Chords for Tommy Emmanuel Guitar Lesson - Classic Fingerstyle Licks Demo

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_ _ Okay, I want to show you a few licks that hopefully will _ help you to fill your bag of licks
because every guitar player worth their salt has a bag of licks that we can go to and draw one out and say
Ooh, look at this one!
_ And these licks are all based on things that I stole from Chet Atkins
and really, when Chet heard me play the first time, he said, that's petty theft
and he knew it and so did I.
But this is how these kind of things get handed on, this is how music gets handed on and grows and changes.
I steal it from him, you steal it from me, and then someone hears you play it and they steal it from you
and that's how it goes [C] around.
So, _ _ there are licks in every key of course and _ _ depending on how complicated you want them, you can find them.
_ The ones I want to show you are not necessarily easy, but the first one is a [N] lick that Chet used a lot,
especially when he was younger, because it was really effective and it was kind of like a little trademark for [C] him.
It was in the key of C and say if he was finishing [A] a song, [D] _ _ [Dm] that [C] _ _ _ _
_ was a little lick to finish the song.
Now, a couple of things I want to [G#] point out [C] about this lick.
So, it's in the key of C, that's my anchor point, that note there.
[Gm] So, [Am] _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ [G] _ [C] _ [A#] _ [Am] _ _ _
_ _ _ [C] _ [D] what I'm doing is [Am] _
[A#] _ [Am] _ [C] _ _ _ I'm pulling [G#] off with these [A] two fingers while anchoring [C] down _ [Am] with that first finger.
[A#] So, _ _
[F] _ [E] _ [C] _ [G] _ _ [C] _ _ [F] _
_ [C] _ _ [Am] _ _ [G] _ [C] _ _
[Dm] _ _ [C] _ [G] _ [C] _ _ [Gm] _ _
_ _ _ [C] _ _ _ sometimes _ [Am] I vary it and I go, _ _ _
_ [C] _ you know, it's the same lick but I've just extended little bits [Am] of it.
You [G] _ [C] _
_ [Am] _ _ _ [Gm] _ _ _ _
[Am] _ [C] _ see what I mean?
See what I've done?
And the [A#] whole time this is anchored down, so it's all nice and [C] clear there.
[A#] So, _ [C] _ [G] _ [C] _ _ that's lick number one.
Lick number two is this one here.
_ _ [G] _ _ _ _ _
Now, this is in G _ [A#] and _ [C] Chet [F#] _ [C#] _ _ [G] _ _ _
_ _ [D] used that a lot and I believe _ it's something he got from Jerry Reid.
It's [A#] almost like a [Em] banjo sound.
_ [G] _ [D#] So, I'll play it slowly for you.
My right hand is, [E] _ _
_ [F#] [A#m] I'm playing it [G] _ with my thumb pick and two fingers.
_ _ _ [N] And you can feel it in various ways.
You can feel it one, two, [A] three, [G#] four [G] or _ _ _ _ _ _ [G#] you can feel it in triplets.
_ One, two and three and four and [C#] [G] you _ [E] _ [Em] _ [G] _ _
see that?
[F] So, [F#] _ [G] _ _ with _ that lick, [G#] it's important that all the notes are pretty much at the same volume.
So, it has that peeling off [A#] sound.
[E] _ _ [G] _ _ And you'll see that there's not a lot of movement [E] going on with my left hand.
That's how I get the [A#] clarity.
I've already practiced it enough, so I don't have to go exaggerating the whole [E] thing.
[G] I'm _ _ _ [E] _ _ [G] _ _ _
[E] _ [F#] _ [C#] _ [G] _ _ going to play it really [C] slowly for you now.
Are you ready?
[A#] _ [E] _ _ [C] _ [F#] _ [C#] _
_ _ [G] _ _ _ _ One more time.
[Dm] _ [E] _ _ [F#] _ _ [C#] _ _ [G] _
_ _ _ _ _ Now, _ the [G#] other lick that I wanted to play for you is the one that I use on [F#] _ the end of Walsing Matilda.
And this is a lick [Gm] using the technique that I borrowed from Chet Atkins and Jerry Reid.
And I made this lick up myself, [Am] which is _ _
_ _ _ [D] _ [C#] _ [C] _ _
finishing in C, right?
So, the lick goes like [B] this.
[D] _ _
[Am] _ _ [Em] _ _ [Am] _ _ [Em] _ [C#] _
[C] _ So, I'll play it in tempo.
[Am] _ _ _ _
[D] _ [C#] _ _ [C] _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ [Em] _ _ _ [Am] _ _
_ [D] _ [C#] _ _ [C] _ _ There's a lot going on [F#] in this [A#m] little lick and it takes a while to [G#m] get used to it.
I'll tell you why, because you've got [C] _ that going on. _ _
_ [A] _ [Am] _ _ [Em] _ _ _ _
[B] _ [Am] _ _ _ [Em] _ [D] _ _ [C#] _
_ [C] _ _ _ [A#] So, if you want to hear it in context, it sounds like this.
_ Once we _
[C] _ talk_
_ _ _ [E] _ [Am] _
_ [F] _ [F#] _ [G] _ [C] _ [Em] _ _ _
[D] _ [C] _ _ _ _ That's [Fm] _
_ [A] _ _ [D] _ [C] _ _ [F] _ [B] _
[C] _ _ _ _ [D] _ [C#] _ [C] _ _
_ how the [B] lick [Am] works. _ _ _
_ [C#] _ _ [C] _ _ _ _ _
_ _ [D] _ [C#] _ [C] _ _ _ _
_ _ So, that's three licks.
Good luck. _