Chords for SRV Little Wing Hammer-ons

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[G#] _ _ [F#] _ _ _ [E] _ _ [G#m] _
[F#] _ _ _ [C#] _ _ _ _ _
_ _ [D#m] _ _ _ _ _ _
Hey everybody, this is Anthony from Stevie Snacks and this is another free [C#m] lesson Friday.
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In this lesson we're going to take a look at some hammer-ons that Stevie Ray Vaughan
played when he covered the song Little Wing for the recording that made it onto the Sky
Is Crying album after he passed away.
_ So I'm teaching this to you because I played it wrong for like 15 years and then it wasn't
until I'm giving lessons to somebody here in town that I realize that I'm playing it wrong.
So the part that I'm talking about is right after the first kind of soft solo when he does this.
[F#] _ _ _ [E] _ _
[A#] _ _ [B] I thought he _ _ _
_ [C#] went_
_ Turns out [F#] that's not what he plays.
I think I have it figured out now so I'm going to show that to you.
Hopefully I'll get it right and if I get it wrong I'm sure one of you will kindly let me know.
The way that you lead into it is if you think about playing this chord right here, an E
form at _ the 15th fret here.
What we're going to do is we're going to bend on the G string from the 14th [A#] fret up to the 16th fret.
That's the part [F#] of the little triad.
_ _ So we're going to bend [A#] up a whole step [F#] _
and then hit the top two [C#] strings and [F#] _ _ [C#] _
then repeat
it two frets lower.
[E] _ _ _ [B] _ _
_ But here's where it gets interesting.
This is where I thought he went to an E form chord right here _ at the 10th fret.
I'm sorry, that would be the 8th fret.
_ _ _ [G#m] But this hammer on [E] _ _
_ just didn't sound right.
So then I figured out that he's actually [C#] hammering on from this note to [D#] this note.
_ _ [G#m] Which has a very different [D#] sound.
So _ _ _ _
_ [B] it turns out that if you take this E form chord and you find the identical chord down
here as a beat A form _ _ at the third fret, starting on the B string and playing all the way up
to the E string there. _ _
[D#m] If you take the top two notes of this chord _ and you [G#]
lower that one, the one on the [F#] B string
a whole step, _ _
[B] _ and [F#] then you hammer on and off _ [B] and then hit the third note down [F#] in the chord.
_ _ _ Turns out that sounds a whole heck of a lot closer to what he's actually playing than
what I was doing. _
_ _ [D#m] You _ _ [B] can also do this with the E form up here.
_ Again, we're at the 8th fret.
If you take the B, [G#m] G, and D strings out of that chord and then re-wire your fingering
[F#] here, drop the note on the G string a whole step, [B] _ [G#m] and do a hammer on there with [F#] your ring
[B] _ _
finger and [F#] then do that little reach.
You get the same notes but a slightly thicker sound.
_ _ _ Down here it's a little thinner. _ _
_ _ [B] _ [F#] _ _ _ _
And the timing of it all, regardless of which place you play it is. _ _ _
[B] _ _ _ [F#] _ _ _ _ _
Then the [G#m] next thing you play, [C#] I'm pretty sure _ it's an E form chord up here at the 10th fret.
So two frets up from [F#] where we were.
[B] _ _
_ [C] _ [C#] _ _ _ _ _ _
[G#] The way that I play this is [Fm] that I don't use this [D#m] grip for these kind [G#m] of chords.
I use what I call the grip.
I use a version of it where I leave the A string [C#] out and I basically play the low E
string and then the upper four strings there.
Or I should say [G#] lower on the fretboard, [F#] the lower four [C#] strings.
That leaves my ring finger here _ free for some hammer ons.
So then you would just _ _ _ _ _ _ go_
_ A little bit syncopated. _ _ _ _
_ [C#] _ So _ _ _ _ _ _ [D#m] you put those back to [F#] back, you get _ _
_ _ [C#] _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ [D#m] _ _ _ _ _
_ _ those harmonics in there which are nice and evil sounding.
[F] So anyway, to put it all together again, you've got these two bends up.
[F#m] _
_ [G#] _ _ _ [E] _ _ And again, all you're doing there is taking the top part of [F#] an E form bar chord, _ [D#m] dropping
the one on the G string two frets, bending up on that to hit the right.
_ [C#] _
_ [F#] _ Then just strumming the top two notes of the chord.
_ _ _ [G#m] Drop that two frets.
[E] _ _
_ [D#m] And drop down here to the third fret, bar the E and the B strings, hammer on two frets
up on the B string.
_ Tap on the G string there.
[F#] _ _ _ [C#] E form bar chord at the 10th fret. _
_ _ _ _ _ _ [D#m] _ _
Low E, evil [F#] harmonics. _ _ _ _
So [Cm] anyway, that's how I think you play that part.
I hope it's right.
Let me know if you think that it's different, but do so nicely or else I'll delete your comment.
Anyway, I hope you're having a good 2011.
Until next time, thanks [N] for watching.