00:00Hey everybody, Andy Timmons, welcome back to Melodic Muse for Guitar World and we're continuing
00:22talking about building and today we're going to put some of these pieces together and play over
00:26a C sharp minor blues so I'm going to be trying to do the best I can to play some really beautiful
00:31melodies with bending and I hope it inspires you so let's get into it.
01:04So here's the chord progression.
01:34So here's the chord progression.
02:04As I start the solo, you know, I've always kind of have some kind of potential direction
02:32in mind.
02:33I want to start simply, and as the lines build, you'll see that I'm kind of ascending up the
02:39neck, even though it's just one time through a blues form.
02:43And I might continue playing as the band vamps up.
02:46But even just this one time through the form, it's got a certain direction.
02:51It's starting kind of low and building up and building excitement and kind of climaxing
02:54in a certain way before the band comes in fully.
02:57So when I start off on that C sharp minor, I might not be remembering verbatim what I
03:05played, but some of the basic things that I was doing, and it's all really revolving around
03:09bending melodies through the chord tones, right?
03:12So I'm going to be very aware that if I'm on C sharp minor seven, I know where the root
03:17is, where that third is particularly, the fifth is, and where the flat seven is, and where
03:24the root is, right?
03:25So I played something to the, right?
03:30So I'm making a melody, bending up to the ninth.
03:38Another common thing I do quite a bit is even though I'm bending up to a scale tone, I might
03:44bend again to the next scale tone, and that's what I'm doing.
03:46I'm bending up to the ninth from the C sharp.
03:48And then adding another half step to that by achieving the third.
03:56Because again, I know that's kind of, that's what's outlining that harmony.
03:59That's what's giving you the tone of the chord.
04:05But I'm really featuring more of the ninth because it's more of a, it's more of a kind
04:09of a tension note.
04:13Then I resolve it in a way where I'm coming back down to the root and eventually back down
04:17to the fifth.
04:18You know, in the next, in the next phrase I get into, I'm bending further up through.
04:33There I get up, I'm getting up into this position here in the ninth fret where I'm,
04:37I'm bending from the fifth to the flat seven.
04:40Now that's a, that's a minor third bend.
04:44So this time I'm not going up to the next scalar pitch.
04:46I'm actually skipping a tone going to the next pitch.
04:50So that's, but I start by bending to the, that seventh.
04:56And that's a nice tension tone because we're still, we're on a static C sharp minor.
05:00So that note, that's the sixth scale degree.
05:04And so it's a kind of a cool, it's like the, it's like that, the ninth where it wants to,
05:09it wants to resolve.
05:13So, but I'm bending up.
05:17Do that kind of thing all the time.
05:18As I'm wanting to gather even more energy and kind of a climax to the solo on that,
05:33when it gets to the five chord, I utilize this bend.
05:38That's a very bluesy way of approaching the five chord in that I'm, I'm starting on the,
05:44on the root, bending from the flat third to the fourth.
05:50And instead of releasing to the flat third, it's flat, flat third plus.
05:56It's not quite the major third, not the minor third.
06:01It's all right.
06:02Then I slide all the way up here to where I'm fretting the, the F sharp.
06:09I mean, yeah, the, the, the F sharp bending up to the G sharp.
06:14Here's the first time we get into a chromatic bend.
06:18So I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm achieving the root.
06:23Letting it descend to the natural seven to the flat seven.
06:26And I'm all the way up to that high C sharp bending from B to C sharp.
06:45Actually, I think I included the flat nine, didn't I?
06:49So there's a chromatic.
06:51They're all the way up to the flat nine from the flat seven.
06:57Right.
06:59Yeah.
07:04Yeah.
07:05Yeah.
07:06Yeah.
07:09Yeah.
