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| The Harsh Desire lick forward rakes to a high root followed by a minor-to-major hammer on the way to low root. The turnaround turn it all around by echoing the beginning bars using chords instead of single notes. The lead uses repetition to set the listeners up to expect double-stops, then substitutes unusual bends that make their heads pop up.t |
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| The 12-bar Waylay melody mimicks its namesake by lulling listeners with a sing-song melody transposed for IV and V chords, then ambushing them by switching to a straight-ahead walking rhythm. The 24-bar lead stretches the technique, by lulling the listener with long slides in the first 12-bars, then filling in the slides with quick runs during the last 12-bars. |
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| The Jib Jive lick is dominated by long chord slides. Bars four, six, eight and ten consiste of two chords each half the measure and sliding toward the next chord. The "swing" time plus sliding chords complete a jazz-blues made sophisticated with VI7#9/ii7/V7#5 changes.g. |
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| The Right-On Time lick starts with a slide followed by a double-stop, Texas style. The response is a backward rake followed by a three-note chord fill that slides downward into the root. Every classic blues technique is packed into these 12 bars--a MUS T for budding jammers.. |
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CD: Non Sequitur Sheet Music
Label: ElectricGuitarist.Org
Credits: Composed and performed by Robert Colin Johnson |
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| The guitar lick for Sliding Sideways plays off the chromatic runs between the 6th-b7th slide of the IV chord being just a 1/2-step below the b3rd-3rd slide of the I chord. Then when you expect the trend to continue with the 6th-b7th slide for the V chord, it switches to a chromatic descent during jazzy ii-V changes, topped off by 12-fret overtones against Dorian-mode open-string runs. |
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| The guitar lick for More to Come plays off the mood swings between major and minor tones with a root-6th-b7th call, followed by a chromatic response that slides from the 7th up to the root. All 12 tones in the key are used in this 12 bar lick--don't miss a note! |
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| This jazz lick, bluesified here, starts with powerful ninth chords, then punctuates with a forward rake that makes the ears prick upright. The 2/5 changes in the turnaround bring the blues home, but with a jazzy touch that makes this lick a keeper. S |
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CD: Non Sequitur Sheet Music
Label: ElectricGuitarist.Org
Credits: Composed and performed by Robert Colin Johnson |
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| Hear here the lick from the song, Long Way Down, as it appears in the sheet music and guitar tablature under "Images" above. |
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CD: LONG WAY DOWN Sheet Music
Label: ElectricGuitarist.Org
Credits: Composed and performed by Robert Colin Johnson |
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| Rise up from those depressed minor tones to meet the major blues sound of hope. An inspirational lick yields to chord melodies and bass solos, ending with a fanfare of single string guitar riffs. |
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CD: Looking Up Sheet Music
Label: ElectricGuitarist.Org
Credits: Composed and performed by Robert Colin Johnson |
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| Hear here the guitar lick, as notated in the sheet music, from "Fatefully". The sands of time flow relentlessly toward the level ground, grinding down the dunes as fatefully as water to the sea. Try not, to force obstacles aside, but merely flow around them, undermining their foundation. Time is on the side of the devoted, since in the fullness of time the inevitability of change fatefully erodes all obstacles to dust. Check out the sheet music with TAB under "Photos". |
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CD: Fatefully Sheet Music
Label: ElectricGuitarist.Org
Credits: Composed and performed by Robert Colin Johnson |
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| Hear here the Walking Tall lick by itself, in one verse. Play the whole song at mp3.com/Johnson or at the top of this page by clicking the "Walking Tall" icon. Guitar tablature (TAB) for the lick is under "Images" above. Jam Mix rhythm tracks to solo over can be played free by clicking on "Walking Tall Sheet Music" CD at left. |
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CD: WALKING TALL Sheet Mucic
Label: ElectricGuitarist.Org
Credits: Composed and performed by Robert Colin Johnson |
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| Play the lick from Hot Shot by itself, by clicking here,just the way its in the guitar tablature (TAB under "Images" above. Jam Mix rhythm tracks to solo over can be played free by clicking on the "Hot Shot Sheet Music" under Albums.
"Hot Shot." is a major blues lick within a call and response pattern, the sheet music shows standard notation and rhythmic guitar tablature (TAB). "Hot Shot" uses a slow blues changes (1-4-1-1-4-4-1-1-5-4-1-5), but rockets alone at 120 bpm. The response uses a backward rake, that makes you sound like a Texas bluesman, and the turnaround uses a forward rake that makes you sophisticated like Chicago.
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CD: Hot Shot Sheet Music
Label: ElectricGuitarist.Org
Credits: - composed and performed by Robert Colin Johnson |
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| Hear the licks from Hot Shot by themselves by clicking here. Play the whole song below or view the guitar tablature (TAB) by clicking "Photos" above. Jam Mix rhythm tracks to solo over can be played free by clicking on the "Stand Back Sheet Music" CD at left. (Hint: put the sheet music in one window and the buttons to play the various CD cuts in another window.) |
CD: Stand Back Sheet Music
Label: ElectricGuitarist.Org
Credits: Music composed and performed by Robert Colin Johnson |
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| Play the licks from our TAB over this bass/drums-only jam-mix rhythm-track, or improvise new melodies atop it and record your own hit song--royalty free!Å |
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