Hi guys, this is Guido Bungenstock from Hamburg
and this is my 1st guitar lesson for D'Addario
and therefore i selected a guitar lick of my song
called "Thinking Of You"
The complete song can be heard & seen on my website
www.guidorist.com
And here's the lick for you...
Alright, what happen's here?
I would say, we gonna separate this in 3 or 4 sectons
so you can understand it well what I'm doing here.
First of all, i have to say that the whole lick
or the whole "mini solo" has a very free tempo.
This means rubato because it's actually coming
from the intro of my song.
That's why it's very difficult to reproduce it
the same way.
respectively transcribe precisely.
But i gonna try..
Let's go thru the sections step by step.
This is the 1st part.
Based on the D Mixolydian Mode
over the following chord here:
C/D
On this chord I play the following lick:
once again slowly
OK, as you can see
within the run I speed up a little bit, I accelerate
and because the chord is C/D as I said before
I use it on this small lick
i.e. even I start with a C major arpeggio.
That's this one here:
Alright, we're getting the impression here
as the C Lydian Mode maybe
But because we have the Chord C/D it's still
the D Mixolydian mode.
What's interesting too that I play the g
and then bend from the f# to the g again
and letting the tone fall down slowly
a nice effect.
and then i continue with a bluesy lick.
Bluesy because I'm adding a 1/4 tone bend to it
That means we're getting the impression of
I was playing in the A minor pentatonic.
Beside this we have some chromatics going from d to b
and the g# as a 4#
that add some kind of a rocky fusion touch to it.
I play it once again slowly.
and again
And then I end with the following lick
I'm sure many of you played this lick already
but it's definitely a common lick.
At least it's nothing more than the...
I would say. it's the D minor pentatonic
or maybe kind of a D major pentatonic
in fact I'm using the f & f# in combination.
There's a bit of chromatic and...
slide in to the f# and ending up with the d.
Ok, the next chord is Em 7/9
this one here:
This means of course, I gonna change the mode again
by playing the E dorian scale.
First slowly one time...
That's the 1st part...
Here you can see that I gradually speed up the lick
that adds a nice human effect to it
and yeah it just sounds cool. Once again slowly...
And here on the 2nd bend a I do a 1/4 tone.
Then i continue with this lick...
Again...
( F***!!!)
Okay...
Eventually this note e of the previous lick
the start note of the next lick.
So if I'm playing both licks one after the other
of course it sounds just one whole lick
Alright, the 2nd lick slowly again...
Some 4ths as well here...
And the final lick is... I would say...
an E minor pentatonic with an added 2nd.
And at the end a g with a 1/4 bend.
Slowly again...
A bit faster...
And now the whole part together now...
Here again you can clearly hear that the timing
is changing.
Now, the last section is in the E mixolydian mode
and sounds bit like Jeff Beck.
Jeff Beck is a player who I greatly admire
because he produces guitar tones
that no one else can reproduce.
often in connection with harmonics or the whang bar
And this is what I'm doing here too
I'll explain this slowly what I'm doing here:
First I'm sliding down from b to a
then a 1/4 tone bend on the g and going to the low e
Nothing special here. just a pentatonic
in combination with pressing the bar for a dive bomb.
But now it comes:
(oops)
Ok, what I'm doing here?
I'm playing several open harmonics
starting on the 4th fret of the e string
which is a g#
the next harmonic is on the 5th fret of the a string
next harmonic is the 5th fret of the d string
and now the 5th fret on g string too
and while the harmonic on the g string is still ringing
I play a hammer-on to the 1st fret.
It's a cool effect...
and because now we're getting the impression
that's a harmonic too.
From the beginning...
A cool effect!
And then I slide without picking
from g# to b
to d and to e
and add the octave with a tap harmonic.
all together...
And as you can see
I create the "picking" with the dip of the whang bar
here it is again:
Yeah, that's all. I hope you enjoyed it!
And as I said you'll find a lot more on:
www.guidorist.com
Gimme a like!
CIAO!!!
