Friday's Jazz Lick
Funky B flat
Tabs
|--3-| |--3--| |--3-| |--3--| |--3--| |--3--| |---3--| |--3--|
Q E E E E Q E E E E E E E E E E E E E E E E
E||--5g6----5-----------5g6----5-----------|-----------------------------------8--9--|
B||----6-------8--6-------6-------8--6-----|------------------------8--10--11--------|
G||------------------7------------------7--|--5--7--8--7--8--9--10-------------------|
D||----------------------------------------|-----------------------------------------|
A||----------------------------------------|-----------------------------------------|
E||----------------------------------------|-----------------------------------------|
|--3--| |--3--| |--3-| |---3---|
Q E Q E H Q E E E E H
--10--------------------------|--8g10----8------------------------|-----------||
--------11-------11--L--------|----10-------11--10----------------|-----------||
------------------------------|---------------------10------------|-----------||
------------------------------|-------------------------8~--------|-----------||
------------------------------|-----------------------------------|-----------||
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Lick Information
A major sounding alternate picking jazz lick with interval playing and chromatic approach.
Sound settings
Guitar: Modded US Strat, neck single pickup, tone knob rolled off.
String Gauge: 11-48
Amp: Amplitube 3 software, Fender silverface with spring reverb, and vintage compressor stomp.
Scales and Theory
This funky jazz lick is in the key of B major, and uses Bb6 as a starting point. The rhythm is comping with swing feel on the Bb6/9 chord, and the scale is mostly Bb major with an added chromatic passage in the second bar.
