This time we are here for Lesson BL-024.
In which we are going to be checking out some licks
using position 4 of minor pentatonic and the Blue scale.
The licks that we are going to be doing are these.
So lick number one sounds like this
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Lick number two sounds like this
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Lick number three sounds like this
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Lick number four sounds like this
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I find it kind of fast, you can play this slowly as well.
And lick number 5 is this one. A pretty weird one
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Which I will explain a little bit more when we go to a close up.
So let's start off.
Close up of lick 1, here we go !
Ok. Lick no1 was this
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Now this one's a really really cool little trick here.
What we are doing is putting the 1st finger in the 12th fret,
2nd finger in the 13th fret
and we are going to put a curl just on the 13th.
Rhythm for this is going 1 2 3 and 4 and
So first two is beat 1 and beat 2.
Now, normally my fingers would be kind of holding over
but here I'm just pulling them back, so you can see.
1st finger staying where it is, and the 2nd finger is doing a little curl.
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Then we finish 3rd finger is now going on the 14th fret of the 3rd string.
We are putting it down a little bit flatter than normal .
because it's going to play there
and then roll onto its tip to play the 14th fret of the 4th string
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Then 1st finger on 12th fret 3rd string
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And finishing back on the root note. Slowly :
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A little faster
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And faster again
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Now lick no2 here is this
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Now this one, we are starting here with the bend with the 3rd finger 15th fret
and then while we are holding a bend,
we are going to sneak our little finger underneath
to play the 15th fret of the thinnest string.
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Of course we've got to release in there, as well.
So we are doing a bend,
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play the note
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and you can see at the time I'm hitting that one, I'm also muting the bent note
but I'am muting it with the picking hand.
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So at that point you can hear the bend disappears
and that's because I'm allowing my picking hand to touch that second string.
Now, once its touch to the note is finished
I can then bring it back down again, ready for the next bend
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Definitely worth practising, just that a little bit.
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Now the next part
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We've got 15th to 13th flick-off using 3rd finger to 1st finger
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2nd finger on the14th fret 3rd string
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then 3rd finger back on 15th
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finishing with a curl on the 13th fret with the 1st finger
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The whole lick
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Into Lick no3.
Lick no3 is starting with a tone bend from the note G,
3rd finger 15th fret of the thinnest string
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Then it's coming back down,
so again we're using our picking hand to mute the strings at the top
so that we don't get seagulls.
If you are unsure about how to do this thing, check out the Bending video
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Here we're using a 3rd finger to 1st finger flick-off, 15th fret to 12th fret.
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3rd finger is moving over to the 15th fret of the 2nd string .
and then back to 1st finger on the thinnest string.
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Now at this point, we are using 2nd finger now
on the note C which is the 13th fret, which gets a curl,
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and finishing with the 3rd finger on the root note,
which is 14th fret 3rd string.
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Nice and slow
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Little faster
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and it can be quite fast.
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Lick No4. We are using a blue note again
right of the back with that hammer-on and flick-off
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So that's the 12th fret of the 4th string,
hammering on 2nd finger into the 13th, flicking it off again
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then picking little finger 15th fret on the 5th string
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Now we've got here a little string of hammer-ons .
So use it going through the blue note,
which is 1st, 2nd, 3rd fingers, 12th,13th 14th frets on the D string
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Onto the G string, we've got 1st finger 14th fret
and we are hammering on the 3rd finger onto the note A
which is the 14th fret of the G string.
Flick here it off again back to note G, first finger
and we are finishing off there with a little 2nd finger curl
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and finishing back on the root note, so we have this
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A very nice little lick!
Again nice and slow
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A little faster
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Faster again
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And, really fast!
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Lick no5, this one's using a little trick that we use sometimes while we are playing.
It's called playing in 4ths where we play the notes of the scale.
I think of it as 2 sides like (plays) the 2nd side and the first side.
We are playing these 2 notes like
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That's the pattern.
So if you thought of it like a little box, we are kind of going up the box,
back and then down the box.
It's kind of going around in a little square there.
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And then you could do the same thing on the next set of strings.
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And the next set.
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You see this is a little pattern.
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And that's as far as we take here with this pattern,
but I'am also that would normally be played as either sixteenth notes or eighth notes,
because it's a 4 note pattern.
But to make a little bit more interesting I have turned them into triplets.
So you get a quite a different feeling.
Having this 1-trip-let 2-trip-let 3-trip-let 4-trip-let
Makes it kind of weird.
It disguises the fact that it's a 4 note pattern.
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and then to finish it we've got.
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We are just shifting out of the position for that last note.
Nice and slow.
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Every note is picked.
A little faster.
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and a little faster again.
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Get cracking on those,
make sure that you are really confident using the licks and with the scale
before we get into the next lesson
which is going to be POSITION 5. Ride up the dust here.