Chords for 3 Soulful Gospel Inspired Chord Licks

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_ _ _ [F#] Hi everyone, this is Rick at Tasty Guitar.
_ Well, if there was ever any doubt about the roots of soul and R&B music,
one just needs to look to the Stax Museum of American Soul Music in [F] Memphis, Tennessee _
and see the real turn-of-the-century Mississippi Delta Church reassembled inside the building.
It's quite a sight. _
Today I'm going to show you three fairly simple gospel _ _ -inspired chordal licks.
Now, these will sound great over really common chord progressions
and will take your rhythm playing to a new level of soulfulness.
So let's jump right in. _ _
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[D] _ _ _ _ _ [Gm] _ _ [G] _
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[G] _ _ _ [D] _ _ Okay, now this first lick works really great in replacing just a regular [F#] kind of dominant chord groove.
Like say if you were just grooving on a 7 chord _ _
_ [G] _ _ or a 9 chord or something like that.
This would work really well replacing that
or _ also to be a second part if somebody else is playing [A#] that kind of groove
and you want to do something different.
_ [F#m] Now, this is basically starting on kind of a G minor shape up here.
_ [Gm] _ _ I'm sliding into this _ [F#m] [Gm] and _ _ _ I'm giving it a little bit of a vibrato.
_ _ _ _ This is to kind of emulate the sound of a vibrato on an organ kind of. _ _ _ _ _ _
Just give it a little shake.
_ _ _ [Am] _
I'm then going to grab these notes right down here, _ _ barring my first finger.
_ [Gm] _
_ [Am] _ _ Back [Gm] here. _ _
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Ending on just that G [D] _
triad right there.
_ [Gm] _ _ _ _ _
[Am] _ [G] _ _ _ _ [F#m] _ [Gm] _ _
_ _ _ [G] _ _ _ _ [D] _
_ _ _ [Gm] _ _ [Am] _ [G] _ _
_ _ _ Okay, now [A] here that is [G] again in time.
We are starting on [D] the and of 3.
_ [G] _ _ _ 1, [D] 2, _ 3.
_ _ _ [G] _ [D] _ _
_ [Gm] _ _ _ _ _ _ [D] _
_ [Gm] _ _ _ _ _ _ _
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[A] _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
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[Bm] _ [F#m] _ _ _ _ [A] _ _ _
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[Em] _ [F#m] _ _ [A] _ _ _ _ _
_ [F#m] _ _ [B] _ _ _ _
This next lick is also based off of just a dominant [A] chord here.
This time we're playing over A7.
[Em] _ _ _ _ And we're starting on this [G] _ A9 shape right [A] down [Em] here.
We got [D#] the 9, the [E] B note, the 5 and the flat [Em] 7.
_ _ [A] _ We're going to hit that really short [Em] and cut it off. _ _ _
We're starting on the 2nd beat.
_ _ 1.
_ _ _ _ We're then going to go up to this A6 shape here.
Hitting [C#]
the 3rd, _ the 6th, the F sharp note and the root.
_ [F#m] _ _ _ [D] We're going to hit that and cut it off really quickly also.
So far what we [Em] have is this.
1, [F#m] 2, 3.
_ _ [G] _ _ [Em] _ _
[F#m] _ _ _ _ _ We're then going to go up to this [G] G shape. _ _ _
_ Slide into that. _ _ _
_ _ _ [F#m] _ _ [G] _ _ _
_ _ [Em] _ 1.
[F#m] And _ _
[G] _ _ then we just go back where we [F#m] started.
_ _ [Em] _ _ Reverse. _
_ [F#m] _ _ _ _ [Em] _ _ _
We're cutting these notes off.
[F#m] _ _ _
[Em] _ _ _ _ _ _ _ [F#m] _
_ _ _ [Em] _ _ [A] _ _
Okay, so [D#] here it is again in time.
[A] Remember we're [E] starting the lick on the 2nd beat.
[Am] _ _ [G]
1.
[F#m] _ _ _ _ [A] _ _
[Bm] 1.
[F#] _ _ [Em] _ _ [A] _ _
1.
[F#m] _ _ [Em] _ _ [A] _ _ [G]
1.
[Em] 1.
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[A] _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ [Bm] _ _ [A] _ _ [G#] _
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[Bm] _ _ [A] _ _ _ [E] _ _ _
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[A] _ _ [E] _ _ _ _ _ _
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_ _ _ This last lick works really well [Em] over a 2-5 progression.
I played it [Bm] in the key of A, so I did it over a B minor.
_ _ [E] To an E dominant [A] chord.
_ To [F#] the 1, the A there.
[G] Okay, I'm [E] starting on this [G] B minor [A#m] shape.
[Bm] _ _ _ Up here at the 10th fret. _ _ _
And I'm going to hit it really short and cut it off. _
_ _ I'm going to [A] go to this A shape.
_ _ _ [Bm] _ _ _ _ _
[Bm] The B minor, top of the B minor chord right there. _ _ _ _ _ _
So this first part is actually a triplet. 1. _ _ _ _ _ _
[A] _ [Bm] _ _ _ [F] I'm going to continue on down to hit that top of an A chord right there.
_ [Bm] _ _ [A] _ _ _ _ [A] _
_ _ _ _ Okay, I'm going to then slide back to this A [C#] shape up here at the 9th [A] fret.
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[A] _ [Bm] _ _ [A] _ _ [G#] _ [A] _ _
And then [Bm] end _ at the 7th fret there, but then we're doing the change. _ _
So that's actually the top half of an E9 chord. _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ What we have is this. _
[A] _ _ _ _ _ [Bm] _ _ _
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[A] _ _ _ [Bm] _ _ [A] Now you can also put a couple different types of endings on this. _
Instead of _ [Bm] _ _ sliding up to that A chord at the end. _ _ _ _
We can do [D#] this little chromatic move here.
[Bm] _
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[Bm] _ _ _ _ _ _ That's a nice sound. _ _ _ _ _ _
[A] _ _ _ _ [Bm] _ _ _ _
_ _ [A] _ _ _ [Bm] _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ [F#] _ [A] _ _
[Bm] _ _ _ _ So all those different endings are in the tab as well. _ _ _
Okay, so here's that one in [E] time again.
I'll [F#] also do it [A] with those alternative endings. _ _ _ _
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[Bm] _ _ _ Alright guys, thank you so much for stopping by today.
And checking out these [G#] three gospel inspired chordal licks.
I really hope you enjoyed it.
And it can [D#] get some great use out of them.
Putting into these common chord progressions and giving your rhythm playing some real soul. _
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This has been Rick.
Thank you very much. _ _ _ _ _ _
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