Now it's time to play some slow blues.
This is blues and G. We're going to first be looking at
some very cool chord voicings we call the sliding nights.
They are everywhere in music and blues, Pop,
Funk on commercials on television. They are everywhere.
It's a great rhythm technique
to have an understanding of.
First I have to show you where
they're coming from a little bit.
We're in G blues and I'm going to
start with this home based chord,
which is a very beautiful G9 chord.
[MUSIC] Now, what I have in this chord,
is a 3 flat 7,
It's B, F, A, and D. BFAD.
Anyway. Here's how you
find this chord and locate this chord.
My two front fingers are even
with this G note right here,
you'll notice the third thread.
We call this an assumed root 6 voicing.
[MUSIC] Here's my one chord for this blues and G. Now
we're going to go to the same C9 chord [MUSIC]
that we played with rhythmic kits just a minute ago.
This is going to be the fourth chord that we
play off of in a minute.
We've got the root of three,
the flat seven and nine.
I'm putting the five up there too. Great voicing.
Again, I call that the James Brown voicing because
it's all of those all James Brown songs.
Also here's the D9 chord.
[MUSIC] There's my 1, 4, and 5.
What we're going to do with these voicings is
we're going to take the four notes of the chord,
but I'm going to slide only the top three.
It won't work to slide the bottom one because
you're getting into and note that
just doesn't sound good.
[MUSIC] It's a great note for G blues.
It's a flat five, but it's just
too low for chord voicing.
I'm going to leave that note off
and slide those top three notes.
[MUSIC]Now, you can use this last three fingers,
like I'm doing right now, [MUSIC] or you can play
the first three fingers [MUSIC]
when you're doing the sliding nines.
Now, let's take a look at what these chords are.
This is a D minor triad,
and this is an E minor triad.
[MUSIC] Together if you look at all those notes,
they give us what we call G9, G6,
dominant seventh chord.
This whole chord is dominant
seven because I got a three and a flat seven,
a B, and an F in here that makes a dominant.
Now, these other two notes is the A and the D,
That's the ninth and the five.
If I slide [MUSIC] up to here,
I've got the root in the third and the sixth.
Altogether that's a sixth and ninth sound,
a 13 and a nine so we call them just sliding nine.
[MUSIC] It's a great sound.
[MUSIC] You could do
a ton with that funk blues, like I said.
Now to the four chord,
we're going to take that C9 again only I'm
going to take this top three notes of
that [MUSIC] and slide those up one whole step.
[MUSIC] This is A minor triad and this is G minor triad.
[MUSIC] Those two sounds create C9 with the 13 sound.
[MUSIC] C6, 9 sound, C13.
Sliding nines on the C chord.
Same thing with the D chord take that
A minor triad, flight it to be.
[MUSIC] Here's my one and my four and my five.
I'm going to do this slow.
I'm going to slide up on beat
Here's my count, 1, 2,
and 3, 4,
now going to the four right there.
Back to the 1,
[MUSIC] 5.
[MUSIC] I can use this finger, or this finger.
[MUSIC] Either when you want to use.
[MUSIC]
There you go.
Now I'm going to play this with
a rhythm section tract, same group.
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