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00:03 Hey, everybody.
00:18 Andy Timmons.
00:19 Welcome back to Melodic Muse for Guitar World.
00:21 And we're continuing talking about building.
00:23 And today, we're going to put some of these pieces together
00:25 and play over C-sharp minor blues.
00:27 So I'm going to be trying to do the best I can
00:29 to play some really beautiful melodies with bending.
00:33 And I hope it inspires you.
00:34 So let's get into it.
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01:29 So here's the chord progression.
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02:26 As I start the solo, I've always
02:29 have some kind of potential direction in mind.
02:33 I want to start simply.
02:35 And as the lines build, you'll see that I'm
02:37 kind of ascending up the neck, even though it's just
02:40 one time through a blues form.
02:43 And I might continue playing as the band vamps up.
02:46 But even just this one time through the form,
02:48 it's got a certain direction.
02:51 It's starting kind of low and building up
02:52 and building excitement and kind of climaxing
02:54 in a certain way before the band comes in fully.
02:57 So when I start off on that C-sharp minor--
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03:02 --I might not be remembering verbatim what I played,
03:05 but some of the basic things that I was doing--
03:07 and it's all really revolving around bending melodies
03:10 through the chord tones, right?
03:12 So I'm going to be very aware that if I'm on C-sharp minor 7,
03:16 I know where the root is, where that third is, particularly,
03:20 the fifth is, and where the flat 7 is,
03:23 and where the root is, right?
03:25 So I played something to the--
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03:29 Right?
03:30 So I'm making a melody, bending up to the ninth.
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03:38 Another common thing I do quite a bit
03:40 is, even though I'm bending up to a scale tone,
03:43 I might bend again to the next scale tone.
03:45 And that's what I'm doing.
03:46 I'm bending up to the ninth from the C-sharp--
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03:51 --and then adding another half step to that
03:54 by achieving the third.
03:56 Because again, I know that's what's outlining that harmony.
03:59 That's what's giving you the tone of the chord.
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04:05 But I'm really featuring more of the ninth,
04:07 because it's more of a tension note.
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04:13 Then I resolve it in a way, so I'm
04:15 coming back down to the root, and eventually
04:17 back down to the fifth.
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04:21 In the next phrase I get into, I'm bending further up through.
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04:33 There I get up.
04:34 I'm getting up into this position here
04:36 in the ninth fret, where I'm bending from the fifth
04:39 to the flat seven.
04:40 Now, that's a minor third bend.
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04:44 So this time, I'm not going up to the next scalar pitch.
04:46 I'm actually skipping a tone going to the next pitch.
04:49 So that's--
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04:52 But I start by bending to that seventh.
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04:56 And that's a nice tension tone, because still we're
04:58 on a static C sharp minor.
05:00 So that note--
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05:03 --that's the sixth scale degree.
05:04 So it's kind of a cool--
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05:07 It's like that ninth, where it wants to resolve.
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05:13 But I'm bending up.
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05:17 I do that kind of thing all the time.
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05:21 Because I'm wanting to gather even more energy and kind
05:31 of a climax to the solo on that.
05:32 When it gets to the five chord, I utilize this bend.
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05:38 That's a very bluesy way of approaching the five chord,
05:42 in that I'm starting on the root,
05:46 bending from the flat third to the fourth.
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05:50 And instead of releasing the flat third,
05:53 it's flat third plus.
05:55 It's not quite the major third, not the minor third.
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06:00 Then I slide all the way up here to where I'm fretting the F
06:09 sharp--
06:09 I mean, yeah, the F sharp bending up to the G sharp.
06:14 Here's the first time we get into a chromatic bend.
06:18 So I'm achieving the root, letting it
06:23 descend to the natural seventh into the flat seventh.
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06:28 And all the way up to that high C sharp
06:36 bending from B to C sharp.
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06:41 Actually, I think I included the flat nine, didn't I?
06:49 So there's a chromatic all the way up to the flat nine
06:52 from the flat seven.
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07:03 (upbeat music)
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