Hi there I'm Tomas Michaud. In this lesson, I'm going to show you a cool
layer from the song Stand by Me, let's do this.
I'll start off showing you the lick then we'll break it down step by step and at
the end I'll explain to you how you can add this lick into the chords if you
want to play the whole song. Okay we'll start with the first phrase on the sixth
string. We're gonna go open then the second fret and then the third fret with
the third finger. Hit that twice. You'll notice I dampen the string that meant I
stopped it from ringing with my third finger by lifting it off slightly. It
sounds like this -- Now the second half of that phrase instead of going up to the
second fret I just go low open and then back to the third fret. So altogether
it's open, open third finger that's the first phrase. Unto the second
phrase, now we go backwards from the third fret to the open string then over
to the fifth string with a second finger second fret and back to the sixth string.
You'll notice I had to dampen the string a little differently this time by
touching the string with my left hand because when I played the open string I
didn't have a chance to just lift it off and stop the string from ringing. Let's
do that phrase again. Open, mute, fifth string, open. Now the next phrase I go up the fifth
string over to the fourth string, open. Let's do that much. The fifth string going up
to the second fret and the third. Here we go open, second fret, third fret
mute two times over to the fourth string second fret open and mute like we did on the sixth
string because it was open. Now the final phrase the fourth phrase back to the
sixth string and repeat that and that's the entire
lick. Let's do it one time through and connect them together. You can go ahead
and play along with me. I'll go slow. Start with the open sixth string, second,
third, now open third,
going down fifth string back to open sixth up the
fifth string, over to the fourth, open and down to the sixth string, again. I learned this
from listening to the original Ben Eking of Stand By Me. He's
playing it in the key that's a half-step up. If you wanted to play the recording
you can just put the capo here on the second fret and do the same thing. By the
way, if you want to play the song it's pretty easy in the key I'm playing it in
the key of C because they're all open chords no barre chords. If you want to
learn the strum and the chords of this song I've made a whole separate video
for that and I'll put a link here but I want to show you now how this lick fits
in with the chords. We'll start off with a G chord,
the A minor/
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