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| Chops: Advanced beginner to early intermediate Theory: Beginner Lesson Overview: • Learn the basics of boogie-woogie guitar styles. • Play Danny Gatton-inspired riffs with hybrid picking. • Develop independence between fingers on your picking hand. |
This month’s lesson will take a close look at Danny Gatton's boogie-woogie piano grooves on guitar. Boogie-woogie is a style of blues usually played at fast tempos. Its main characteristic is the repetitive bass line. This is usually combined with stabs or soloing in the right hand.
First, let's play the bass figure in the key of A in the open position shown in Fig. 1. Use the pick strokes written in the example and make sure to be consistent with them. It will make it easier when we combined this with the stabs in the next example.
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In Fig. 2 we'll add in the chord stabs. I'm using my pinky to barre across the first and second strings at the fifth fret. With your picking hand grab these strings with your middle and ring finger and pluck. It's important not to let these ring. Once you have plucked them release the tension in the pinky so the ringing stops. Go slow and calculate each movement. There's a lot to think about in this one.
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Fig. 3
is a movable version in the key of D major. I'm going to start by barring my index finger across the fifth fret starting on the fifth string. Then I'm placing my middle finger on the seventh fret fourth string. This frees up my ring and pinky fingers to play the bass line.Download Example 3 Audio...
Next, we will add the chord stabs. In Fig. 4 we have the boogie pattern along with the chords on the upper strings. Your barre finger will now have to release tension after the stabs to make sure they don't continue to ring.
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Finally, we have Fig. 5, which combines all the examples together to create a cool rhythm part over a blues in the key of A. Although I might sound like a broken record, start each example at a slow tempo in order to internalize the pattern. Once you feel comfortable, increase the tempo and move the pattern around to different keys.Download Example 5 Audio...
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Theory: Intermediate
Lesson Overview:
• Improve your hybrid picking.
• Understand how to move ideas to different string sets.
• Learn how to incorporate organ riffs into your guitar grooves.
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If you’re a regular reader of this lesson series, you may notice a slight format change this time around. Rather than look at a technique or concept, let’s check out the unfathomably talented Danny Gatton.
I’m a huge Gatton fan and in recent weeks I’ve been reading Ralph Heibutzki’s fantastic biography Unfinished Business–The Life & Times of Danny Gatton, so the subject is hot on my mind and his albums have been on constant rotation for a while.
Who then is this Danny Gatton chap? Often touted as “the world’s greatest unknown guitar player,” Gatton was born and raised in the D.C. area. Growing up in the ’50s, he was exposed to everything from rockabilly and bluegrass to jazz and country music. From Les Paul to Roy Nichols, James Burton to Chet Atkins, Gatton absorbed it all, becoming a true master of many styles.
Gatton would constantly perform in and around D.C. in various groups, and despite making pilgrimages to Los Angeles, New York, and Nashville, he always felt better at home. He was content to be a local legend and apparently didn’t feel an urge to tour around the country to take things to the next level.
Aside from two albums on Elektra, Gatton was on small labels for most of his career. Nonetheless, his recorded output was strong and such albums as Redneck Jazz, Unfinished Business, New York Stories, and 88 Elmira Street are fantastic examples of his broad taste in music.
Sadly Gatton’s life was dogged with issues and his seemingly chronic depression and mood swings eventually led to suicide at his home in 1994. To this day, the causes aren’t fully understood and while there are theories, I think it’s best to remember Gatton for what he did, rather than why he stopped doing it.
Because Gatton covered so much musical ground, I’ve decided to break our lesson into two installments. This month we’ll take a look at some of his fantastic rhythm guitar ideas, and then next time we’ll investigate some of his incredible soloing techniques.
One of Gatton’s strongest musical traits was his ability to incorporate non-guitar influences into his playing. In this first lick, you’ll see how organ players affected Gatton’s comping. If you listen to his rhythm playing on tunes like “Funky Mama,” from the album Relentless with organ virtuoso Joey DeFrancesco, or just watch Gatton’s instructional videos, you’ll hear the organ connection.
To execute ideas like this, you’ll need to feel comfortable with hybrid picking. This right-hand technique lets you pluck several strings at once, rather than strumming across them. Gatton was a phenomenal hybrid picker. It’s well documented he was also a highly skilled banjo player, so right-hand finger dexterity is one of his most impressive skills. Rather than using thumb and finger picks, he simply translated all these skills to flatpick and fingers—his use of banjo rolls could take years to investigate.
Looking at Fig. 1, you can see a very defined upper and lower voice. Notice how the bass shuffles along below chord stabs—plucked by the middle, ring, and pinky fingers— punctuate the phrase.
The organ influence is based around the use of moving triads over a static bass note. We are implying G7, G13sus, and G7sus chords, but basically we are moving Bb, C, and F major triads over the G bass note. As an aside, I recommend fretting that bass note with your thumb, so you can reach back to the lower frets to grab the 1st-position F triad. I’ve also included a slow audio version so you can work out the finer details. This one may need some time to master because your fingers and pick act independently and come together to make one finished product.
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To take this idea full circle, I’ve written out a complete 12-bar blues (Fig. 2) using this idea. Fortunately, when we move to the C7 and D7 chords, we simply take the pattern up the neck and play it in a new location. There’s also a more extended I-VI-II-V turnaround going from G7 to E7#5#9 (a cool little voicing pinched from Scotty Anderson) to A7#5b9 then D9. To get this closer to the sound of an organ, I’m using Gatton’s trick of using both pickups on my Telecaster, rolling back the tone, and then running through a vibe pedal.