Chords for Freddie King | Going Down Intro Solo Guitar Lesson

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_ _ _ _ _ Welcome to my lesson on the intro solo to Going Down by Freddie King.
This is actually [Ab] requested by someone on YouTube.
I don't have time to do a ton of these things, but I thought, hey, [N] this one will be quick.
It's only like eight bars.
I'll have no problem kind of cranking through it and turning out a lesson.
And then I listened to it and went, you know, there's some really cool stuff here that maybe
we could talk about a little bit more in depth.
So take a little bit more time with this one.
The biggest thing here is that Freddie King, _ he's in this phase with this album, which
is called Getting Ready, where everything's kind of getting funkier.
Leon Russell and Don Nix are the producers.
He's got some of the members of Booker T and the MGs as the band.
There's some great songs on it.
I'll put a picture of the album cover up here and a link down below.
_ I totally suggest it.
The Freddie King _ career path kind of starts with him playing a lot of the instrumental,
almost like surf blues kind of things that we know from like Hideaway and The Stumble
and San Jose, things like that.
There's a great album of just those instrumentals.
There's a lot of them.
_ _ _ But you know, we know a lot of like his _ later stuff where he's singing some great stuff.
Have You Ever Loved a Woman, _ _ _ more traditional bluesy.
But then towards the end of his career, he really started playing some really funky music
and some really cool stuff.
One of my favorite Freddie King albums, which is long out of print, was called The Burglar,
which you really got to check out.
So _ a big part of this is literally listen to Freddie King.
I think he was only 36 when he passed away, but his career was almost like a band like
The Beatles where you see this definite progression stylistically.
And he plays and sings kind of differently all through there.
It's really cool.
So something to check out.
This lesson, there's going to be a PDF linked below the video.
You can get it for free on my website.
We're also going to have the tab on screen for you to watch.
The backing track that I'm playing over in the beginning of this is actually available on YouTube.
So you can play along with that.
It's real fun to jam over. _
_ The original song, this solo is 4 bars and then I believe the form starts _ after that.
It's a 12 bar form and it's got this really cool 16th note.
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_ _ _ _ It's a big heavy feel, so a lot of rock bands have also played this.
Jeff Beck, Aerosmith, I'm sure there's a Joe Bonamassa version.
There's a lot of versions out there to check out.
It's pretty fun whether you want to play blues over it or more rock and roll stuff
The backing track that I did for it
_ Has a little bit more of my horrible Hammond organ playing than guitar playing
But it's fun
And I might even do a little thing on how I did that backing track because that backing track has
_ Some kind of fun drum things on it as always if you like the video content we have here
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This is actually one of those things someone asked for and it took me a little while to get to it
But here we go you guys send me really good ideas, and I think we'll make some videos that you guys will really enjoy
[A] _ _ _ _ We're gonna take this and divide it up into
Four [N] two-bar phrases is an eight bar solo
It's the beginning of the tune, but what he does here is it makes a lot of sense in terms of how you play it
Structurally, it's got [Em] a really nice form to it
So we're gonna look at that first the other thing that we really want to be aware of is the fact that this song
The feeling you know the time goes one two three four and the subdivision instead going
_ Dun-dun-dun like a shuffle eighth note straight 16th note feel like a funk tune
One e and a two e [Ab] a three e a [Gb] four e and a right so where he actually places his notes on that
16th note subdivision also is pretty important, and that's actually something we're gonna talk about as we get into each of these little bits
_ We're in the key of D, and we're starting really with the [Dm] D minor pentatonic scale
_ _ _ All right what he's doing is he's [F] taking the note on the 13th fret second string, which is the seventh note or the [D] minor seventh
_ and [G] he's bending it up a whole step to the root, which is here the D right here [Gm] or _
_ _ _ _ [D] Like _ that now he actually starts it on beat four of the first measure of this one two three four
one two [F] three
_ _ _ The next lick actually happens
He's if you notice it wasn't that then note and I'm gonna play that same note
With my pinky on the second string on the [Cm] 13th fret
So I can actually do the bend on the 10th fret third string
[F] _ [G] with my first finger
now if you notice
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_ _ [G] _ [C] _ right all of [D] that bending really happens from back here.
You're not pushing the finger so really keep that in mind
That's where the power comes from is here, and you're just really just holding the fingers
[Dm] _ _ [G] _ _ _ The [D] string that way _ so that's the first one.
I'll do it one more time for you one two three four
One two three
_ _ The _ _ second lick here
_ All right, it's just a bunch of bends, and you know and when you listen to the first it just sounds like he's going _ _ _
But really what's happening is this really cool rhythmic thing remember
We were just talking about the fact that we have 16th notes going all the way through this at this tempo
One E and a two E and a three E and a four E and a right this rhythm that he's playing here
It's almost like you've got groups of three 16th notes superimposed over the beat
So it's like one E and a two E and a three E and a four E and a one
All right, it's very syncopated very funky all right, so one E and a two [G] E and a three E and a four E and a [Dm] one
All _ right, that's where what's happening there is you're [Ab] just pushing that that one note
But you're doing it in that that really funky rhythm the second measure of this [D] one two E three or one two E [Bb] and a three E
[N] All right, he actually breaks it up instead of doing that that syncopated thing.
He's on [D] one and then the second beat
So he's not playing that pattern anymore
[Am] _ And he's got that bend and I actually put a little bit more weight on this note than he does
[N] I don't play it exactly like him except for Freddie King, but it's there
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And [B] you're pulling off to the [E] open string there, _ so the third phrase
He's doing what we've been doing which is a whole step bend
But then he also adds a two-step bend which really isn't as crazy as you think it is so he starts off going one two [Am] three _ four
[E] You notice that bends all the way up to this note right.
It's a two-step bend
_ But [N] all the power comes from back here
I'm not curving the fingers
You just have to keep in mind you really want to be specific about the pitches that you [G] play
Whole step bend which gives you the D
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Two _ [E] step bend gives you [Bm] the E
_ [Am] back [D] _ _ to the whole step
[C] He does this hammer on here between the 10th and 13th
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Really quick bend on the 12th fret
[F] And _ [D]
it actually ends on the which would be the seventh bar this D right here
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Right that last phrase there that's kind of the hardest part for me really I don't know why [Abm] but he does this on beat [Fm] 2
So _ [G]
you're playing the 10th fret?
He does really small like a half step [Fm] bend
_ And pull off to this note _
_ [Ab] And you're kind of basically pushing that 12th fret [Abm] up a half step
And then the last few [Gm] notes here [G] hammer on real quick from 10 to 12 [F] and then
_ _ [D] 10 and [C] then 12 to pull off to the
_ 10th fret right there this note here is [D] not in the tablature for some reason my tablature software is not cooperating so _
_ Basically you know it's here.
[G] It's a real quick pull off so that part
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