what's going on guys and today's lesson
I'm gonna teach how to play this cool
chord melody I came up with goes a
little something like this
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all right
part one go like this so what am I doing
here
first of all we're in the key of c-sharp
minor and this whole first part is gonna
revolve around the C sharp minor seven
chord shape if you guys aren't familiar
with the C sharp minor 7 we're gonna
take our first finger and bar the fourth
fret starting on the a string and then
my ring finger is gonna be on the sixth
fret on the d and my middle finger is
gonna take the five on the b string
that's our C sharp minor seven beautiful
chord beautiful shape now what I'm gonna
be doing here
I'm going to first of all take off my
middle finger so we get this kind of
like a suspended seven chord C sharp
suspend seven or you can think of it as
a c-sharp minor nine if you want and I'm
gonna start by hitting the a string with
my pick and then I'm gonna take my
middle finger and I'm gonna snap the B
and the g string at the same time that's
gonna give me the two fours right here
and then I'm gonna hammer on with my
middle finger on to the B string fifth
fret that's gonna give me this just like
that okay and that's how I get that snap
with my middle finger in there gives it
a cool effect I'm here I'm gonna go back
to the a string I'm gonna pick that note
and with my middle finger again I'm
gonna place my pinky this time on the
seventh fret of the E and then I'm gonna
snap that last C string it's not quite
finger picking I'm using my pick we're
also gonna use my middle finger I guess
you can call it hybrid picking okay now
this note that we're adding here on the
seventh fret it's basically just the
octave of the same note that we have
here are the B on the fourth fret of the
g string I'm just adding it an octave
higher it gives me a really nice melody
on top of that progression alright part
two very simple goes like this all the
time all I'm doing here is I'm taking
that c-sharp minor 7 shape that we had
at the beginning and I'm gonna move it
up the fret boards to a different
version there from voicing right here on
the 9th fret now this one is very simple
all it is is taking your 1st finger and
placing it across the last four strings
on the 9th fret giving you a c-sharp
minor 7 and if you add the 11th fret on
the high E string you get a c-sharp
minor 9 chord so what i'm doing here is
in the shape I'm gonna hit the the D
string with my pick and then I'm gonna
let go of the 11th fret with my third
finger and then with my middle finger
here I'm gonna snap the last two strings
and then I'm gonna hammer down onto the
11 so I get this out
okay I'm gonna add my pinkie on the
twelfth fret of the b-string
all I'm doing here is I'm hitting the
octave on the D string so these two
strings these two notes are gonna be
exactly the same
okay so it doesn't change the court at
all we're still playing a c-sharp minor
nine here now if I put that with the
first part part one part two together
you get this now it's important to get
those mutes in there as well to give it
a nice sense of rhythm
all right part three we've got this cool
swung melody all I'm doing here
I'm in the key of C sharp right so C
sharp on that high E string you're gonna
start on the ninth fret and I'm just
playing around my pentatonic shape so my
pentatonic shape goes like this
hit on the g string I have my blues note
on the twelfth fret so I have nine
eleven and twelve so I'm gonna do is I'm
gonna start on the tenth fret I'm gonna
slide in and out for that blues note all
with one pick slide in slide out and I'm
just gonna pick around that in this
scale you want to swing that melody as
well you don't want it straight like
this I'll give it a nice swing
all right let's play part 1 part 2 and
part 3 together
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all right part 4 is very similar to part
2 goes with this all I'm doing here is
I'm taking that minor 9 shape that we
had before but I'm gonna move it up to
the 14th fret giving me an f-sharp minor
9 I'm just gonna do exactly the same
thing that we did before I'm buying my
first finger across the last four
strings and I'm gonna hammer on to 16th
fret of the last string with my third
finger this time though I'm gonna
actually pick all the strengths break
them all down and then hammer down let
go and pick the strings okay let's put
part 1 part 2 part 3 and 5 4 together
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all right part five it's gonna be a
series of diminished chords moving down
in minor thirds across the neck okay now
my shape here it's very simple it's
gonna be just like a zigzag type of
shape starting on the thirteenth fret
with my first finger it's gonna be
thirteen fourteen thirteen fourteen now
every time you have a diminished chord
or diminished lick I'm gonna shape
anything diminish you can move that down
or up and minor thirds and I'll still
have the same harmonic qualities so
that's all I'm doing here is I'm taking
this diminished shape and I'm just
moving moving it down my minor thirds so
that's just gonna be three frets away
I'm just taking that shape and moving
that down by minor thirds and that's
just gonna be three frets away from each
other okay so have that on 13th fret the
tenth fret seventh fret and the fourth
thing in between all those I'm gonna
have mutes and all I'm gonna do that
isn't going to take that shape lift up
my fingers but rest them on the strings
that's gonna give me a nice mute to pick
with my right head one more time oops
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let's put part 1 part 2 part 3 part 4
and part 5 all together
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part six all I'm doing here isn't
playing around the C sharp harmonic
minor scale and the reason I moved here
to a harmonic minor scale is cuz I want
to get this note in there the natural C
note because the last chord in the slick
is a G sharp flat 13 chord and I want to
emphasize that note right there
so the look that I have you're gonna
outline that for me we're gonna do a
little hammer on pull off on the fourth
and fifth fret on the last string from
there I'm going to outline a c-sharp
minor triad okay so I have always one
pick hammer-on pull-off
and a little C sharp minor triad I'm
going to repeat the same thing on the
next stream on the B but I'm gonna
outline a G sharp major triad okay so I
have
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when you play that in rhythm it's gonna
sound like this
and we're just gonna hit my root key
sharp I'm gonna play a G sharp flat 13
coin give it a little bit of vibrato so
all together part 1 part 2 part 3 part 4
all the way up to part 6 goes like this
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