Blues Chord Embellishments Part 3

Combining elements of previous lessons for a variety of techniques that will keep your blues comping interesting. Part 3 of 3.

Danny Grady: Now the rule is that if you can do it on the one, then you can do it on the four chord, and you can do it on the five chord, one of the great things about the Blues if you figure it out for one position, feel free to move it all the way around. So previously we have learned how to do one, four, five, five going, up a string but since we are going to want to keep the integrity of the shape, we are going to want to do this so that our route has, it's on the sixth string. So the easiest way to find the fourth from your route is to go up five frets with two and a half steps. So what does that five frets, the third fret which leaves us to the eighth fret. And then we can do the same kind of movements, hammering on that third, adding the seventh, adding the major six and then adding the fourth and the sixth. Adding the fourth, the sixth and the ninth. And then from the fourth it is always a whole step or two frets up to find the fifth. So again I am hammering on my second finger onto the third fret here. I am adding my pinky up in this case to the thirteenth fret of the second string to do that seventh and the seventh that is high up which is always a fret up from where your third finger is at. Sliding the pinky back to get that six and then barring my third finger here on the twelfth fret, fourth, third, second and first to get the octave, the fourth, the major six and the ninth. Scotty Moore: Hi! I am Scotty Moore. She came back with handing a slip of paper and I looked at it and I said, "Elvis Presley what kind of damn name is that?" So let's start with an A major chord for the first, actually the first four bars are really A and the A major chord in the fifth position my first finger is barred across the top two strings, get that.