He is essentially playing two guitar parts at once, the bass notes with his pick held by thumb and fore finger and the improvised melody plucked with the third and fourth fingers. Its just makes him smile - we should be so lucky as to smile and not be swearing and gnashing our teeth. We also alternate the bass notes switching from 6th to 5th to 4th and back and forth with chord changes.
If you don't have any fingerpicking and particularly hybrid picking skills you are going to wish you did. I am working on developing mine and although any exposure is better than none (usually), this isn't my preferred method of learning guitar fingerpicking or hybrid picking either. Steve does his best to teach us but is hamstrung by dicklibrary not allowing pamphlets.
Section four is Brian Setzers Rock This Town. He shows us a couple of solos that Brian might play on this song. Brian's sound has some distortion added to it and a lot of Reverb. We are in the key of D and the chords are pretty much D A D D7 G A D. The solo is a minor pentatonic using triplets and Steve takes us through the whole of the various sections of the songs solo. This is all flat picked and these licks each have three sections to them. The etude become a bit more painstaking.
Section Five is how Brian Setzer might play a Rockabilly style blues. Its a 12 bar blues in the key of A and he breaks down all the licks for us and fortunately they are all flat picked. This goes on for 20 minutes and is well explained. Its far more Bebop than Chicago blues in my opinion which is fine. I didn't come here for Chicago Blues I came here for Rockabilly.
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