Chords for Johnny Winter Blues Guitar Lick Lesson

[Bm] _ Hey, it's John with LearningGuitarNow.com.
In this podcast I'm going to show you a Johnny Winter influence blues guitar lick.
And you can play this lick in the [B] key of C on the blues turnaround section of the 12 bar blues.
It happens at the last couple bars of the 12 bar blues.
So you'll be playing this over a C and a G chord.
So I'm going to go ahead and play the lick for you and then I'll break it down of how
to execute this Johnny Winter style influence lick.
So this is the lick.
_ _ [Eb] _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ [F] _ _ _ _ _
_ [Gb] _ [G] _ _ _ _ [F] _ _
[E] _ _ _ _ [C] Okay, in this lick, like I said, it's to be played over the turnaround in the [Bm] key of C.
So let's break down how to play this lick.
Starting on the 10th fret of the G string, bend that with your 3rd [G] finger. _ _
_ [Em] The bar, the bottom two [G] strings with your 1st finger on the 8th fret.
_ [C] _ _
Common [F] Chuck Berry lick.
[C] _ _ _ _
Take your 3rd finger and bend it on the B string of the 11th fret.
_ _ _ _ Then play the root C on the 8th fret of the [G] high E string.
So now we have.
_ [Cm] _ _ _ [Bm] _ _
_ And then now we're going to hit the 3rd finger on the 10th fret. _ _
The 9th interval there.
_ And then a hammer on pull off your 1st and 2nd finger from 7 to [Cm] 8. _
_ _ _ So that part [G] is [Cm] this.
_ _ _ [C] _ _ _ _
And [D] then you're going to get on the 11th fret of the [B] B string. _
_ 8th fret of the high E [F] string.
_ [Ebm]
Back to 11, [G] 8.
And then [B] you're going to bend 11th fret [Bb] with your 3rd finger.
Just real [F] quick. _
So that's kind of like section one is this.
[Cm] _ _
_ [G] _ _ [Eb] _ _ _ _ _
[Cm] _ _ _ [C] And you're going to see Stevie Ray Vaughan do that kind of lick.
[E] And he may have got it from Johnny Winter [G] or maybe T-Bone Walker.
There's a lot of different blues guitar players that use that type of lick.
But I heard Johnny Winter do this.
It was a live, some kind of a live performance from a song.
I think it was 1971, I believe.
But it's just a blazing lick, blues lick.
So that's, you know, that lick you have to get down that first section.
[Eb] _ _ _ _ _
[C] _ _ And then it's just a [B] repeating lick that [F] happens four times.
[Eb] _ [F] _ [C] _ _ _ _ _
[Bb] _ 11, 8.
_ [C] _ Pull off where you're going to, well, yeah, slide actually from [Bm]
11 to [B] 10.
_ _ And then [Eb] pull off to the 8th fret of the G string.
So _ [B] _ _
[C] _ end on the root note C, 10th fret.
Do that four times.
_ [Eb] _ _ _ _
_ _ _ [F] _ _ _ [Abm] 8, 10 on the G.
_ Now you're going to take your first finger and bend that 8th fret [B] up. _ _ _ _
_ And then hit your root note C with the [C] third finger.
_ _ _ _ [N] Right when the 5 chord comes around, the G7, you're going to walk up to it.
[Gb] _
[G] _ _ _ _ _ G7 chord, root note on the A string.
We got a second finger on 10, 9, _ excuse me, first finger on the 9th fret.
Third finger on the 10th fret, so you got a G7 chord here.
_ _ _ _ _ [Db] Then we're going to do this cool little walk down chord [F] to a C9.
_ _ _ [Gb] _ [Bm] Easy way to remember that is the D chord formation, playing a C [Abm] sharp 9 to C9.
_ _ [E] _
_ [B] Really cool little transition back to the 1 chord of the turnaround.
_ _ _ [F] _ _
So to [B] play that chord, we're putting our first finger on [Bm] the 8th fret of the A string.
[G] Third finger on the 9th fret, second finger on the 8th fret.
[B] _ _
I like using my fingers as well.
[F] _ Pick first finger, second finger, _ _ _ [E] slide it [Fm] back.
You've got C sharp 9 to [F] C9.
_ [E] _
_ _ [B] The whole lick slowly is this.
[Cm] _ _ [B] _ [Eb] _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ [F] _ _ _ _ [C] _ _
[F] _ [G] _ _ _ _ [F] _ _ _
[E] _ _ _ _ _ _ [C] So it's just a really awesome lick to use over a slow [Bm] blues.
It's got a lot of speed to it.
You just got to get a couple [G] of parts that are going to be difficult for you.
The string [C] skipping of the repeated lick, you're [Eb] going to have to go.
_ [C] You can either pick [B] that or you can pull it off [Eb] on this part.
Pull off, or you can pick it. _ _ _ _ _
_ Or you can pull it off.
_ _ _ [Ebm] _
_ _ That 11-8 pull off.
[Cm] _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
[B] _ _ _ [F] _ _ He's always doing a lot of [G] speedy type licks, Johnny Winter.
The first part is just getting that executed nicely.
This [A] _ _
little _ part.
_ _ [Bb] _ _
You can break [Bm] it into a piece.
This section.
[F] _
[Cm] _ _ This piece you can [B] do over again until you get it [Eb] nicely. _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ [Gm] _
_ [G] That's kind of the trick to learning licks like this.
If you're having problems executing them, break them into smaller little sections and
just play each section until you can perform the whole lick _ fully.
So you have.
[Cm] _ _
_ _ _ That's the first part.
Do it slow. _
_ _ _ [G] _ _ _ Now the next [B] part.
[Eb] _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ Then you [Gb] just get each one separately and then put them [Eb] together. _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ [Ab] _ _ _ [C] _ _ [F] _
[Gb] _ [G] _ _ _ _ [B] _ [E] _ _
[F] So one more time really [Eb] slow. _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
[B] And then that's the part where you have to [Eb] string skip. _
[F] _ _ [C] _ Root on the D string [B] back to the root on the high E string.
[Cm] _ I like to use an upstroke with a pick to get back to that high E. _
_ _ _ _ _ _ [F] _ _
_ _ _ [G] _ _ 5-4-G-7.
[F] _ _ [E] _ Back to the C9.
Start of the 12-bar blues.
_ [Bm] Okay, so that is it for this podcast.
Johnny Winter style lick.
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