This music is a combination of rock and blues with Latino American rhythms. One of the most important Latin rock musicians is Carlos Santana. This Mexican musician and guitarist started in the 60's doing a combination of blues guitar with Latin percussion.
To get that soft sound we will use our thumb to slightly brush the strings. There are many chord types involved, from simple 7th chords to much complex, add13,+9 etc.
Playing a wah pedal seems simple, and it can be - thats the beauty of it. All you have to do is tap your foot on the beat and you already have some interesting rhythmic effects going on. But you can do a lot more with a wah pedal using different combinations of foot tapings and rhythm syncopation.
Here we have some of the finest, classic blues licks from one of greatest bluesman in the world. The one and only Mr. B.B.King. Phrasing of this man is legendary, and you can really hear his soul and heart in his playing and singing.
We go through 4 chord inversion on 4 adjacent treble strings, 4 adjacent middle strings and 4 adjacent bass strings. These inversion are all the dominant voicings that you`ll be needing in order to make some great funk riffs or vamps.
It's based on the D dorian scale and it has an Irish background sound, but I think the lead itself has more of an ethnic sound. Hope you will like it! I think it's a lot more simple than many electric solos out there, but you need to devlope a different touch on this one so it will sound good.
Alternate picking, pull-offs and hammer-ons, hybrid picking, "chicken" picking, bends and double bends, use of open strings, even "fake" steel guitar technique. Hop inside!
An open tuning is where the strings are intentionally tuned to achieve a chord with all the open strings played together.
The open G tuning is also used with the bottleneck because it's easy to play these major chords with the slide technique.
Using mostly only "neighbour" notes - no no weird scales or anything like that. For example, to play note A we add note G# before, or Bb, depending of situation.
The 7th chord is basically like a normal chord (root, third, fifth), but with the 7th note added. They are mainly used in jazz, but other musical genres can also get a nice flavor adding them in song progressions here and there.