Chords for Buster B. Jones teaches a hot lick

[A] _ Hi, I'm [G] Buster B.
Jones and welcome to my [Db] video.
What we're going to do here is kind of share some [E] ideas with you [Bb] on guitar licks and _ where
do licks come from.
I'm going to show you how I make them up, [A] _ give you a little tour through my musical mind.
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I think the first thing we need to do though before we get started is get [A] tuned up.
Now you may notice that on my [Bb] guitar here I've got a capo [E] on at the second [Gb] fret.
Well there's a good reason [Bb] for that.
I have a surgically rebuilt left hand, kind of my [Am] robo hand.
_ _ _ _ I tune the guitar down a full [E] step, which is two frets.
[F]
So actually with the capo on I'm in standard [C] tuning.
_ So what we should do now is just tune up together and we'll take it [Bb] from there.
Here's my first string.
[Em] _
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My second string.
[B] _ _ _ _ _
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[G] The third. _ _ _ _ _
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The fourth string.
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The fifth.
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_ _ _ _ _ _ And the sixth string.
[E] _ _ _ _ _ _
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Okay, what I'm going to do is I'm just going to play a series [B] of licks.
I'll [Bbm] probably just improvise my way [Bb] through it. _ _
And then [B] we're going to come back and we're going [A] to take those licks one at a [C] time.
I'm going to show you why I did what I did and how I thought of it.
And it's more important [A] really for you to understand the creating [Bb] a lick because then
you can make your own up and I'll come along [Bbm] someday and steal them from you.
_ [F] So here we go.
I'm just going [C] to play a few licks [Ab] for you.
_ _ _ _ [Am] _ _ _ [G] _
_ [A] _ _ _ [D] _ _ _ _
[C] _ _ _ [A] _ _ _ [G] _ _
[E] _ _ [A] _ _ _ _ _ _
[Bm] _ _ _ _ _ [D] _ _ _
_ _ _ [Am] _ _ [Gbm] _ _ [D] _
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_ [Gbm] _ _ _ _ _ [D] _ _
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[Bb] _ Okay, you may have noticed that I repeated [A] a few things in there but I manipulated them
just a little bit differently. _
_ So what I do when I want to play a lick is I make it up in the first position [Eb] _ using the _
_ basic chord shapes E, D, C, A, or G.
[D] _ I don't use F or B because E and F are the same [E] as far as I'm concerned.
You [F] just move them up.
So you create your [E] licks using the E [B] and A and B are the same.
[A] _ So all my B licks are created in A.
_ _ Now [C] I started that off with a little [A] chromatic run that I like to use.
I [B] actually stole this from Ted Atkins [A] a long time ago.
You can flat pick this lick, alright? _ _ _ _ _
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_ _ Okay, when [B] you finger pick it you get a whole different sound.
[D] You can pop and roll.
[Gbm] By [Bb] tucking a finger under the string _ [Bm] you get [D] that country [A] [Ab] telecaster kind of sound.
[D] _ _
_ _ [B] _ _ [Am] _ _ _ _
_ _ [A] _ _ Can you hear that?
[Bb] _
_ Okay, now what I'm [C] doing is I'm just lightening up with my [Db] left hand and I'm kind of choking
the strings playing a would-be [Bbm] note.
In other words, the note is there, _ _
[D] _ alright, [Ab] but I'm choking it. _ _
[D] _ _ _ [Bb] _ _ So it gives [A] it more dynamics and things like [D] that.
Now [Bb] where do you [Ab] get a lick _ like [Bm] this? _
[G] _ _ _ _ _ _ [Gb] Let [A] me show you where it came from.
I'll [G] _ start it with a G.
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ [Bbm] _
_ _ _ _ [G] _ _ _ _
_ _ [Bb] Okay if you look at your inversions, the first inversion [G] of a G is here.
_ _ And I go up to it _ like [D] that.
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ [Bm]
[Am] If you're an A it would [A] be, _ _ _ _ _ or [D] D, _ _ _ _
_ [B] _ [E] or E. _ _ _ _
_ So in other words what I'm trying to show you here is that when you get a lick, just
because you can play it [Bb] in one spot, don't be satisfied with that.
[G] _ Try [C] to teach yourself to [Bb] play it in all the other positions, the other four [C] shapes, and
then to be able to move the lick [D] around.
[Ab] In other words, when I go [C] up at [B] the end [E] of this lick, _
_ [Gbm] _ _ _ [Ab] _ _ _ _
[D] _ _ _ _ [C] _ _ _ [A] _
_ alright, if you just take the [E] first
part of that, [Bm] _
_ _ _ [A] _ _ _ alright, _ _ [B] [A] by doing this, _ _ _ _ now I can play it [D] in _ _ D, _ _ _ _ _ _
_ [A] _ _ [G] _ _ _ _ [Em] _
_ _ [Bm] _ _ [Bb] _ _ _ _
[G] _ _ [Bm] _ _ _ or [E] E.
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_ _ _ _ _ _ [B] _ _
_ _ _ [E] _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ So you can manipulate these and you can [Bbm] move them around.
If I was [C] playing in the key of C _ and I wanted to use that lick, I would look for that position
_ here. _ _ _ _
And then I could do it. _ _ _ _ _
_ _ [G] _ _ _ _ _ _
_ [Db] _ _ _ [C] _ _ _ _
_ Okay?
_ So let's just take this [Bb] lick, just [G] that little one there, split [Bb] the screen, [Bbm] watch my fingers
very close because I'm going [Bb] to show you how to do [E] it in E, _ in [Bb] D, [A] and in E. _
_ _ _ [E] _ _ _ _ [A] _
_ _ [B] _ _ [E] _ [G] _ _ _
_ [A] _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ One more time.
[E] _ _ [Gbm] _
_ _ [E] _ _ _ [D] _ [Bm] _ _
_ [A] _ [Ab] _ _ _ [A] _ _ _
_ Alright, let's try it in [D] D. _ _ _
_ _ [G] _ _ [A] _ _ _ [Em] _
_ [Bm] _ _ _ [Bb] _ _ [D] _ _
_ _ _ One more time. _ _
[Bm] _ _ _ _ [Em] _ _ _ _
[Bm] _ _ _ _ [D] _ _ _ _
_ _ And let's [E] try it in E. _
_ [B] _ _ [Dbm] _ _ _ [Bm] _ _
_ [Gbm] _ _ _ [E] _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ One more time.
[B] _ _ [Gb] _ _ _ _ _
[Gbm] _ _ _ _ _ [E] _ _ _
Oops, [B] sorry. _ _ _ _ _
_ [Gbm] _ _ _ _ _ [Bm] _ _
_ _ [E] _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ Okay, I think from that little example you can see that I'm playing my first position
licks, [B] I'm merely [Gb] inverting them _ to meet the key [B] that I'm playing in.
So that's where I create most of my licks.
_ [Bb] For instance, that first lick that [Am] I played, _
_ _ [A] _ _ _ _ that _ can be flat picked as [Am] well. _ _ _
[A] _ _ _ But it's not an A lick.
If [Bb] you look at the chord I'm playing at, that's merely part of [A] a G shape. _ _ _ _
So if you [G] moved it down to where I actually learned it, _ _ _ [E] _ _ _ [G] excuse me, _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ or you can flat pick
it here as well. _ _
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Slow it down.
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