Lick #3: Bent 3rd Chromatic (Guitar Lesson LK-003) How to play

Hey, how you doing? Justin here.

Welcome to Another Little Lick.

And this one is another A Lick.

We're going crazy on A and A7 licks.

Uh, this ones kind of outlining

the Arpagio again. This is bending

up to the major third of the A7.

Here's a real nice little trimatic run.

Really like the sound of that.

That's one of my
favorite kind of Blues sound

ahmm... and it's

dropping back to the root note.

And then we got...
It's really nice to learning for

Let's get to a close up and

check out this lick here right away.

Okay, so if we're starting here,

we put our first finger on the root note,

which in this case is the note A.

That's on top of the 10th fret.

The bend is gonna be from 2 fret's higher

than that which is not like a

normal minor pentatonic note.

The normal minor pentatonic....

those notes. Now, this is a tone bend.

So it's bending up to that note here

The C#

And then we got this little chromatic...

10, 11, 12... and then back to the root.

You can often think, when you put

your little finger down, you're playing...

which is.... the A7, if we made that right

up from the 12 fret, little A7 bar cord.

Top two notes are those....

That's where you're
getting this tone bend from.

Now we get back
in the Blue's territory...

little semitone bend

to the 12 fret.... And then little 11...

10, this is kind of...

... you see the note the sixth.

Kind of a common blues sound.

So have a bit of a play around with that.

There's lots of
different ways of kind of phrasing this.

Try and take the
lick and see how many different ways you

can kind of mix it in

with stuff you already know...

if you already know some pentatonic licks

Well, I hope you
get a lot of use out of that lick.

It's one of my pet favorites really...
I try and sneak it in there as often

as I can because I love the sound of that
little chromatic run and the bending

up to the major third
Gonna fix over the A7

I made it quite obvious this time
by putting my first finger on that

root note there on the 10th fret.
So, you know, you should be able to have

not too much trouble.

Just to move hopefully another note's

on the finger board a bit by now.

you know, you just put your first finger

on the root note on the second string.

When you put your third finger down

it's gonna be your first note to bend.

Ya know, so moving it to the key of E

you're gonna start and put your first

finger on the note E on the second string.

to the fifth fret. Play......

You gotta be doing that stuff.
And you gotta be using it so...

so I haven't reminded you lately which
I'm pretty sure I would've, but anyway...

make sure that you use your licks as much
as you can because that's the way to

incorporate them into your playing.
If you just learn them and play them

even if you play them a million
times if you don't practice using them

they'll never kind of happen when
you're playing. And that's what you want.

You want to practice using them
so they kind of become instinctive

and they become part of your vocabulary.
When you speak and you don't think,

Oh, I must try and fit in that
new word, you know. Practice using the

new word and it'll just naturally come
out in your language. have fun with all

of that and I'll see you for another lick
very, very soon. Take care of yourselves.

Bye, bye!