Chords for Killer Blues #2: Memphis/Candy Man

_ _ Well, hey everybody Bruce here welcome back and today what we're going to do is we're going to go over another
Blues lick in E
This is [D] a rhythm that you've probably heard before
But it's surprising what you can do with it.
It's got a really nice full sound [N] even with just one guitar
now this is mostly rhythm guitar and
You know
It's my feeling that rhythm guitar players are really [B] the unsung heroes of most of the rock and blues bands
Because without that rhythm really solid rhythm guitar player the lead lead player [Eb] can't
Really do anything [Ab] that sounds that good
We always you know, we always listen to the lead player and the lead parts and all the flashy stuff
But it's really the the rhythm section of the band the the drums the rhythm guitar and the bass
That are really the core of the band
So this is this is really good practice for a rhythm player, it's real simple but
It's it's a very full sounding riff if you do it, right?
[C] So it's a good exercise on keeping it simple and getting a really full sound.
So let's see [B] what it sounds like _ _
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_ [E] _ _ _ So obviously most of that is power chords, but there's a nice little run at the beginning of it
_ [Em] _ _ [E] And
That is in the E minor pentatonic scale.
So since we're going to be working off these open strings in the e
You know first position of the [B] pentatonic
_ _ [Em] Would be like that [Gb] and so the the second note that we played in the
[Em] Was right there.
So that would be the first note in the second position and we go
_ _ _ _ _ [B] _ [G] So [C] that's where we're working that scale.
We're starting here [Eb] on the third
string [Gm] and we're sliding up into that
[B] The first note of that run kind of like a [Bb] grace note and so we go
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_ _ _ _ _ _ [E] So that's working through [Ab] that grace [Db] note there and then sliding back down through it
[Dm] That is [Bb] obviously the blue note in the in [D] the blue scale
That we can bend there.
So again, it starts off in that blue note.
It's the third fret of the third [Bb] string
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That part is just using the the root the fifth in the root
_ Barred so the the last three strings six fifth and fourth string and we let the
[G] the root note on [E] both the E in the a
Be a drone string
So it [C] just rings out while we mute [G] the other ones
With by lifting [E] pressure here with our finger and also using the palm of our hand here _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ So [A] it gives it that sound a kind of a crunchy
[E] muted sound along with a drone
[N] When we when we jump to the five we go to a B which is up here on the seventh fret
[B] _ [G] That's our root note here [B] with the fifth on the ninth fret
[E] so we can go from the the five
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_ [Db] Four and
Then you know back to the one and then walk four [N] up to five like that
Now if you don't really want to stretch up to that and try to hit that
Sequence of notes as quickly as you need to in there.
You can kind of do it like more [E] of a traditional
_ _ [A] Something like that _ _ [Db] and then go back down.
Another thing you can do too is if you you can play the B
Which is the five chord
[E] _ _ [A] Simple like that and then you can drop back down to the a here and and it's easier to play that
So you [E] can go and _ _ [A] _
_ _ _ then [A] the four to the five _
_ [E] So then just to make things a little bit more interesting we put a rest in there so
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And then
It's always nice to come from the e to walk it if you really want a powerful sound in there
You just walk it right up
_ _ _ You know depending on where you start that you can start with a E and then [G] a F sharp G
[E] Sharp a or if you start a little bit later, you can just go
straight from an E to a [Ab] G sharp a
[E] So it could go like this _ _ _ _ _ _ _
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Okay, [D] so that's pretty much it
You know, it really boils down to the sound that you're getting you can tell when you got it, right?
So
That's kind of it so I hope you hope you can get something out of this and give it a try
It's a lot of fun to play.
It's a lot of fun to play in the band watch everybody dance and everything
So anyway, hope you enjoyed this and I'll see in the next video you take care now _