Chords for Those Fast SRV Circular Licks

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[A#] _ _ _ Hello friends, _ it's time for free lesson Friday.
_ This is Anthony from StevieSnacks.com. No, my name's not Stevie.
My name's Anthony and today I'm gonna be giving away
the keys to the kingdom as they say.
That little circular lick right there is something that has baffled many a
Stevie Ray Vaughan fan.
I've actually taught it in some of my premium lessons already. _ _
But in the spirit of giving I'm gonna show you how to do it today.
It's actually fairly simple. _ _
The core thing that I'm talking about here is that little_ _ _
[F#] _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
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[F#m] _ _ _ Alright, so Stevie did that a bunch of different ways, but what I'm gonna do is I'm gonna break it into four _ _
individual licks that you can use [G] in different orders to create longer sequences.
We're gonna start with this one right here.
_ _ [B] _ _ [F#] _
_ Okay, now we're in the key of F sharp here [A] or G flat if you prefer.
I'm in half step down tuning like Stevie was and I'm in this key because that's the key that
Texas Flood is in and this is one of the songs where he would do it fairly regularly. _
_ So where you would normally come in with this technique is following that [G#] traditional.
_ [C#m] _ _
_ _ [F#] _ _ Okay, after something like [Am] that
[C#] _ you [A] just come back up here to the G string on a third [B] fret,
_ _ [F#] bend on the fifth [C#] fret of the G string,
jump right up here to the B string the third fret [C] and then [B] drag from six [A] _ to five,
pull off to three [F] on G down to
_ five on [B] D.
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Okay, now it's good practice just to repeat that over and [A] over again. _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ [F#] _ _ _ [C] To mix it up, you don't always have to do [F#] that bend. _ _ _ _ _
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I'm just doing a little_
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_ _ _ _ _ [D#m] _ Picking is very simple.
All right, let's add one more lick to this to give us a few more options.
When you land down [B] here,
_ _ [D#m] _ you want to make sure to land [E] with your middle finger because you're gonna jump right back up here with your ring finger
[C] to the sixth fret of the B string _ _ [F#] _
and then [F] drag back [B] down again.
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_ _ [Am] _ _ _ _ _ _
_ [A#] _ [F#] _ _ _ And you want to get really [G#] good at
exaggerating that drag. _
[B] _ _ _ _ _ _ _ [F#]
Sometimes [A#] he would slow down at that point to emphasize that part.
So if you mix those two together,
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_ _ [F#] _ okay, you can hear it already starting to take form.
_ Let's add one more to our collection here and that's gonna be starting from the same point,
[A] _
go back up to [C#] the third fret of the G string and then slide with your ring finger
_ from five to [A#m] seven,
_ _ _ [C#m] catch the B string at the sixth fret with your middle finger [B] and _
back [C#m] down.
_ [Bm] _ _ _ _ _
[C#m] _ _ [F#] _ _ _ And that slide right there,
[A#] _ _ [B] _ _ _
_ _ [F#] _ _ _ _ _ _
[B] _ _ _ _ on [C#m] the way back down, right after you pick this note, you want to try and _
[G#m] [G] hit both of those notes [C#m] on the way back down.
[F#] _ _ _
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_ _ It's a little reverse rake there.
All right, so with those three we could do things like this.
[C] _ _
_ [F#] _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ [B] _ _ _ [F#] _ _ _
[G#] _ _ _ [D] _ _ _ _ [F#] _
All right.
Now there's one more that we're gonna stick in there that doesn't flow quite as well,
quite as good as the other ones, but it provides a little bit of _
contrast.
_ From here again, we're [E] gonna jump back up here like we did before, sixth fret of the B string,
but then we're gonna go right into a [G] bend at [B] the fifth fret of the G string with your middle finger,
_ _ [A#] bring it back down and play it straight [A] and then hammer on pull off _
from three to [F#] five,
_ [B] _ _ _ _
[C] _ _ [B] _ _ _ [D#m] _ ending up at the fifth fret of the D string.
_ _ So once again, our four [A] parts are
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_ _ _ [B] second one, _ _ _
[D#m] _ _ _ third [B] one _ _
_ _ [F#] _ _ and our [C] fourth one.
_ [A] _ _ [F#] _ _ _ _
Now if we kick on a little overdrive here, you [D#] can hear it sound a little bit more like Stevie when we do things like this.
_ [C] _ _ [F#] _ _ _ _
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_ _ _ _ _ _ So what I did there at the end is a good example of what you can do to get out of this little [C] circular thing [F#] here. _ _ _ _
_ _ Same way that you got into it. _ _
_ _ _ _ [C#] _ _ _ [B] _
_ [F#m] _ _ _ _ [F#] _ So this little,
[C#m] _ [F#] _ _ that can be a good way to get out of that little circular lick thing you're doing there.
Anyway, that's it right there.
There's a few other minor things that he did to augment that, but those are the four key motions that you want to master.
It's gonna take a lot of _ _
forearm endurance to do that over and over again.
But each one of those licks you can do is a little drill
to perfect them and then work on mixing them.
And the goal is to get to the point where you could just play and play
and play and just be thinking of different combinations on the fly.
Anyway, I hope that's useful to you.
Until next time, thanks for watching. _ _ _ _ _
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