Playing Chorus 1, Lick 6 on 'Natural D Blues'

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KIVETT BEDNAR: To play the sixth lick in this Wes Montgomery solo, start by placing your forefinger on the 4th fret of the 4th string and your lick should sound like this [PLAYS LICK]. Once again [PLAYS LICK]. Okay, so what's happening here? We're just coming from the interpolated 2 of the V of IV. I mean this lick takes place over the I chord, I7, but it's actually functioning as the V of IV 'cause we're just about to move to a G7 which is the IV chord. So, you're going to start with your forefinger on the 4th fret of the 4th string, then go up a minor 3rd on the same string with your pinkie to the 7th fret of the 4th of the string. And then, go up another minor 3rd with your forefinger to the 5th fret of the 3rd string, walk up a half step to the 7th fret of the 3rd string, another--or excuse me, a whole step to the 7th fret of the 3rd string, and then another half step to the 8th fret of the 3rd string. And then once you're up on the 8th fret of the 3rd string, walk up, walk up the strings on the 8th fret past the 2nd to the 1st, and then slide your pinkie up a whole step to the 10th fret of the 1st string, and then fall back on the 6th fret with your forefinger and hammer on, hammer on up to the 7th fret of the 1st string. To string the lick together in slow motion [PLAYS LICK IN SLOW MOTION]. So basically, what we're doing here is since we're on a D7 chord, we have the 3rd, 5th, dominant 7, tonic, flat 9, 11, dominant 7, 1, and then now it's going to be go over the G chord. We have the flat 3 of the G chord, the blues note, and we're going to bend up into, or hammer on up into the 3rd of the G7, which is the IV of chord, which is our destination chord. This is really imposing, sort of, a diminished structure over a dominant 7 structure. Once again twice slowly and then full speed [PLAYS LICKS]. That's where you're going.

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