[Script Info]
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[Events]
Format: Layer, Start, End, Style, Name, MarginL, MarginR, MarginV, Effect, Text
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Hey, how are you doing? Justin here.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,In this lesson today,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,we are checking out Eric Clapton's first solo,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,from his song Crossroads, with the Cream band.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Awesome song all-round
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and some great solos later on as well.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,For these first two choruses of solo that he plays
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,we've got some really interesting stuff.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,A lot of mixing up between the major and the minor pentatonic scale,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,loads and loads of great licks.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So, what we're going to do...
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Go to a close-up, I'm going to play it once through,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,just kind of at a slow tempo.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So any of you fast learners can just kind of watch
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,where I'm putting my fingers and off you go.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But then I'm going to try to break it down, lick by lick
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and explain kind of a little bit about what he's doing,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,where he might have gotten the idea from,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,so you can kind of chop it up yourself and steal the
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,individual licks and improvise with them yourself.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That's the plan.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So, let's get to a close-up.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Lick number one
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And lick number two
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Now both of these licks are quite similar.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This is an A major pentatonic scale.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Very common to use this second to fourth fret,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Second to fourth fret,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,on the fourth string and the third string.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So really, the big difference here,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the first time it's a bend
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And the second time he slides up from
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the fourth fret to the sixth fret.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Lick number three is staying with the
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,major pentatonic.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So it's really here, five to seven...
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We might let those two ring together a bit actually.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Two five's.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Playing both five's and hammering down the
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,third finger on the seventh fret.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Five, seven.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Now here we've got that little kind of minor to major thing.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Fifth fret to sixth fret.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,While holding down the fifth fret on the second string too.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And lick number four...
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Straight up the minor pentatonic scale.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So, now we've changed straight away from the
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,major pentatonic to the minor.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's an important bit, to get that.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So, these first few licks together.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And all of that is of course played over the A chord.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Now the band's moved to D and he plays this...
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Really like that lick, this is the great one.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So...
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Nice bending, seventh fret.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Up to the root note.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Eighth fret, second string, bend.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And then, leaping off to the fifth fret to seventh fret hammer-on.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Love that lick, great.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This is an interesting one as well, so we've got
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,this little hammer-on and flick-off.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,To the A.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's a little bit muted on the record, you go...
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Now, I always thought it was...
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That he's bending and playing the E on the second string.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But when I was doing this transcription, I could
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,hear that the E note and the G note, which is the
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,next one are ringing together.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And you can only get that here.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So, I sussed out that it was...
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So, it makes it a little trickier, but it's a lot nicer.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And you get that nice kind of...
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Where you bend and then slide up to the same note,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,so you've got...
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That's the whole lick.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Really like that one.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Then we've got...
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Now I suspect, to be honest, this was actually just
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,meant to be...
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And a straight jump which is pretty common in a lot
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of the guys that influenced Eric Clapton.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But he gets a little...
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Where he's gone from the ninth fret to the tenth fret.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I suspect he's just kind of missed it a bit.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,There's a little step up there.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Then we've got a little eight, ten.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And that's a ten.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Then we're going to get back down.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We've got here a little eight to ten hammer-on...
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,With an eighth fret on the thinnest string.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And then a nice little run-down.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Yeah and I always used to play that slightly wrong,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but...
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,A little bit awkward how, 'cause we've got this little
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,five-six hammer-on. Two notes on the note E, the
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,fifth fret of the second string...
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And we've definitely got a pretty strong curl...
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's not a proper bend, it's just a curl with the first finger.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,To the root, and then the same finger has to jump off
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the A and slide down to the D, the fifth fret of the fifth string...
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And he's playing the root note twice.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And we're finishing that off with a very classic little
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Clapton lick...
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's a real, proper Clapton ending.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Mostly minor pentatonic of course, but we're adding
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in the little...
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,bit of major there.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Forming just an A-triad.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Okay, let's have a look at that whole first section,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the whole first twelve bars. Here we go...
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Okay and then after that, he kind of jumps up
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the neck a little bit.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So, he's got quite a leap on and he's jumping up to
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I think it's here, right? So, the thirteenth fret of the second string.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,To the fourteenth fret of the third string.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He could be going...
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Or...
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So, I'm not one hundred percent convinced it's up here.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's just to me, my gut-instinct, says it's this part of the neck. So...
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Thirteenth fret with a curl.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Fourteenth fret, then...
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So, thirteenth fret curl.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Fifteen.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Twelve.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Curl.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Fourteenth fret twice.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Then to the thirteenth fret.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So...
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Very nice little lick again, nice.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Using the A minor pentatonic scale. That one...
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Now he gets into using this, very very, again very Clapton-esque kind of..
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Now again, I'm not one hundred percent sure
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,what fingers he might use for that.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I think he uses his first and second finger quite a lot
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,for this riff from videos and stuff I've watched.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And then, 'cause he's using first and second finger,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,when the third comes down, to get that little slide
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,back to the fifth fret, it's a real kind of a strong slide...
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So...
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Sliding up to the ninth fret from the seventh fret.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Eight, nine. Eight, nine. And then third finger
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,is going to overtake it and slide down to the seventh fret.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Fifth fret.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Then we've got the same.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But with a hammer-on from eight to ten.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Then eighth fret with a curl.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Then we're right up the dusty end again.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So we're holding the twelfth fret, and bending the fifteenth.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Sometimes I'm convinced that it's just a single bend.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Other times I swear I can hear the two notes together.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So, you have a listen and decide which one.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I think it's the two notes together, I think, on...
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,More of that minor pentatonic.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Then...
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Really nice sort of slow release from the fifteenth fret.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And then we've got, our little Clapton-esque, little run
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,with the first and second fingers again.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But with a slightly different ending this time...
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Also I think this time he goes...
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He's kind of separating the notes. So, I think
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,he's going seven slide nine, eight, nine, eight, eight.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I think.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And here...
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,A nice little slide up there to follow the chord changes.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Then we've got another nice bit.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,A little, short slide up to the eleventh fret.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Ten.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Then eleventh fret again.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This is now, for kind of a D. The chord has moved to D.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So, he's playing off of this D-7.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Arpeggio.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And then we're back to the root.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Now this one, here we're back to A major pentatonic.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This note here is B bending to C sharp.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Which is incidentally the same as that one at the beginning...
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Is the B note bending to a C sharp.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,C sharp being the major third.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That's of course saying "Hey, we're back on the A."
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So just to clarify this a little bit more,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the lick before...
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This is a D lick. Right? D-7 arpeggio.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And we're using those notes from the D triad.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Then to say "Hey we're back in A." He's going...
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Bending the B to the C sharp. Which is
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,saying "Hey, we're back on our A chord here at this point."
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So, it's important to see that's kind of how those licks
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,are working. You know? He's following the chord changes.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Now after that, he's got a little run-down there with his finger.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And he finishes with a little...
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Starting with the open D.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Hammering second finger on.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Open G.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Hammer-on and flick-off at the second fret.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Second fret, flick off on the D string.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Third finger, third fret.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And we're back into the riff.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Okay that whole second part of the solo...
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I really hope you've enjoyed checking out Crossroads.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And I hope I didn't go too fast, I'm a little bit worried that
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I kind of skipped over bits too fast. But I think
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,if I go through every single note and every finger
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and every fret that it should be on, it's going to make
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,it a really long and tedious lesson for both of us.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So, I'm hoping that that was kind of a good tempo
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,for you. Please let me know in the comments and I'll
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,try to fix it for future videos. It's a really important
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,thing to understand what was going on as well, so
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,if there are bits where I didn't explain whether it was
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,a major pentatonic or a minor pentatonic, have a
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,think about it. See if you can look at the notes that
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I'm playing and go
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"Okay, does that fit with the major pentatonic shape?
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Or does that fit with the minor pentatonic shape?
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Okay, what chord is that being played over?"
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Because I didn't get into doing that too much. I think
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that's a really important thing for you to do. It would
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,be difficult for me to do it as well actually, verbally.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,By far the easiest thing is to kind of write it out and
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,then put your bar lines in.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,If you can put rhythms in that's a great, great skill.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Can't emphasise what a useful skill it is, to be able
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to read and write rhythms. If you struggle with that
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I've got a book on that [wink]. 'Understanding Rhythmic Notation'. Hint, hint.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You can go and buy that from the website.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But, that will definitely help you when you're kind of
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,writing a transcription of something. You know?
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,To write down the tab and then to be able to write
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the rhythms above it. It will help you sort out where
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,your bar-lines are, so you know where the
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,chord changes are. It will help you slow it down as well.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So that's a really good little tip for you. Is making
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,sure that you write the rhythms down. I do it with all
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of my tabs, when I'm tabbing out a tune,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,or transcribing it, I write down the tab first. And then
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I make sure I write the rhythm as well, because that
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,means that I can learn a lot quicker, you know?
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And I'm sure that'd be helpful for you guys too.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So yeah, do a little bit of your 'harmonic analysis'
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and make sure that you know where the notes are
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,from, where they're major pentatonic or minor pentatonic,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,or something completely different. Which they're not
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in this tune mostly. And make sure you listen
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to it a lot. Make sure you get yourself a half-speed
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,kind of player. That's a really, really, really important
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,thing when you're learning lead guitar stuff.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You used to be able to play along with the original
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,solo at like fifty percent or seventy percent or
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,whatever you could handle. Because it kind of helps
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,you get the feel right 'cause you're playing along
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,with them and you know, I really think that's an
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,important kind of thing. And lastly the other really
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,important thing of course, is to make sure you learn
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,them as licks. So learning the whole solo is great
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and a really good thing to do. But probably the most
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,valuable thing you could do, is break it down into
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,little licks and then you can actually use them in your
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,own improvisations. And I think that's kind of the
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,point of learning other people's solos.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,For me at least, you know, I've taken that solo,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,learned it, stolen all of the licks that I really, really like
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and I try to use them in my own playing and I'd
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,recommend you do the same thing.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,'Cause that's what it's all about!
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Have fun with that and I'll see you for another
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,lick solo song thing lesson stuff, sometime very soon.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Take care of yourselves, bye.