Andy Timmons - How To Play “One Last Time,” Part 2 - video Dailymotion

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Andy Timmons previously demonstrated how to play the primary theme to “One Last Time,” from his latest release, Electric Truth. In this column, he takes a look at the bridge of the song, which serves as the solo section. It’s basically just a repeating two-chord progression which Andy breaks down and describes his thought process on how he put this solo together.

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00:00Hey everybody, Andy Timmons here. Welcome back to Melodic Muse for Guitar World Magazine.

00:22We're going to continue to examine my tune one last time from the electric truth record.

00:26And today we're looking at the bridge, which is basically the solo section of the tune,

00:31a little two chord progression. So we're going to break down how I played it,

00:35what the thought process was behind it.

00:56So let's break down the solo section now to one last time.

01:23And it's still in B-flat minor, but luckily we're going to just have two chords to navigate.

01:29And it's a basic, I always kind of think of it as Pink Floyd-esque.

01:33Because it's B-flat minor.

01:35I guess we can consider it like an A-flat over E-flat into E-flat major.

01:44Okay, so that's essentially what I'm going to be playing over.

01:53And it's all B-flat minor pentatonic.

01:57Maybe some of the...

02:00But I'm certainly going to address, when I get to that E-flat major,

02:04I'm going to want to address that note G to really give the flavor.

02:07The flavor of that, going to that major, whatever you want to call it,

02:13V chord in the key, if we're thinking A-flat major.

02:19Right?

02:22Really nice to hear that flavor as we go by.

02:25So we're coming out of a big bend.

02:30A big Albert King bend.

02:32And I guess I'd be on the D-flat.

02:37I'm bending up all the way to the F.

02:41And then releasing it.

02:46And a slight bluesy, cracky kind of bend at the end.

02:51Not quite up to the D, but...

02:57And then I just play it.

03:02Because right then, we're on that E-flat.

03:11And then the next little move.

03:18It's probably my favorite part of the solo,

03:19because I'm playing...

03:21Down here, I've got the F note on the D-string, on the 3rd fret.

03:25So I'm playing just the 5th and 3rd of that.

03:29The B-flat minor.

03:33But then I go...

03:34Then I bend from the B-flat, that 3rd fret of the G-string.

03:42And if I get just the right finger...

03:45Get a little bit of a fleshy overtone.

03:51Right there.

03:53Slapping it a bit.

03:57Releasing it.

03:57That's a whole step bend up to the C.

04:01Which is a nice tension note.

04:02That's the 9.

04:04Really wants to go somewhere.

04:05That wants to resolve either to the B-flat or...

04:08Or up to that 3rd.

04:10So it's a real pleasant resolution,

04:12because I'm bending...

04:12Up to the D-flat.

04:16The 3rd.

04:20Releasing it a half step.

04:22To that C.

04:23Then down to the B-flat.

04:24So it's a melody happening in the bend.

04:34And there...

04:35Since I'm down in this position...

04:38I've got that A-flat to G...

04:41To give the...

04:42The 3rd of that E-flat chord that we're going to.

04:49And I might have given the...

04:50You can use some finger vibrato.

04:51I might have used the tremolo bar a little bit.

04:56And then...

04:57So I'm dipping the tremolo bar just slightly...

05:02As I pull off from that A-flat.

05:08Yeah, we're not often in the key of B-flat minor...

05:10Going to E-flat.

05:11So it's kind of nice to have that open G...

05:13Be the 3rd of a chord.

05:17So I pull off.

05:21But while I pull off...

05:23I'm dipping into the open G-string.

05:28Then I play the root.

05:31Play the E-flat, B-flat, D-flat.

05:34So of the E-flat...

05:36It's the 3rd, root, 5th, and B-flat 7.

05:40I'm just arpeggio-ing.

05:44The simplest notes you could play...

05:45But sometimes the most effective, right?

05:47So...

05:48Another...

05:55Got a little whammy happy on this one.

05:58It sounds like...

05:59But again, it's just a way of...

06:03Again, making more out of it...

06:05Because I could have...

06:05I could have just played the notes...

06:09But it just needed the energy.

06:16So I finish that phrase.

06:19And then I'm just climbing up the B-flat minor pentatonic.

06:22Now again, I'm going to make use of that tension...

06:31Of the C-natural over that B-flat minor chord.

06:34Just a real pretty sound.

06:36I've always liked that sound on a minor.

06:44But here, I'm bending from that B-flat to the C...

06:47Down to the F to A-flat.

06:52So you can kind of hear...

06:58You know, there's points of tension...

07:02And going places...

07:02But finally...

07:04Just kind of getting back to home.

07:07The home tone.

07:08That B-flat.

07:13Right?

07:14Could have been...

07:16Here, I'm bending from that D-flat up to an E-flat.

07:22So it's the 4th.

07:24But...

07:24I'm just going scalarily back to that root.

07:29And then...

07:31I think I've been from the...

07:33Probably from the F, yeah.

07:34So as I get out of this B-flat minor...

07:37Now we're going to E-flat.

07:42So guess where I'm headed.

07:43I'm going to bend from that F to the A-flat.

07:46Now I'm just...

07:49I'm just...

07:49Again, just surrounding that...

07:51The 4th of the 3rd.

07:54So bending F...

07:55I have a minor 3rd...

07:57Releasing it.

08:00And then bending back up to just the G.

08:02So it's a minor 3rd bend, releasing, then up to a whole-step bend.

08:05Then I go back down.

08:12So again, now I'm thinking back into this position here.

08:14But playing the E-flat to F...

08:16And I'm bending from that F up to the A-flat.

08:19So it's a minor 7th again.

08:21So it goes...

08:26And to get a little emphasis, you'll notice a little...

08:29A little pick rake, where I'm muting everything leading up to that E-flat.

08:41Just to give it a little energy.

08:43Again, just to kind of set that note apart in a particular way.

08:47And the muting that's happening, it's kind of happening in two places.

08:51It's happening a little bit in the right hand, the picking hand, mute.

08:54So I might have the palm of my hand on the strings I'm wanting to just get the rake.

09:01But also...

09:02It's also happening in the left hand, where my thumb is kind of wrapped around

09:06and muting the low string.

09:08And even the underside of my fingers I'm not using for that note.

09:17Anyway.

09:18All these little things add up.

09:20And it's just part of the delivery of these notes.

09:24And I'm basically doing an ascending bend.

09:34It's the whole step bend.

09:36And then on the G string.

09:37And then re-articulating the note that I've arrived to on the B string.

09:45Originally, I would have gotten this type of thing from Hendrix.

09:47Where he would have bent that note and then held the fretted note

09:53that's being bent to in unison.

10:01So I'm going from that F.

10:04But this time, I'm only...

10:05I'm bending the note on the G string a whole step.

10:09And then fretting that note on the B.

10:15That's right off the B flat minor pentatonic.

10:16Those are the target notes.

10:19And then you go down to the G string, two frets above.

10:31And that's kind of the big peak of the solo as it goes into the little bridge channel.

10:35If you notice, there's a lot of times where, you know, it might make sense to alternate pick something.

10:45But sometimes the energy requires it.

10:51And on that big top note, that's pretty common for me on the treble strings,

10:55meaning the E and the B string.

10:57Instead of down-picking to get the tone, I'll pick underneath.

11:05Just get a little bit more meat of the pick and...

11:09A lot of times, some additional harmonic.

11:16Anyway, I'm just pointing that out for you.

11:17Something like that.

11:29And get into it.

11:31I'm exactly the same part in this show.

11:33Right there, I'm just saying...

11:35For more information.

11:36I'm just kidding.

11:38Not sure about the etc.

11:40Uncle Uncle Leo Maiden.

11:43Do you wanna learn how to get into it anyway?

11:45Once upon the time.

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