Chords for Simple Acoustic Blues Guitar Lick in E - Train Whistle Lick

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_ _ [E] _ _ _ _ Hey everybody John here with [Fm] the Blues Guitar Institute and today
I got to tell you that I firmly believe that being a good guitar player is about doing the little things and
Doing them well and over time they add up to something big
You know it adds up to you know what you would call a good guitar player
You know or a confident player, and that's what we're aiming for here, so along those lines
I want [N] to show you a really simple lick that you can use as a stepping stone
Into other licks longer licks with more melody and movement, but this is to me like the first step to getting
To getting there you know to be able to to improvise in and out of licks and the rhythm
Like I was doing in the opener so here we go
Let me let me get back to the guitar
And I'll show you exactly what the lick is note for note
And then how to put it into your playing and how to really practice this thing up
So the lick is right here in this position which is classic blues territory in the [G] key of E
_ These two notes sound super bluesy together especially when you bend _
With your middle finger and you get that train whistle sound right _ _ _ _ _ _ _
okay?
So where am I I'm right here on the seventh fret of the first string which is a B
Note and then the G note here.
I'm catching with my middle finger on the second string
So _ these are the two notes
[B] That I'm dealing with and the lick is nothing more than picking the first [Em] string
Picking the second [G] string and bending up _ _
Slightly it's one of those quarter note bends so so between the frets
_ _ And [Em] then I pick up my first finger hit the open E pick up my [Bm] second finger
Hit the open B.
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_ Now what I love about [Dm] this lick in particular is not only its simplicity
_ _ But when you've [B] got your [E] hand away from the fretboard and you're playing these open strings
That's a great time to go back and grab your rhythm
You know so you can really keep your rhythm going and play this little lick in time like this
And [Em] _ _ _ [E] _ _ _
[Em] _ _ never miss a beat so practice that really get comfortable with going back and forth between the E shuffle
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staying in time.
It's very important
But um you know really focus in on this lick because it's it may seem simple
But it's super cool and very easy to just throw in between the shuffles
But like I said before it becomes a real building block for other licks so with that
I hope you have fun with this one
I hope you get some use out of it and be sure to throw it in your playing whenever you're just hanging around with acoustic guitar
_ And before we go a quick note
I am playing this finger style, but you can certainly do this with a pick if you're a picker
So anyway enjoy this one have fun with it, and I'll see you next time.
Thank you for tuning in.
[E] Bye _
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