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Summary: How to play the second lick of phrase five for the guitar solo on Gillian Welch's "I Want to Sing That Rock and Roll"; get professional tips and instruction on playing guitar for pop songs in this free music lesson video.
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Brian Hudson Brian Hudson is a professional songwriter in Austin, TX. He has toured and recorded with the Hudson's, a local folk band in Austin, for the past 6 years. Bria... read more
We're going to finish up work on the fifth phrase of David Rawlings guitar solo from Gillian Welch's I Want to Sing that Rock & Roll, so the phrase sounds like this. (playing guitar) The first lick of that of phrase which we already did sounded like this (playing) now the second lick which I think is the real nugget, the real Jim from the solo is this pentatonic run. (playing) Now this is a G sharp or an A flat minor pentatonic in an usually position instead of playing this (playing) he's playing this. (playing) So the lick is not exactly the direct run down the pentatonic but it's a nice pentatonic oriented lick. So it's (playing) one more time slowly, fourth fret ring finger open open.