“A Change is Gonna Come” Motown/Soul guitar lesson. Double stops & advanced chord fills. Sam Cooke

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Today’s lesson is a big one! 30 minutes of chord based licks and double stop fills in that Motown, Soul and Blues style synonymous with Stax, Muscle Shoals, Steve Cropper, Curtis Mayfield, Cornell Dupree and Jimi Hendrix. We even chuck in a couple of Bill Frisell tricks along the way to jazz things up a touch.

The powerful classic “A Change is Gonna Come” by Sam Cooke lends us it’s chord progression for us to use as our training ground for applying all of these rhythm fills.

As always, stick around til the end for gear talk!

⏱️TIMESTAMPS⏱️
00:00 – Performance
02:45 – Introduction
03:29 – Overview of the chord progression
04:11 – Lesson materials
04:26 – 12/8 Rhythm Feel
05:27 – Tonal command!
06:27 – A section (Verse 1)
08:39 – Gospel I to IV trick plus looper
10:04 – B section (Verse 2)
12:49 – ii-I trick!
13:29 – Full scale of first inversion triads!
14:52 – C section (Verse 3)
18:48 – D section (Bridge)
20:44 – Minor 9th chords; pretty or gritty?!
21:28 – Ribot examples!
24:33 – Sixth to Ninth triad tricks over Dominant chords!
25:30 – D section recap
25:56 – E section (Verse 4)
26:27 – Bill Frisell minor ii-V trick!
27:00 – Subbing Am7b5 for Eb major
28:29 – Tritone sub
28:54 – Rare Major 9th chord voicing
29:11 – Another Frisell trick!
29:55 – Tone Talk!
31:10 – Sign-off!

Videos referenced in this lesson;

Soul/Motown lead study;

All three of my Marc Ribot studies;

“People Get Ready” soul/blues/motown study (2 parter!);

Gear used in this video;
Gibson es335 (63 reissue)
Emprize Falcon amp
Browne Amps Carbon overdrive pedal
Universal Audio OX – amp top box
Universal Audio Apollo Twin X
Logic Pro
Universal Audio plugins

Sony ZVE-10 camera
Neewer Desktop Tripod
Final Cut Pro

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Alex 🙂

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