May-school / Roo - Lesson #3 - Farm soloing

This country solo is built on an 8 bars chords progression that could be repeated.

Here the last two bars are the outro. I tryed to demonstrate differents techniques.

On each chord (above the tab) I play a mix of mixolydian and blues scale. So check out the diagram I paste: TABULATURE

A Mixolydian notes: A, B, C#, D, E, F#, G

A Blues Scale notes: A, C, D, D#, E, G

I started out with country licks, mixing those two scales. I add also passing notes and open strings. The plucked notes with a clean tone give some dynamic and twang feel. All you have to do is to repeat this recept over each chord. For this solo, each single bar is a lick that you can practice independently and include it in your own playing.

Lets have a closer look at this very solo:

First bar. On the strings skippings, I use chicken picking.

The 2nd bar is alternate picking, I repeat the same pattern over two octaves.

Bar 4 is a Danny Gatton lick, mix of chromatics and pentatonics.

Bar 5 needs strength in the fingers with lots of pull-offs/ hammer-ons. I descend a E major arpeggio and add passing notes.

Bar 6, alternate picking. Mixing mixolydian and chromatic scale...

Bar 7, double stops which mean some lead notes are double notes. I play chicken picking.

Bar 8 is a kind of blues turn around. Each note must sound independently so do not let ring the strings. It is pretty challenging to play, like fast sweep picking arpeggios.

Bar 9&10 are simply chords to fill the outro.

A decent clean channel and some hot pickups do the rest of the job... Hope you enjoyed the farm animals sounds which add a genuine country touch.

See you for next lesson!

Roo

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