Chords for One AWESOME solo by PETER GREEN

[E] I [A] don't want no one, _ _ [E] Steve John Culkin
_ _ _ [Fm] Now it sure takes balls to [A#m] follow up Eric Clapton as lead [F] guitarist in John Mayall and the Blues Breakers in the mid [D#]-60s
But the guitarist of today's episode didn't have any problem with that [F] and rightfully so because Peter Green is an [G#] amazing
Guitarist in his own [A#m] right.
I'm Guitar Pilgrim and today [F] we're gonna take a closer look [A#m] at the iconic intro [F#] of
Need Your Love so bad
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[Em] _ _ _ _ [A] _ _ _ _
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Now why is this such a good solo?
[E] Well first and foremost of all it has to do with phrasing.
Phrasing simply means you have a musical idea, a sentence
[F#m] With _ _ _ [C#] _ the beginning and an end, not too long.
There's a moment of silence and in [D] comes the next phrase
So [N] you basically have a statement and the response you're actually telling a story.
Now
Why is Peter Green's playing so very interesting?
Well anyone can come up with a musical idea, but look at the [E] amount of silence he uses
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_ _ _ _ _ _ two three
four
_ _ That's a huge pause.
Now why is that so very important?
Well consider this the next time you are improvising a solo with a backing track on YouTube for instance
Record yourself with a smartphone and when you listen to yourself
Ask yourself is there a moment of silence in there that takes about
Four seconds.
Most likely there is not and what most guitarists don't understand is that silence is
Also music you're actually playing
Silence and the longer the silence is the more
Emotional weight goes into the next phrase.
Let me give you an example
Let's say I play two phrases and I hardly use any silence
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[C] _ _ [Dm] _ _ Sounds nice, but the second phrase didn't sound particularly very important or anything now
Look what happens when I use a big moment of silence
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_ _ [Em] _ _ _ [D] _ _ _
[F#m] _ _ [Gm] _ _ _ [Am] _ _
Now all of a sudden that second lick is so much more important
Why well because you had to wait for it because of the silence you build up
Anticipation and along with the silence the more it's such a relief when the next lick is finally there
It wasn't that the lick was particularly any better than the previous example
The difference was the silence now another thing that's very good in this solo is the dynamics.
Let me show you
[F#m] _ _ _ _
_ Quite loud second phrase _ a bit softer third phrase [E] _ _ [Bm] _
_ [Am] _ _ _ _ [D] fourth _
_ _ _ _ Very loud [N]
soft
_ _ Loud [C] very _
[B] soft
_ Constantly is changing soft.
It's softer loud very loud and that is what makes it [Gm] interesting Peter Green
Understands that in order to have a good solo you need variation not just in dynamics, but also in rhythm
first couple of notes long and a bit
Stretched holding back the [Am] tempo
second [F#m] _ _ _ _ _ phrase fast notes
_ _ _ [E] Third phrase long and holding back again
[D] _ _ [Dm] _ slow [E] fourth [F#m] fast
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_ [N] So also there are lots of variation never doing the same thing twice and those are the ingredients of a great solo
Now we're in the key of A playing the A major pentatonic [A] scale
[C#m] _ [A] _ _ [B] _ [A] _
_ Now [B] _ _ [Am] mostly he just stays around the 10th fret on the B string
[D] Playing the BB King blues box three notes
It's _ _ _ _
_ _ _ [C#] amazing how he's able to keep his solo interesting while basically just using those three notes over and over again
Let's take a look at the [E] first phrase [F#m] and _ _ _ [E] the most important thing here is you don't want to just start
[F#m] Because _ _ you're most likely to start in a fast too fast tempo.
It's very important before you start take [G#] that moment
[E] think about the tempo in your head _ and then start
[F#m] Every _ _ _ _ note should have meaning right from the first note you want to grab your audience attention.
That's very important second phrase
[D] _ _ That's quite a fast lick isn't it _
If you have trouble playing this lick fast make sure that the palm of your right hand is resting against the bottom strings
This enables your hand to be more relaxed.
It's easier to play fast
_ And the third phrase [E] needs to be played very gentle
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also use the classical and traditional [A] vibrato because that one is a bit more gentle and [D] then _ _ _ _ _
[B] _ _ _ [C#] Short here.
[N] We have a very challenging note bend with vibrato _ _
This is very hard to do don't sweat it if it doesn't sound very good in the beginning
the point is to keep trying and just do it because you need to build the muscle and
In the beginning it might sound like this
[G] That's [G#m] what I used to have in the beginning make sure that the thumb is not pointing up, but tight grip around the neck
[B] You just have to build the muscle the point is just [N] to keep doing it and eventually
You'll get it [D] next up _ _
fast notes _ _ _ _
You hear the dynamics in there, I don't just do this or everything soft there's
_ It fluctuates _
_ _ [E] Make it a habit of playing that root note with vibrato soft your playing will [F#m] sound twice as good the end
_ [Am] [Bm] We've got [G#] intervals
[A] on a thirds
_ [B] _ [G#] _
E7 sharp 5
[A] And the intro is done and the actual song begins.
Let's see if we can play together this intro a bit slower [B] here we go _
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_ [E] And there you have it guys episode 2 done already the [C#m] iconic intro need your love so [E] bad played by the
[G] Incredible Peter [C#m] Green as always a huge [E] shout out and thanks [A] to my patreon supporters.
Thanks for [E] supporting the channel, and [C#] I will see you
[E] next time
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