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♪

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Hi, how you doing?
Justin here.

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In this lesson today, we're checking out
a lick I call 'Falling Legato'.

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Not really sure where it got its 
name from,

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but it sounds pretty cool.

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Lots of hammer-ons, lots of flick-offs,

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fairly easy one to get fast,
works great in blues and rock.

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Let's get to a close up and check it out.

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♪

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Okay, this lick is in E,
kind of an E blues thing.

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We're using kind of, I guess,
an E Hybrid scale

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which will be on the thinner string,
15, 14, 12.

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On the 2nd string,
15, 14, 12.

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On the 3rd string,
15, 14, 12.

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And finishing with this root note here
at the 14th fret of the 4th string.

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Pretty easy fingering there, really.

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But we're actually, for the lick itself,

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we're starting here with the 1st finger
on the 12th fret of the 2nd string.

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We're gonna pick that note.

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Hammer-on the 14th fret
with the 2nd finger.

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Hammer-on the 15th fret
with the 3rd finger.

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Then pick the thinner string,
12th fret.

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Then we're going back down,

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so we're gonna pick the note here
with the 15th fret, 3rd finger.

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Flick-off to 14th fret.

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Flick-off to 12th fret.

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Now we're moving over 
onto the 3rd string.

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Again, starting off with the 15th fret.

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Pick.

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Flick to 14.

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Flick to 12.

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Now we go straight back up
without picking.

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Hammer-on the 14.

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Hammer-on the 15.

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Pick the 12th fret.

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Back to the 15th fret.

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Flick.

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Flick.

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And finishing on the root note.

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Now, that's probably a lot to remember.

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You might want to look at
the tab on my website.

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That will probably help you a lot.

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Let me play it nice and slow.

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♪

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Now it's groups of four,

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so make sure you know where 
the beat is, so we've got it here.

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1 e and a

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2 e and a

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3 e and a

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4 e and a 1.

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That's really important, 
and what's interesting...

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is that we have that flicked off note, 
it's the one that falls on beat 3,

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which is a bit unusual, cos normally
we like to pick on the 1, 2, 3 and 4,

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and we do on all of the others,
except for that one.

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The thing to practice is just do it
really slowly and evenly,

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make sure you got your metronome.

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Tick.

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Tick.

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Tick.

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Tick.

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Tick.

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Tick.

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Tick.

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Tick.

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Tick.

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Tick.

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Tick.

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Tick.

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Tick.

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Etc.

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♪

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As with all of these different licks
that I show you, the real key here is

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for you to experiment with the 
seed or the concept of the lick,

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and see how many different
ways you can apply it,

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and make up your own kind of licks.

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Now, in this one, this is kind of a
whole one bar pattern,

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which is quite a long lick really.

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So the first thing you wanna do is,
try and break it down into little chunks.

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A really good one to muck around with
is kind of like the middle of this lick,

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where you've got one note picked
on one string, I'm gonna do it

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on the thinnest two strings here.

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So we'd have the 12th fret on
the thinner string,

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and then pick the 15th fret on
the 2nd string.

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Flick to the 14th.

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Flick to the 12th.

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Hammer the 14th.

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Hammer the 15th.

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And back.

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Now just that little, if you 
like a cycle.

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It's a really nice kind of 
little bit of it,

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and it's really, this lick is kind of
using that idea.

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So, the first trick you might 
wanna do is extract it,

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break the lick into little chunks,

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and see how many of the little chunks
you can reapply in other circumstances.

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The other thing you can do is

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try moving the lick to 
other parts of the neck

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and keeping the pattern of
flick-offs and hammer-ons

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and what strings some notes
are picked on.

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It's kind of complicated to
explain that one,

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but those of you that are up for doing
that will understand what I mean.

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See if you can move the shape of the 
lick to other parts of the neck.

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That's a good trick to try out as well.

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So, uh, have fun with that.

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Uh, hope it gives you some cool,
creative ideas,

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and I'll see you for another lick
or lesson very soon.

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Take care of yourselves,
bye-bye.