NUGGETS
Fig. 1
Fig. 1
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Bb
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Though others made their bids earlier
than the mid-50s, the late “Brown-eyed
Handsome Man” is generally considered
to be the “Father of Rock ‘n’ Roll” for the
extraordinary catalog of classics he duck-
walked to fame all the way to the early
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60s. Synthesizing blues, country music,
and swing, he could play his guitar “like
ringing a bell.” Fig. 1 contains an intro
solo nugget with choice notes from the Bb
major chord and the Bb composite blues
scale in two positions.
Fig. 2
Fig. 2
B6
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Sassy and sweet 6th chord voicings be-
loved by swing jazz and rockabilly cats are
shown in Fig. 2 as the harmony to the I (B)
and IV (E) chords in another “Chuckster”
MAY / JUNE
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E6
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12-bar classic. Dig how moving the form in
a parallel fashion to the 14th position for
the V (F#) chord would allow the progres-
sion to go “around and around.”
DIGITAL EDITION
GUITAR TRICKS INSIDER
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