BLUES GUITAR LESSON - RED HOUSE STYLE - Combining Lead & Rhythm Playing

[Music] hey everybody Howard here with another combining Rhythm and Lead playing okay and for this one I'm laying down a red house type groove of very slow chugging Blues in [Music] B that type of thing and we'll be inserting some lead licks and fills and all sorts of things so first I'll just do the performance and then we'll take you through it lick by lick and riff by riff so here we [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] go [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] a [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] nah [Music] [Applause] so let's get right into it I'm in standard tuning and I'm using a rude Mouse distortion pedal and I'm running that direct into my orange crush rt20 practice amp so I've got a healthy dose of distortion which you can hear right but not over the top it's not metal or anything like that so let's get right into the first phrase we'll break this down phrase by phrase so the first lick starts on the third beat one [Music] two and I would consider that the very first phrase okay so you can see the tab on the screen but let me lay that down for you nice and slow [Music] so after we've played that Boogie [Music] pattern we break out into the next phrase which [Music] is so let's talk about that a little bit uh this is combining Rhythm and Lead playing after all and what I did there is after the bends the double stops I land that b note on the ninth fret on the D string and that is the downbeat of the next measure so when you're combining Blues Rhythm and Lead playing or any rhythm and Lead playing for that matter when you cross over the bar like that you want to pick up where you would normally be right so what actually happens there is we play so you notice it's not [Music] it's that's really important to keeping your rhythm playing in the groove while you're still adding lead licks okay so let's put those two phrases [Music] together and that's that okay so then we move [Applause] [Music] to so you can see that the Boogie pattern following the lick is played the exact same way [Music] it's a full pattern for lack of a better term right but the Lick in front of it is so it's a bend and a release and a pull off okay and that's one stroke of the pick for all of those notes and then the rest of them are picked and I think alternate picking is probably the best way to go but whatever works for you is cool as well [Music] so now we [Music] [Applause] [Music] have right so that's a longer phrase it takes up the rest of the B7 chord what would essentially be B7 chord right so let me play that phrase nice and [Music] slow so I'll talk a little bit about what's going on right there uh it's just a lick a pentatonic lick of course and I'm sliding to a double stop 10 on the uh B string 11 on the G string but once I land that double stop I form a B7 chord I bring the D string into it so we have this and then some more double stop action pretty simple just barring across the B and the g [Music] [Applause] strings and I land the flat five right there because I'm walking into the E9 chord and I think that sounds pretty sweet [Music] and we hit the E9 chord okay so what we have so far then [Music] is so we land the E9 chord and I'm separating out the base note the root note from the rest of the chord like so so there's a little bit of muting going on back [Applause] here so what I'm doing right there is I'm taking this part of the chord okay this is a cool way to combine Rhythm and Lead playing play right off of the chord or right into the chord and then you can see [Music] and back right because that makes an E major right there E9 okay so we [Applause] have and on that second one I just ride the bass note a couple of times and then hit the chord twice okay so from that E9 then so far we [Music] have and back okay so that's just a standard kind of Blues you know old blues Chuck Barry Albert King all the good guys right so we [Music] have and that's going to take us back to the B7 chord or what essentially is the B7 so uh that lick slowed down is right down the pentatonic [Music] scale right back to the B Boogie and we [Music] play right and you've probably seen this in some of my other videos or for those of you who have taken my blues rock guitar course uh which I'll put in the uh description box below in case you want to check it out I'm playing right Stony all that that stuff right so that phrase [Music] is and we go right back to the Boogie pattern but that's all we're going to [Music] play and then we walk this line and that's going to take us to the F sharp 7 Shar n chord so let me back up a little bit to that E9 [Music] okay so when we get to the ninth fret there on the a string we are now officially inside the F sharp 7 sharp N9 chord and we're doing what we did before twice on the bass note hit the chord twice and then we're going to play a little phrase that takes us down to the E9 so we're we're going to play once [Music] again and then to the E9 same [Music] idea and I kind of slid into that one for fun but there you go it's it's all cool [Music] [Applause] right you can see a little subtle use of bands and slides that just all gives it a nice flavor if you will and then we are basically into what would be considered the [Music] turnaround so I just played the Boogie pattern on the B then on E of course and then once again that F sharp 7 Sharp nine okay and all I'm doing there is just arpeggiating the [Music] chord okay so once again from that E9 if I'm not being too redundant but just to make sure the pieces all make [Music] [Applause] [Music] sense [Music] and then we are into the next go around of the 12 Bar Blues and we open it up with [Music] this so let's talk about that a little bit it's pretty easy to play just adding some double stops with a hammer [Music] on right so you're holding your finger down on the 12th fret on the B string and hammering from 10 to 11 on that g string right so we [Music] have and you notice all I'm playing on that B chord that power chord is three strokes but right in the groove in the pocket of [Music] [Applause] [Music] it so let's talk about that phrase as well you can see it on the tab but it [Music] is [Music] once again utilizing some double stops right there in the uh pentatonic [Music] shape and then we have a a pretty brisk run all wrapped up inside the blue scale minor pentatonic and [Applause] blues right into the four chord the E down down here this time okay so you can see it on the screen of course but let me play that one nice and slow as well okay and that walks us into the four chord as I just said and what I'm doing there is just taking that Boogie pattern down to an open E position but I'm adding some bends to it just to give it a little bit of flavor so that nice and slow [Music] is and then I take it up to the octave so that's kind of a cool thing to do jump around to the different octaves and instead of playing a straight Boogie you can add those bends sounds pretty sweet so once again from the lick we have okay and then we move to the next phrase now this next phrase is a double stop riff or lick or pattern right and it's based on two inversions of a B7 chord don't have to necessarily get into that right now but just to let you know that that's where they're coming from [Music] okay and it is played like so and I'm sliding into each of those as you can see but not from anywhere in particular just go forward it's wherever you happen to be or from where you are [Music] right but the looser you play it the better [Music] okay now when I went back to the B chord there or when I went to the B Boogie pattern I should say I played exactly what I played before earlier when we walked up to the F Shar 7 sharp [Music] n that part right there okay but this time I'm going down here to the FP similar to what I just did with the E okay just to bring it down an octave and play a boogie pattern and so that goes like [Music] so so let's talk about all of that nice and slow once we hit this FSH chord I'm playing walking down to the four chord again once again nice and [Music] slow and again picking up the Boogie pattern where I left off because that E string is the Down Beat of that four chord so you want to pick up inside that Boogie pattern where you would normally be [Music] okay [Music] so that's all pretty simple right and then we play that ending the turnaround right into the uh B9 chord now you can finger that ending any way you choose right it doesn't really matter that's just the way I choose to play it but you can do it with different fingers whatever suits you whatever works for you and whatever still sounds good right [Applause] [Music] right and of course we just have a C9 and a B9 at the end okay so there you go with combining Rhythm and Lead playing another installment uh another in the collection of videos covering this sort of thing I hope you guys enjoyed it all the best to everyone as always and I will see you guys real soon 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Channel: 24/7 Guitar with Howard Hart

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Length: 21min 32sec (1292 seconds)

Published: Mon Dec 18 2023