Chords for Mash And Flutter: Slash Godfather Lesson Lick 1

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Alright, [C#] _ _ _ _ _ _ _
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_ [C#] _ _ _ _ _ _ [D#] _
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_ [F#] _ _ _ _ _ _ [C#] _
_ _ [D] so that's one of the licks that I used in [C] my Godfather [D#] Improv solo that I did
a while back. _
It's actually a lick that I first learned [D] in the solo [G] to Monkey Chow by Slash's Snake Pit.
I did a cover of that on the channel.
Check it out.
It's a great song.
[F] But I learned that lick in there and it's just a really, really, really cool lick. _
[A] _ So here's what I'm going to do.
I'm going to break it down into two parts, _ but I'm just going to, with one caveat, it's
one of those licks that I can play up to speed no problem, but then when I slow it down and
try to explain it, I kind of get lost in it and it becomes more frustrating to teach.
So I'm just going to try to play it really slow and hopefully you guys just play [G] the
video a few times and you guys can figure it out.
So here we go.
Alright, so we're going to start here.
I'm just going to get you guys centered [C#] here.
_ Here's [D#] the box shape that we all know and love.
[G#m] _ _ _ _ _
_ [D#] _ _ [E] _ But we're up here.
Right up here.
_ [C#] _ _ Okay, so this is where we're going to start.
So it starts out like this.
Well, here's part one. _
_ _ _ _ _ [D#m] _ _ [F#]
That's the first part of the lick.
_ So, [D#] slowly. _
[F#] _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
[B] _ _ _ _ [C#m] _ _ _ _
[A#] _ _ _ _ _ _ [B] _ _
[F#] _ _ _ _ _ _ Okay, [F] one more time.
_ _ [F#] _ _ _ _
_ _ _ [C#m] _ _ _ _ [D#] _
_ _ [B] _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ [G] So just go ahead and just play that part of the video over and over again.
I [D] know I'm going to get lost in it if I try to teach it, but [G] if there's one thing that
[N] I kind of like to point out, at least technique wise, is to make this easy, you're going to
have to use your ring finger [C#] to bar [F#] that part right there.
So, _ _ _ right there. _ _
It's much easier to bar that _ right there [D] than to actually try to do it individually fret by fret.
So that's something that you have to kind of get used to, but there's a lot of ringing
notes in this phrase.
So, again, [B] finally, one more time, first part like this.
[F#] _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ [C#m] _ _ _ _ [D#] _ _ [A#] _
_ [B] _ [D#] _ _ _ And here's the second part.
[F#] _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ [G#] _ _ _ _ _ [D#] _
Slowly.
[Am] _ _ [G#] _ _ [F#m] _ _ _
[D#] _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ [F] _ _ _ [F#] Now, the only thing that was really [F] tough for me actually when actually learning [G] this
lick _ was the fact that everybody's used to seeing the [D] fretboard their own way.
I kind of view the fretboard in shapes, and so I'm kind of used to seeing it in this [C#m] box shape.
_ _ _ [F#] And then, where we [Em] started up here.
And so to actually kind of shift into these notes when you're going from _ [C#] right _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ [F#m] _
here into
[F#] this, _ _ _ _ [D#] _
_ _ _ took me a little getting used [D] to, because I wasn't used to actually, I'm used to seeing
the [E] fretboard like, instead [Am] of doing, _ [G#m] _ that was [Em] really foreign to me.
So, if that hangs you up a little bit, [G] if you're used to kind of seeing the fretboard
the way I [Em] was seeing it, with the pentatonic shape there, you know, don't fret, no pun
intended, [D] _ you'll figure it out.
And it'll feel natural after a [F] while, but it's a really, really cool run, so let's go
ahead and do the whole thing slowly, one time.
_ _ [F#] _ _ _
_ _ _ [C#m] _ _ _ _ _
[A#] _ _ [B] _ _ [F#m] _ _ _ _
_ _ [D#] _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ [G] And now, one [E] time, _ [C#]
up to speed.
_ _ _ _ _ [G#] _
_ [C#] _ _ _ [F#] _ _ _ [E] _
_ [C#] _ _ [C#] _ _ [D#] _ And that's it.
There's so much more here in the Mezz. _ _