So now what we're going to do is the country blues double whams.
These are two more licks in E that are essential country blues licks, urban blues licks if you're playing in E.
The double wham number one is accomplished at the seventh and eighth fret of the first two strings.
What you're going to do is use your index finger and second finger and you play them like this…
Now notice after I play these, one, two, three, four, I play the two strings the two top strings open.
You can only do this in the key of E, any other key you'll have to fret.
So let me show you the fretting notes that you'll want to know for E, for any other key.
Ok, so you can follow through by going down to the tonic or in this case the E, by coming down to the fifth fret of the second string. Like this…
Notice I'm vibrato-ing again when I play any note and I want it to sustain or have a vocal quality, I can do that.
And remember the turn of the knob, always turn backwards, turn the wrist.
You can also play with your ring finger the ninth fret of the third string…
Now there's a reason for your use of any one of these three variations on this double wham.
Whether you play it open. Whether you drop down to the fifth fret.
Or whether you stay up in the position where you're at.
That has a lot to do with where you're going to go afterwards, what are you going to play after that.
As we learn more licks you'll have a stronger idea of how you want to play that lick whenever you want to play it.
Like for instance, say I wanted to drop down to the fifth fret, I could do this.
If I stay where I'm at…
If I play it open…
It just facilitates playing different ideas.
So as you make your decisions, as you're improvising your strategy that you use, the techniques that you use are all related to each other.
Let's run through the country blues double wham one more time.
Ok, seventh and eighth fret. One, two, three, four, open.
Or index finger, fifth fret, second string.
Or ring finger, third string, ninth fret.
Let's try that again.
These are three variations. Why don't you go ahead and give those a wing right now.
Until next time this is Eric Madis at JamPlay.com.