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.
01:13So here's the chord progression.
01:43So here's the chord.
02:13As I start the solo, you know, I've always kind of have some kind of potential direction in mind.
02:33I want to start simply, and as the lines build, you'll see that I'm kind of ascending up the neck.
02:39Even though it's just one time through a blues form, and 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 in 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 played,
03:05but some of the basic things that I was doing, and it's all really revolving around bending melodies through the chord tones, right?
03:12So I'm going to be very aware that if I'm on C sharp minor 7, I know where the root is, where that 3rd is, particularly the 5th is, and where the flat 7 is, and where the root is, right?
03:25So I played something to the, right?
03:30So I'm making a melody, bending up to the 9th.
03:38Another common thing I do quite a bit is even though I'm bending up to a scale tone, I might bend again to the next scale tone, and that's what I'm doing.
03:46I'm bending up to the 9th from the C sharp, and then adding another half step to that by achieving the 3rd, because 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, but I'm really featuring more of the 9th, because it's more of a, it's more of a kind of a tension note.
04:10Then I resolve it in a way, so I'm coming back down to the root, and eventually back down to the 5th.
04:26You know, in the next phrase I get into, I'm bending further up through.
04:31There I get up, I'm getting up into this position here in the 9th fret, where I'm bending from the 5th to the flat 7th.
04:40Now that's a, that's a minor 3rd bend.
04:44So this time I'm not going up to the next scalar pitch, I'm actually skipping a tone, going to the next pitch.
04:50So that's, but I start by bending to the, that 7th.
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 6th scale degree.
05:04And so it's a kind of a cool, it's like the, it's like that, the 9th, where it wants to, it 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, when it gets to the 5th chord, I utilize this bend.
05:36And that's a very bluesy way of approaching the 5th chord, in that I'm starting on the, on the root, bending from the flat 3rd to the 4th.
05:50And instead of releasing the flat 3rd, it's flat, flat 3rd plus.
05:55It's not quite the major 3rd, not the minor 3rd.
05:58It's alright.
06:05And I slide all the way up here, to where I'm fretting the, the F sharp, I 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.
06:16So, I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm achieving the root.
06:23Letting it descend to the natural 7th into the flat 7th.
06:34And I'm all the way up to that high C sharp bending from B to C sharp.
06:38Actually, I think I included the flat 9, didn't I?
06:49So, there's a chromatic.
06:51All the way up to the flat 9 from the flat 7th.
06:53All the way up to the flat 7th.
07:10All the way up to the t Commentator.
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