Lick of the Day: Kenny Wayne Shepherd - "SRV Meets Lightnin' Hopkins"

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Today's lick pays homage to the playing of blues legends Stevie Ray Vaughan and Lightnin' Hopkins. It's a short but action-packed lick in the key of A, played out of the open position and incorporating lots of quick finger slides, hammer-ons, pull-offs and open strings.

You'll notice the fraction "1/4" at the top of the bend arrows for the high G note (high E string, third fret) in bar 1 and the low G (low E string, third fret) in bar 2; this indicates my use of microtonal quarter-step bends. With a microtonal bend, the string is bent just a little bit, approximately halfway between the third and fourth fret in each case here. It adds a little "sass" and attitude to the note, unlike a bend that raises a note up to a new, specific pitch.

The tempo is 100 beats per minute, 64 for slow practice.

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[dogukan361]

Sliding and pulling and picking... Yeah, that's a precise description of playing the guitar...

[Codename1000]

awesome!

[flyinv1967]

you think if i straightened the quarter inch warp on my guitar i could play like KWS?

[therealsoumen]

sometimes u can't remember exactly what you played...

so you slow down the vid in order to see... :P

[instinctfx]

Beautiful tone!

[MrGreenTortex]

I don't use apple things, can I have a tab of this great lick ??

[jharri1]

What the hell kind of cable is that?

[mrp0pcorn]

That tone is outstanding. What amp/pedals are you using?

[givemeajackson]

one sexy strat!

[Alejandro4891]

that tone is awesome

[MrVirusSnake]

very very bad relicing job...

[prsplayer210]

kinda like scuttle buttin