So the next lick we're going to do is a series of arpeggio's based on that seventh chord setup.
They'll be the E seventh arpeggio.
And we're going to bring it down a fret which makes an E diminished, seventh arpeggio.
So again, what we have is the E seventh arpeggio and I'm picking this one, two, three and you know, consecutively first, second, third strings.
What I'm using is upstrokes with my right hand if I'm flat picking.
If you're a finger picker you can just use your fingers.
Which in themselves are upstrokes.
Down a fret gives you the E diminished seventh.
So this is really common type of blues lick and we hear it in a lot of different country blues and even in urban blues.
Now just to clear up one little bit of music theory for you.
Why when we take the E seventh and we move it down a fret is it not an E flat seventh?
It is an E flat seventh but the idea here is that you're playing it over an E base.
So if you can see this chord here, you will see that it's still the E seventh chord.
With an E here at the base.
If I bring this chord down but still keep the E in the base. That's an E diminished chord.
That's why we refer to this second lick here or this second chord down as a diminished chord.
An E diminished chord instead of just an E flat seventh and it's in that context in blues, you'll notice this quite a lot in blues.
So that's why I call it the E diminished seventh.
Ok, so let's run through the E seventh arpeggio, chord arpeggio's one more time.
So we have the E seventh. One measure.
One measure of the E diminished seventh. Back up to the E seventh.
Then typically follow with something like that. Ok.
So this is a very common type of blues technique and we want to try to develop this with some authenticity.
The first thing we have to know is what is the timing we have.
It's that one, two, three, one, two, three. Well it's the 12/8 time that I've been taking about, it's triplets.
One, two, three and that one, two, three happens over one beat.
So if you want to think of it as one, two, three, four, two, two, three, four you get the idea that the three beats fall over one beat.
So that's why we call it 12/8 time as opposed to just 4/4. It's very common in the blues.
So those are our seventh chord arpeggio's.
We're going to come back in the next lesson and do some more Lightnin Hopkins licks.
So until next time, thanks again. This is Eric Madis with JamPlay.com.