Oh hi. This is Eric Madis here from JamPlay.com.
Welcome back.
You may recall in the last lesson that we did the Memphis lead exercise for a twelve bar blues shuffle in E.
Let's repeat that a little bit and go through it so we can see what we can do to make that musical.
Ok so we had descending number one in E twice.
Descending number two in E and ascend in E, that gave us our E. Then we ascended in A and descending number two in A.
Descend number two in E.
And ascend in E.
Now we descend number one in B.
And descend number one in A.
Hit the low E that's very important to do your turn around and tag.
Ok, so as you can see at this point you've got actually the framework for a solo that works over this shuffle in E that we've been talking about.
Now the fact is you'd probably never play a solo like this because it's nothing but Memphis leads, it's gets redundant, it's cute and everything
but what it's really meant to be is an exercise and this is what I mean.
So, say I'm playing a solo of some of the licks I've shown you in the past.
So, say I play something like this.
You may recognize a lot of those licks I just played, some of them you don't because they're coming up in the next few lessons.
As you can see, what I've actually done is I've pieced together ideas that I've shown you
and I just used the Memphis lead on one spot in there and that was when I was on the B seventh chord.
I used it to use descending number one in B and I just inserted it there and that's how these Memphis leads can be used.
I can use them anyway I want. Let's try it again, improvising and using a different one.
So say I start off again…
So now you may have noticed that I used the Memphis leads in two different spots in there.
Once to play over the A and another time at the end as a turn around.
So you can see they are very versatile, they can be thrown into any spot that you want them to
and wherever you happen to be on the fret board there's usually a Memphis lead waiting for you.
So that'll conclude our Memphis lead lesson
and I'll be looking forward to getting together with you next time where we talk about licks for the key and the chord of A.