Lead Guitar Basics, Part 4: Two-Note Harmonies

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Become a complete blues player through these lessons in country blues fingerpicking, blues lead guitar, and bottleneck slide, with great technique lessons and blues songs from Robert Johnson, Mississippi John Hurt, and more.

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Make Me a Pallet on Your Floor

In this lesson you’ll learn a fingerstyle arrangement of the folk-blues classic “Make Me a Pallet on Your Floor” inspired by the playing of Mississippi John Hurt. Orville plays the song through and then explains the guitar part phrase by phrase. He also explains how you can alter the lengths of some of the chords, depending on how you hear the song, something that John Hurt and other great blues singers and guitarists did all the time.

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Lead Guitar Basics

Lead Guitar Basics, Part 1: String Bends and Slurs

Lead Guitar Basics, Part 2: Minor Pentatonic Scales

Lead Guitar Basics, Part 3: Picking Techniques

Lead Guitar Basics, Part 4: Two-Note Harmonies

Harmonizing your melodies with another note can be an effective way of varying your solos. In this lesson, you’ll learn how to play a major scale in thirds on strings one and two as well as a major scale in sixths on strings one and three, two ways of harmonizing a melody. You’ll also learn a cool “sliding sixths” lick.

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