Here's a traditional lick that I call Lightning Hopkins four chord lick.
What we do is we use our index finger and our second finger
and we bring them up to the fifth and sixth frets respectively, of the second and third strings.
They look like this.
Now as you may notice this is actually kind of like an A chord.
If I were to put a barred chord in there you could see that those two chords are contained.
If I were to just play an A chord here, like an F chord brought up to the fifth fret, that we have an A chord there.
This little triad right here this is an A triad.
So when we play the second and third strings we actually have the fifth and third is what we call of the A major triad.
So we start off with those two notes and it's always nice to slide into them from the fret below.
As opposed to, and that way we get that nice, sliding, bluesy sound.
Ok. Then we use the ring finger, second finger and index finger on the first string there of the seventh, sixth and fifth frets.
Ok. Then we use little finger, ring finger and index finger on the second string.
For the eighth, seventh and fifth frets. So in other words again, those two strings.
Then we're going to put the first, second, third fingers down on the second string on the fifth, sixth and seventh frets
and we're just going to do a little half step bend there.
By that I mean just barely bend. So in other words, it's not a big bend but it's just a…
In other words if you were just sliding it would be up one fret down.
It doesn't take much work but you've still got to turn that wrist like we've done in the past.
Ok. So let's look at that whole lick again. We've got…
One more time for you slide into fifth and sixth frets. First string.
Second string.
Half step bend.
And then finish this on this E note, that's the second string, fifth fret with the index finger.
Why don't you try that one.