Jared James Nichols  Combining Varying Approaches In My “Hard Wired” Solo - video Dailymotion

In this lesson, Jared James Nichols shares some of the varied approaches and techniques he uses in his song, “Hard Wired.”

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00:00Hey everyone Jared here and I want to talk to you about the solo section for my tune

00:10Hardwired. Now something very cool about this section is simply the way I'm interpreting

00:15the chord progression. We switch it up a little bit and we start from a D chord going into a G

00:23chord to an F but the way that I'm playing these chords is I'm keeping them very open. A lot of the

00:31way is having that low or I'm sorry that middle D string open throughout. So for the G chord I'm

00:38going from the fifth fret and then holding the third on the G and then sliding it two frets down

00:47to hit that F. The way that I love to interpret this is when I'm improvising is really relying

01:00on that major third to the minor third. So one of the things I like to do is kind of a section like

01:05that's where I'll go.

01:35really dancing around having your ear twist between that major third the

01:40sliding into that minor. There's something beautiful to me about really messing with those

01:48kind of double stops from the

01:50and then our solo section truly kicks off with a heavy kind of I call like a shotgunny

02:04kind of riff which is very simple. It's all around staying in that key of D. Here's the riff. It goes

02:12That's kind of what we're soloing over for our section. So my head goes Hendrix. My head goes Johnny

02:28Winner. I open up that solo section with something that I always do no matter what. I'll do it a few

02:34different variations but it's basically getting this triad. I'm going super red house on it and I think that

02:39this is a really really useful thing across the board for soloing. Sometimes instead of adding more notes

02:47it's more about letting small chordal fragments ring into each other. So what I'll do is I'll do in the key of D

02:55that little

02:56bluesy walk down right starting up here for in the key of D on the 14th fret with our

03:02middle and ring finger and then the 13th fret with our on our B string

03:06and I'll walk that down a half step. Sometimes I'll walk it down another half step

03:16or I'll do another Hendrix where I'll walk it up chromatically.

03:23That's how I love to start that solo section and sometimes I'll rely as well on using my

03:34technique where I use my index fingertip to really kind of

03:38I love doing that because it adds so much tension. It's

03:53all about having that feeling of it's almost like a stick of dynamite it's just about to explode

03:58and using that setting up the solo section with that always feels really really exciting.