Hello All,
I'm new to the CBGs and newly learning how to slide play. I was wondering about the possible value of some of the more experienced player providing instruction, vids or tabs, on some of the more common licks, runs, turnarounds or even some of your more creative inventions. Not to steal but to maybe help get us newbies creative. I know the value of basic theory and I've been learning some or enough to get me in trouble. :) My thought on this was if us early learners where able to get a handle on some of the cool little licks say at the 12th or some of the cool transitions we all see some of you do in the vids it could really help gain confidence for us to have our "AH HA" moments when we don't know what to do or where to go and be able to produce that colorful run or lick that keeps us coming back for more, not that being bit by the CBG bug hasn't already, or may help our playing advance more quickly. Just a thought.
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I would like to second this idea, I'm a total begginer and even half a dozen ideas from them that know how to play would be a great help to get started, nothing too fancy even a basic 3 chord 12 bar stum and slide lesson would be great.
the problem I see Steve, which isn't a discredit to those more advanced players, but they just have that feel from experience when they spit out that quick colorful lick that makes everything more interesting but have a hard time explaining it if they even do explain. I've watched the Shane, Keni, etc.. vids and they're great but alot of instruction vids give you a concept, progressions or such, which is good, but then during that time they're pulling out a quick little lick and saying "then you can go here, and do this".... or something to that extent. OK, what was the "this" you just did is my question. That never gets explained. And I'm sure those things come with experience and practice, I just don't know what to practice to hit those licks is my problem.
example: (0:31 - 0:45) nobody ever explains licks like that.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uYEk-KbhUSY
Cool video! If you can read tab, check this out:
G|----------------0--3--5--7--9--12--15--|
D|----------0--3-------------------------|
G|--0--3--5------------------------------|
That's the "pentatonic minor" and if you add the 6th fret between 5 and 7 you get the "blues scale." So you just play around with those notes and make licks. Stick with those notes over a Blues in G and nothing will sound awful... Your job is to make it sound good.
G|--12--10--0--10--12----12--/15-/15-/15--12--|
D|--------------------------------------------|
G|--------------------------------------------|
If you can't read tab, the lines are just the strings on your guitar if it was flat on your lap, and a number is the fret on that string where you play each note as you read left to right.
awesome! thanks BenBob. i'll play around with this til i'm seeing it in my sleep.
I made an error there: the first line of tab should be 10, not 9.
Jeffery some of the best ole time players started out with basicly little to no instruction completly self taught and this is prolly what has made it so good they did'nt know what you could'nt do so they tried anything don't knock not knowin its part of what makes this style constantly fresh and yes a little help is nice when you can get it and yes yes they prolly can't explain it if you aren't sitting right there
Noted! and fully understand. I've read up on some of the blues history, just because it's so damn interesting, like Patton, RJ, etc.. and know that the music was created by invention, experimentation, "off the cuff" and feeling. I suppose I need to take a lesson from that and follow suit. thanks for your input Luna!