Chords for Larry Carlton Inspired Guitar Lesson - Soloing Concepts by Session Master Tim Pierce

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[Bb] Hey, what's up you guys?
Marty Schwartz here from GuitarJams.com. We've got the great professional
legendary session guitar player, Tim Pierce.
Thank you.
Thanks for being here man.
My pleasure.
Always love having you here and I've gotten great feedback with you being here.
So not
only that, you've got your own YouTube stuff.
I do, I'm excited about it.
Really excited.
He's got a link down there, so check out his YouTube channel.
We like to support these
guys that make it all possible.
So thank you.
He's going to give a lesson while you're
here.
You might as well teach something.
Yeah, I got to.
I got to keep going.
So let's zoom in and break it down.
So I was raised on Larry Carlton and Robin Ford and guys like that.
I'm going to show
you a major 6 style lick that reminds me a lot of those guys.
I'll do it in two octaves.
We're in G minor. _ _ _
[F] Break it down really, [Cm] really slowly.
What this lick does is it starts on
the 6th note of the scale.
And if we start here in G minor, [Gm] _ third finger on the third
string, 12th fret, _ G note.
And we walk up the scale.
1, [Bb] 2, [Cm] 3, 4, [Bb] 5, [Cm]
6.
_ [Bb] That's why it's
called a 6th note, because it's the 6th note in the G minor scale.
I'll do it one more time. _ _
_ _ [Cm] _ _ _ _ _
And I'm going to start on that note and do my customary big thump across the strings
that I'm muting. _
_ So my first note of the phrase is the third finger on the high E string,
12th fret.
_ _ And then I'm going to play [Bb] the minor third right below it.
This is really
easy to get to because you just take your second finger on the second string, one fret
lower. _
You've heard that before.
It feels really good.
_ _ And then we take our third finger
again and grab the [Eb] G note.
This is all really close and easy for your fingers.
First note,
_ and drop over to the next string one fret lower.
Second note, and then you [Gm] just take
your third finger and advance it over to the third string for the third note.
I mean, even
that lick is great.
I play it all the time. _ _
[F] Fourth note, we drop down on the G string two frets.
Index finger.
So start over really,
really slowly.
[B] One.
[F] _ _ _
_ _ _ _ [Bb] And then what I do on the next string, I kind of hit with my third
finger, I hit the fourth string on the 12th fret, but I don't stay there very long.
I
do a slide down.
So the minute I hit this note, I hit it [Cm] and I slide down.
_ _ _ _ _ _ [Bb] _
_ _ [Cm] _ _ Now I could
land there, [Bb] _
_ but [E] that's a different phrase.
What I want to do is _ [Cm] slide down.
And what
that is, third finger, [Bb] fourth string, 12th fret.
Just stay there for a second [Cm] and slide
it down and you aim down two frets and you land on that note.
And what this does is it
moves your hand to a new position.
I'm really sneaky about that.
In the context of the phrases
that I make, I'm constantly moving my hand in new positions without really letting on.
[Bb] _ [Cm] All of a sudden my hand's in a new position and I have all these new notes available because
I've slid down in the middle of a [Bb] phrase. _
[Cm] So slide down, _ _ [Bb] go down two frets.
We're going
from the C note to the B flat note.
You don't have to worry about that.
You just want to
know that you're going down two frets. _ _
[G] _ _ _ [Bb] _ And then I'm in this new position, [Gm] so now I can
hit this G note here, just third finger, 10th fret.
[F] Go down two more notes and then
[G] back up.
[Gb] And that's the whole phrase.
[Bb] _ _
_ _ _ [F] _ _ [Gm] _ So it's [Em] all basically G minor [D] pentatonic except for
this one snazzy 6th note that kind of adds all the interest and spice to it.
[Bb] _ _ _
_ _ _ [Gm] _ _ Okay, we're
going to do one more thing.
We're going to play this whole thing an octave lower.
So
the way that [E] works, [Bb] _ _ _ _ _ _ [G] _
[E] it's a whole different position for your hand just because of the
way the guitar works and I don't know exactly why, but it does.
Okay, I'm going to start
it, same notes, an octave lower.
I'm on the second string, fifth fret, E note.
Same as
up here, same note, but it's an octave lower.
_ _ [Bb] And then my next note is here, _ three frets
up [E] on the third string with your index finger.
[Bb] _ [G] My next note is here, the anchor G note.
[Gm] _ _ _ [F] _ Now
you can start to see the pattern in your mind.
It's [E] kind of the same at this point.
_ [F] _ And then
we slide [Bb] down, _ third finger, fifth string, fifth fret.
[C] We do that same slide down.
It's
a bit more of a stretch because the distances are greater because you're lower on the neck. _ _
[F] _ _ [G] _ _ _ [Bb] _ _ [Gm] _
_ _ [C] That's C note. _ _ _
[G] _ _ _ _ _ _ [D] Play them together and it sounds kind of cool. _ _ _ _ _ _ _
[Bb] _ _ [G] _ _ _ _ [Bb] Hey Tim, thanks a lot.
[B] You're welcome.
Always love having you here.
Like I've said many
times and I'm going to keep saying it, and I'm also going to keep telling people to check
out your YouTube stuff, which is in the link down there.
And I can't wait to see what else
you've got for us.
Thanks for all the comments. _ _ _ _