Chords for Reelin' in the Years Harmony Guitar Lesson - 2 of 4

_ Okay then, let's look at the lower melody line, which I consider to be the main melody line, or the lead melody line.
And the way they've worked these melody lines out is they're basically based over two chords.
They're based over _ a G major 7 chord and an A chord.
And we're playing over those notes, and the harmony lines are based on the G major scale and the G minor pentatonic scale.
And when he goes up to the A chord, he combines the A minor pentatonic scale with the A major scale.
And it sounds great, the harmony lines that he chooses.
Now it's all obviously tabbed out for you with all the notes, so you can see what the corresponding notes are.
We're not going to go into all the theory of that, it's quite a complex issue.
So, we'll just start off with the first melody line.
So we're going to start off, the first bit we're going to show you is [G] this. _
_ As you can see, I've taken my _ effects off so you can hear what I'm playing.
So this is the first bit.
We're starting off on the E note, which is the second fret of the D string.
Hammering on to the fourth fret of the D string, which is the F sharp note, and then playing the open G string twice.
_ As you can see, I'm not [F#] letting the notes ring out.
[G] _ _ As I hit the first note, my pick comes back and stops it playing, and I do the same on the second note as well.
_ _ _ Like that.
OK, so we do [E] it slowly.
[G] _ _ _ _ _
_ _ OK, now I'm going to play the next part of the riff. _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ [B] _ [G] _ _ [D] _ _ It's a bit more complicated that, isn't it?
And it's obviously a lot faster.
So we [G] _
have_
_ [F#] And we _ [G] _ [B]
[G] have_
_ [C] And again.
[G] _ _ _
_ [F#] _ _ [G] _ [B] _ [A] _ [F#] _ _
So, we're going to the second fret of the D string, onto the fourth fret of the D string, [G] open G, which is the [N] third string.
Then we're hitting the A note, which is the second fret of the G string, and [E] then the B note, which is the fourth note of the G string.
[G] So we _ [B] have_
Then we're going to go back down to the [A] A note again, and then pull off to the [G] G.
You don't have to pull [N] off.
You can play every note, or you can, _ _ obviously, hammer on where you need to.
But I'll explain a bit more about that in a minute.
[G] So we have_
_ _ [F#] That's the way I play it.
[G] _ _ _ _ [F#] _ You can play it like this, hitting every note.
[G] _ _ [B] _ [Em] Or you can do more hammer-ons and pull-offs.
_ _ _ [D] _
_ [F#] _ [F#m] _ _ _ [G] _ _ _
[F#] _ _ Up to you.
I'll just teach it the way I play it, but you can vary [Em] how you want to do it, depending on what sounds best for you.
So we [G] _ have_
_ [F#] So when we've gone to the A note, B there, second note on the second fret, G string, pulled off to the A, then we go down to the fourth fret of the D string, which is the F-sharp note.
So we _ [Gm] _ [D] [A] have_
[F#] _ _ And the last bit is _ [G] _ _ [F#] like that.
[F]
So again, I'll play the whole [D#m] part of that second riff slowly [F#] for you.
[G] _ [D] _ _ [F#] _ _ [D#] _ _
_ So we're going D [E] string, second fret, hammering on to the fourth fret.
[F#] _ And then we go into [G] the open G.
_ _ Then the A note, second [A] fret, G string.
_ [G#] Pulling off, or playing the [A] note [G] twice.
And then back down to the F-sharp note, which is the fourth fret of [F#] the D string.
So [E] we [G] have_ _
_ _ [F#] _ _ [G] _ _ [F#] _
[E] So we put all that bit together, and we _ [G] _ _ _
_ _ [E] _ [G] _ _ _ _ _
[Gm] _ _ [F#] have_
[E] And one more time.
[G] _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ [F#] _
[G] _ _ [F#] _ OK, so that's the first phrase.
_ Now we're going to sort of_
he takes it up to [C] playing the notes that are based around the A chord.
All that was around the G major seventh chord.
So the second bit goes like [A] this. _
[F#m] _ _ _ _ [D] _ _ [Em] _ _
[D] _ _ _ _ [Em] _ _ _ [A]
[G] Difficult to play slow, that one, because you haven't done the pull-offs.
So, what we're going to do now is instead of _ going_
We're going to [G#m] _ _
[F#] _ [A] go_
[F#m] So we're going to hit that A note.
So we're going to have the D string, second fret, hammer on to the fourth fret.
And then hit the A note, second fret, G string twice. _
_ _ Like that. _ _ _
[A] _ _ Now [F#] comes the more difficult bit.
We're going to hit the fourth fret of the D string.
The second fret of the [A] G string, which is the A note.
[F#] _ [A] _ _
[Fm] Then we're going to [D] _ [F#m] _ go_
[N] So we're going to hit the D note.
Now get your fingers in this sort of position here across the second fret.
So you don't have to keep moving your fingers too much. _
Oh, I'll just put this back on here.
This T-shirt's so tight, I can't actually_
Can't actually keep the microphone on it.
Not doing a particularly good job here, am I?
Anyway, bear with me two seconds, guys.
OK, so we're going to go_
Sort of like in the D [D] chord shape, D major shape.
We're going to hit the D note, which is the third fret of the B. _
And pull [F#] off, [D] like that.
_ _ [C#] _
[N] And then we're going to hit the second fret of the G string, which is the A note.
[D] So we _ go_
_ So _ _ _ [E] what do we [F#m] have? _
OK, _ _ [D] _ _ _ _ _
_ now this is the tricky bit.
Once you've [F#m] done_
You've [E] now got to go all the way up to the fifth fret of the E string.
Play it, and pull off.
[B] Like that.
And once you've pulled off, you've got to get back down to the A note, [D] there.
_ [Em] _ _ [A] _ _ _ [D]
Now, the Steely Dan guitarist doesn't have to move his hands.
Mine aren't quite big enough to stretch, so I have to move mine up and down.
So what we _ [D#] have_
[E] _ _ [A] _ [G] And then repeat it.
[F#m] _
_ [E] Like _ [A] _ _ that.
[F#] So the second phrase goes like [A] this. _ _ _ _
[E] _ [F#] _ [A] Oh, sorry.
_ _ [F#m] _
_ _ _ [D] _ _ [F#m] _ [E] _ _
[D] _ _ _ [F#m] _ _ [E] _ _ _
_ I might not have mentioned it, but it's actually the fifth fret of the B, pulled off to the open B string.
Like that.
_ [A] _
_ OK, so the whole part of that riff, slowly, the main [E] riff, goes like this.
[G] _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ [F#m] _ _ _
_ _ _ [D] _ _ _ [E] _ _
[D] _ _ [C#] _ [A] _ [Em] _ _ [A] _ _
[N] OK, so that's the first bit.
_ What you need to do_
As I said earlier, it's actually quite difficult to play slowly [Em] when you're [A] going_
When you're [N] pulling your fingers off like that.
Because what tends to happen is you're pulling the fingers off, you're moving to the next position, you're dampening the string above.
_ It just sort of makes it sound a bit cleaner.
But anyway, not to worry about that.
So we've got to practice that, get up to speed.
_ Play along with the backing track, just playing that over and over again.
Then go on to the next video and I'll show you the harmony line that goes over the top of what I've just shown you. _ _ _