
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_ And the really challenge of it is you don't want any of these other strings to [C] ring.
You want to be able to [A] strike _ [F#] with _ _ _ your third finger and just sound these two strings, the
same strings you had [A] down here.
_ [B] _ _ Okay, so you do that successfully, hopefully.
And then you go [F#] over with your index finger and grab the next two [D] notes _ on the third and fourth string.
This is very [A#] easy.
_ [B] _ _ [D] _ The only [B] hard part is this hammer [A] on, where you [F#] are sounding those [B] two notes with your
third finger and making sure _ these three strings don't sound at all.
That's the hard [E] part.
_ _ [B] _ _ [D] _ _ _
_ So then you pick _ with your right hand.
_ _ _ _ You're just moving your index finger _ [D] one _ string over.
_ _ _ _ _ _ That's the first part of the phrase.
[B] And this is really fun now.
Now [E] you take your index finger and you just slide it up two frets.
_ _ [A#] And then slide it back down.
So you only are picking it once, _ [E] _ _
[A] _ _ but you're getting [E] a [D] _
_ _ couple more phrases out of it. _
_ _ [D] _ _ [Em] And you're doing it for a musical [F#] reason.
You could pick it.
_ [D] _ _ _ _ _
It's just a different sound.
_ _ _ It's kind of smoother and mellower.
_ [E] _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ So that's the first part [G#] of the phrase.
I'll do it really slowly.
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[D] _ _ _ [E] _ _ [A] _ _ _
And [Gm] then to finish the phrase, I take these two fingers, _ the third finger and the little finger.
_ I kind of plant them here, which is kind of on an A note and an E note.
So it's the 10th fret, second string with your little finger.
[F#] And it's the 9th fret, third string with your third finger.
_ And that's where they're starting.
But I'm not going to stay there long.
I'm going to use that as a starting point to slide up [B] _
two _ _ frets.
_ _ [B] _
_ _ _ [F#] _ _ And then I slide back down.
_ _ _ _ [Dm] _ _ _
_ [Bm] And much like the way I did this, [D] I'm only [G#] picking once.
It's all with the left hand.
[B] _ Slide up, [A] slide down.
And you want to try and make sure that you're holding on strong enough, you're pressing
down strong enough, so that all the notes sound.
And that's a challenge.
[B] _ Slide up, _ [Am] hold, keep the strings pressed down _ [A] so that the notes sound nice and sweet and
strong [B] _ _ [Am] after you drop down.
_ Okay, then the last [G#] thing in this phrase, _ _ _ I'm taking my index finger and I'm just going
two strings over _ [D] _ to the [A#] second and third string.
And that's how I [A] end it.
So _ I've basically done this [D] _ with [E] my index finger throughout the phrase.
And the last _ _ piece of this phrase is the index finger on the _ 7th fret, third string, and
then the 7th fret, second [D] string.
_ _ [E] So you're up here [B] _ _ [A] and [D] _ _ _
you land.
And to [G#] review, you're kind of hovering around the top of a D chord right here, this D chord.
So that will have it make sense for you in the key of D major.
So here we go.
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_ _ _ _ _ [Em] Beautiful phrase, [F#] the kind of thing John Mary [A] uses a lot.
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But it came from a [E] long time ago.
Hey Tim, thanks a lot.
You're welcome.
I always love having you here.
Like I've said many times, and I'm going to keep saying it, and I'm also going to keep
telling people to check out your YouTube stuff, which is in the link down there.
And I can't wait to see what else you've got for us.
Thanks for all the comments.