Chords for Ted Greene Blues Guitar Lesson - Part 1

_ _ _ [D] _ _ _ _ _
_ [Dm] _ [G] _ _ _ _ _ [Bb] _
_ [D] _ _ _ [A] _ _ _ _
_ [D] _ _ _ [Gb] _ _ [Bb] Yeah, that's a homonym.
D flat [D] dominant 9. _ _ _
_ _ _ [Bb] Just like this guy going right there.
[Gm] _
_ _ _ _ [D] _ _ _ [Bb]
So, [D] stronger root progression.
One thing you want to do is avoid the 1, 6, 2, 5 symbol on this tune too much.
If you're not careful, you can say, _ _ _ [Gm] _ _
_ [D] _ _ _ [C] _ _ _ [Bb] _
[F] _ _ _ [Gb] it's like getting three of those so far.
The [D] 1, 6, 2, 5, that's just too many.
So, one of the ways [Bb] you can get away from that.
And [D] also, it gives a schematic leading into a dominant 2 chord.
[Gm] Instead of minor 7th out [Dm] of 2, go to a dominant 2 [B] dominant.
This is after the opening. _
You know what it is?
A half-time [Dm] bass or a cut-time, any of those terms?
Cut [D]-time is 2, 4, 2.
Yeah, it's actually 2, 2.
I always said 2, 4, 2.
It means the half-note gets an 8 and there are two of them in the bar.
So, when you hear guys play, [Gb] _ [G] this will be kind of a [C] stiff version of the tune.
[D] Same tempo we were just playing.
Right, [G] 1, 2, 3.
What they do is they have little push notes.
_ _ [D] _ _ _ [G] _
_ [C] _ _ [B] You'll hear them adding those, put the [D]
same as the [Bb] cowbells do this tune.
So, you can start the [D] song and hear it this way instead of right away feeling that you must rock.
[Gm] _ [D] Another thing I do sometimes is [E] I just try to play a scale line.
_ [D] Just head somewhere.
Just go in a direction.
[N] And sometimes in that I'll add a thematic.
I just give [A] myself a moment to go.
_ _ _ [D] _ [N] And also, ghost notes are always available.
[D] Ghost notes simply_
Do you have to play this note?
That little thing before it?
You heard that one?
I use either this [Gb] finger or this finger. _
[Bb] The other way to get ghost is to use your left hand and [D] pull the strings.
_ _ [A] _ _
_ [Ab] _ _ _ [Bm] _ You can [D] overdo it.
[Dm] Like every now and then if you can kind of slow it down.
_ _ [E] _
_ [D] That's the left hand.
[E] Right. _ _ _
_ [A] _ _ _ [D] _ _ _ [Bb]
[Bm] Also playing on the side a [C] little bit.
It's that [D] whistle.
I don't know why I like [C] that.
It reminds me of stand-up bass [Dm] more or something instead of going_
[Bm] _ [D] It's just guitar.
_ Little things.
_ _ _ [F] _ _
_ [Ab] _ _ [A] _ _ _ _ [Bb] _
_ [E] _ _ _ _ _ _ [Bb] _
_ [Ab] _ [E] _ _ [Bb] _ _ _ [G] _
_ [E] _ _ _ [Dm] _ _ [G] _ _
_ [C] _ _ _ [A] _ _ The timing is [A] _ _ [Dm] _ _ _ _ [E] _
_ [Gm] _ _ [N] sometimes more straight.
Less pleasant way to play here when I make those rhythms.
[D] I'm just repeating what I said before.
Drive that point home a bit about the variance in rhythm.
Being really, really necessary.
If I just play [G] this rhythm, it's [Gm] the same on every chord note.
[E] It's not like it's bad.
It's [D] just not that good either.
_ _ _ [F] _ _ _
You don't have to repeat it in the summer.
[D] It gets into something else.
It almost turns into a polka, a rhythm and blues [Gb] polka or something, which is okay.
[D] But something else.
Not that jazz-free, pompous sound.
[N] The guy's rhythm is totally free and his left hand just jabs out little fragments of chords. _ _ _