Playing Chorus 1, Lick 13 Picked on 'Natural D Blues'

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KIVETT BEDNAR: So to play the 13th lick in the first chorus of Wes Montgomery's "D-Natural Blues," we're doing a lick that starts on F and it's actually an F minor 7 with a 9 [PLAYS LICK], it starts like that. Now, instead of picking each note alternating, which ends this up in a weird place, both with the right hand, kind of and the left, what you're going to do is employ a sweeping technique so you can either do the first strike as an upstroke, and then sweep down the 3, and then make your last note an upsweep, so down--well, up, down, down, down, up, or you can just make the 1st note a downstroke as well. This is what I tend to do. I make the first stroke a downstroke, and then just do it again and make my last stroke an upstroke [PLAYS LICK]. But you can make the last stroke a downstroke as well. In fact, it leads nicely into the next lick.

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