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Originally Posted by Old Fart
Not bad. The guy likes 3 chord progressions and is pretty good at it.
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Yeah, it's just a simple 12-bar blues using the standard I-IV-V progression, B,E, and F#, I believe, the key is probably B but it sounds like it could be Bm7 or maybe B7#9 (that's the Hendrix chord, FYI). You could use either Mixolydian or Dorian modes with it. There's a little major and minor pentatonics in there too. A lot of complex bends as well so he has to be careful about intonation. Bar 6 is pretty chromatic but it's ingeniously constructed, using chord notes as a framework and then filled in with chromatic notes. Very crafty.Then he moves into an arpeggio, maybe Bm9. Govan does a lot of this in his playing. Then I think there was a E major arpeggio and then a run of notes that are all singularly picked. You have to be very, very accurate and consistent to do this at such a high rate of speed. I hear Guthrie often plays up to three consecutive notes on the same string with the same finger, while picking accurately, so it can sound like he's using three different fingers. Toward the end is a great B7 arpeggio that's a bit country-ish. Again the speed is phenomenal.
The man's a wizzard...and funky as hell.
How do I know all this? I'm reading it off a piece of paper. Hah, hah.
By the way, I know I posted Govan before. Sorry, just can't get enough of him.
Jesus plays the blues
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