Chords for How To Play "Going Down" by Freddie King | GuitarSkills.com Lessons

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_ _ _ _ [Bbm] [Ab] Hey guys, this is Sean from Guitarskills.com _ and in today's video what I'm going to show
you is [N] a cool Freddie King riff going down.
Now this is kind of my own adaptation of that riff and the reason I want to show that to
you is to show you some _ essential _ guitar techniques that you need to have down in order to play
_ cool blues guitar riffs because when you look at all the classic riffs that we all have
grown to love and we really enjoy playing on the guitar, there's some similarities _ between
those riffs [A] and two of the things that _ [Ab]
we're going to be looking [Abm] at right now would be
the actual _ articulation techniques [A] and the kind of phrasing that you use [G] when you play
riffs [Ab] like this.
So let's dive right in and check [G] out what I did [Ab] in this particular version [B] of the Freddie
King classic going down.
Alright, so the riff started with just an open [E] E note. _ _
_ _ _ It started like that, just striking the strings, [G] bending down slightly on the G note _ and then
going to the [E] open E.
There's a power chord and then I add these palm mutes happening.
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way you do that [G] is just kind of a karate [C] chop motion [Abm] of your hand which you place right
here on the bridge _ in order to just dampen the strings.
Otherwise it'll sound [E] like this.
So _ _ _ _ _ then I did this instead. _ _
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And then for the actual riff [Ab] part of that, I [N] don't mute the strings, I don't use the
palm muting anymore.
And then I started like this with a hammer on from 5 to 7, hammering [Gm] on immediately on
[E] the fifth string. _ _ _
_ _ [C] Then 5 on the fifth [D] string. _
_ Then I immediately [Ab] slide from 7 into 5 on the [N] sixth [A] string.
_ And [G] then I slightly bend the third fret _ [Ab] _ _ [E] back to open E. _
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_ And of course I keep playing this [D] eighth note rhythm on those [E] notes.
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[A] _ _ _ And then of [E] course we're playing a 12 bar blues as you can see on the screen right now.
Then I need to go to an A5 power [A] chord here.
_ _ And I just play the chord again or even just a single note, _ _ _
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_ [A] _ [G] _ _ [E] _ _ followed [A] by that exact [Ab] same riff.
Then [E] I'm back into E again. _ _ _ _ _
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there you [Ab] go.
That is a fun riff that you can play at a blues jam.
And then you can, you know, if you're playing with a band, they can kick in with the proper groove.
And if there's another guitar player, you can, you know, dive into playing some solos
on top of that riff or even just get the bass player to play that riff.
But it's such a classic, iconic blues riff.
[A] And [Cm] by playing [Gb] it like I've just shown you, you're using [Ab] palm muting versus non-palm muted
notes, using those fast hammer-ons, you're using _ slides, as well as those quarter tone bends.
Now, these are some of the articulation techniques that will help you to play blues _ [N] with the proper phrasing.
Because remember, as people always say, sometimes it's not what you say, but it's how you said
it that makes a difference, [Ab] right?
And also, with the blues and playing the guitar, it's not what you play [E] necessarily, even though
that's important, of course, but it's how you play it.
And the way that you can play with [F] more confidence and conviction on the guitar [G] is using articulation
techniques in the right way, like we've just checked out for this example.
I hope you guys had fun, and I look forward to seeing you [Db] on the next one. _ _ _
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