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Electric Country Guitar Lessons: “Crazy Arms” Advanced Soloing Over Songs

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[MUSIC]
All right that was Crazy Arms.

And you can see we did a little bit of
embellishing there on the melody as well.

Instead of just sticking to that

one note melody like
[MUSIC].

I incorporated two notes into the melody.

So when I slid up to the blue note there,

the B flat
[MUSIC]

I went

[MUSIC]

So what that is,

is I'm just using a little
bit of this harmony

notes that we went over
in the previous lessons.

[MUSIC]

So that

bend there,

that's

a pretty

old-school-style

thing.

What I'm doing there is
I'm hitting the C note.

[MUSIC]
And

that's pretty cool if you
use that taste for it.

So what I'm doing, I'm basically going
[MUSIC]

But I'm bending that last note

[MUSIC]

And then a chromatic down.

[MUSIC]
So there's that.

Now you'll notice when
I do the turn around

[MUSIC]

When I went to G,

[MUSIC]

I did a little E-minor [SOUND] E-flat

minor [SOUND] D minor to G 9.

So I went into a little thing there
that was just a little substitution

over the five chord.

So
[MUSIC]

And I'm starting to get into a little of

these almost like chord melody things,
which we are gonna go over.

But that was just coming over the 5 chord.

[MUSIC]
Sot that's just an E minor shape

[MUSIC]

Half step down, E flat minor.

D minor [SOUND] and
then going from D minor to [SOUND] the G9.

So
[MUSIC]

we're getting a little jazzy but

that's okay cuz this is a country shuffle.

[MUSIC]
So that's D minor to G9.

[MUSIC]
And

I'm just walking this base
note down to guess what?

The major third.

Cuz there you go.

[SOUND] It's outlying
that chord perfectly.

So
[MUSIC]

What I did there was I hammered on.

[MUSIC]
Actually, I didn't hammer on, but

I hit this note here.

So
[MUSIC]

Right to your 5

chord, G9.

And then revolving back to your 1.

So over the 5 chord.

[MUSIC]
So there I went out of this shape.

[MUSIC]
I walked down from G to what would

be G7 covering that F chord.

That's an F shape, but
it's essentially G7.

[MUSIC]
Right back into resolving to my C.

So there's a couple things I did there.

I did another little lick that is really
cool to do over the shuffle feel.

[MUSIC]
So what that is is I'm just hitting,

I'm outlining this chord

perfectly, this C shape.

[MUSIC]
So I'm just going one note

ahead of each note of the chord.

So
[MUSIC]

You can use that as a little lick.

Like
[MUSIC]

So you can do that everywhere.

[MUSIC]
Sorry, yeah, yeah.

[MUSIC]
Put a little action on the base note there

to kinda make that speak
a little differently,

but [SOUND] that's a great
lick you can do, too.

So I did another little

bend here where I went
[MUSIC]

So I bent the C note there.

[SOUND] So
[MUSIC]

So that was from the 1 to the 5.

[MUSIC]
And you can go right back up cuz there's

your position.

So these things are great.

[MUSIC]
So that gives you

some ideas on Crazy Arms.

Let's move to the next song.

[MUSIC]

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