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This is a sample lesson from the Secret Guitar Teacher web site (see link above). The lesson is part of an Intermediate Level course called 'From Blues to Jazz'.

Here's the abridged transcript:

A great way to learn to improve your soloing technique and style is to take a close look at some of the solos played by great guitarists. For this lesson I decided to work through the first verse of the solo played by Duane Allman - it's the first solo on the recording.

Here's the first couple of licks. I play this using the fourth position blues scale pattern. Notice that we reference it to the 7th fret as if it was in the key of E. This is because the blues scale in E gives us the Country scale in G, the major key of this song.

Let's take this a chunk at a time. Over the G9 chord we play
...that's three fast hits on the note at the 8th fret on the B string then two full-tone bends on the 10th fret at speed... Then as the chord moves up a semitone to Ab9 he reflects this change by bending up to the full tone and then back.

This is a very interesting case of 'stretching' the scale by bending a string a semitone further than normal to accommodate an unusual chord.

Then we move up to the top string to play a new lick over the G9. The first lick is repeated then it's into a prebend..notice the little letters 'PB' above the tab.

The 11 in brackets tells us this is a halftone bend - it means play at fret ten, but bend to make it sound as if played at fret 11...

So that whole phrase again in slow motion ...and at full speed.

As we make the next change to the two bars of C9, this scale pattern can be temporarily abandoned and we concentrate in on a lick based on the C7 chord.

This is where knowing your chord formulas really pays off. Let's take a quick look...The formula for a 7th chord is 1 3 5 b7 which means that the C7 takes it's notes from the first, third, fifth and flatted seventh steps of the C Major scale.

The formula for a 9th chord is 1 3 5 b7 9 - so it is simply the same notes as the C7 but with one extra note added - the ninth note of the c major scale - D -

As C7s and C9ths are pretty interchangeable in Jazz and Blues, you can play a lick based on either whenever you see a C7 or C9 in a sequence.

So in this case we start on the b7th, the Bb note on the 6th fret top string...
...and using the fourth note in C - the F at the 6th fret on the B string as a passing note we land on the G - the fifth note in the key of C... and bend it up a tone and a half to the flat 7th the Bb.

OK. So we're halfway through the verse. This might be a good time to go back over what we have covered so far and consolidate. I find it takes many times of repeating a solo with this much detail in, to get it down.

So we'll take a break at this point. Once you feel ready, please join me in part 2 of this lesson where we'll continue to work through the rest of this solo verse lick by lick.

See you then