"SOUL of the BLUES #6 guitar lick" genre: Jump Blues
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	Click to hear the guitar lick as notated in the sheet music, from the Soul of the Blues #6. The Jam It lick heard here uses a major-blues slur and a backward rack as its sugar and spice, respectively.
	CD: Soul of the Blues #6   Label: BluesGuitarist.Org Credits: - composed and performed by Robert Colin Johnson
	Story Behind the Song The "call" part of this lick rakes the pick backward across the 2nd, 3rd, and 4th strings (G, Eb, C) using a first finger bar at the 8th fret, for the G and Eb, and the third finger holding down the C at the 10th fret. The last part of the lick uses the free 2nd finger to hammer upward from minor third (Eb) to major third (E), in I chord bars, or in IV (F) or IIm (Dm) bars from the second (D) to the third (Eb). Note the chord fingerings which help walk the bass up from F to Gb (bar 2) to G (bar 3, where w e substitute a C-less C7), and then back down again in bar 4, where we use the common flat-V substitute (Gb7) for the ordinary C7. The 8 to 12 bar chord changes use the II-V harmonies that distinguish a swing blues, starting with the IIIm (Em7) to VI cho rd (A7) change in bar 8 (which is just a II-V transposed up a whole tone). Keep your fingers in position on the A7 as you slide your hand up to the tenth fret to sound the IIm (Dm7) chord in the 9th bar. Remember that the IIm (Dm7) chord is minor, so your third finger is on the 10th fret instead of the 11th as it would be for a major chord.

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