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CONTENTS

Chicken Pickin’

FIGURE 1a: “Choking the string” using hybrid picking

FIGURE 1b: A major pentatonic in second position

FIGURE 2: A major pentatonic lick with chromatic passing tones

FIGURE 3: Hybrid picking with E blues scale

FIGURE 4: “Banjo roll”-style picking

FIGURE 5: Hybrid picking with A blues scale

FIGURE 6a: Oblique bends with hybrid picking

FIGURE 6b: A major hexatonic with bends

FIGURE 7: More hybrid picking with A blues scale

FIGURE 8: Chicken pickin’ through a chord progressionFIGURE 9: Complex chicken-picked oblique bends

FIGURE 10: Chicken pickin’ with oblique bends and vibrato

FIGURE 11: A minor pentatonic scale and melody

FIGURE 12: A major pentatonic scale and melody

FIGURES 13a & b: A minor and major scale licks

FIGURE 14: Oblique bends in A major pentatonic

FIGURE 15a: Banjo-style/oblique bend riff  in A

FIGURE 15b: Banjo-style/oblique bend riff  in G

Double-Stops

FIGURE 1a: Double-stops with A root note through two octaves

FIGURE 1b: Major and minor seconds

FIGURE 2a: I7-IV7-V7 progression in E

FIGURE 2b: E Mixolydian mode

FIGURE 3a: E Mixolydian on the 1st string against low E pedal

FIGURE 3b: E Mixolydian on the 2nd string against low E pedal

FIGURE 3c: E Mixolydian on the 3rd string against low E pedal

FIGURES 4a & b: E Mixolydian thirds on G and B strings

FIGURE 5a: Double-stop melody in classic R&B/blues styleFIGURES 5b–e: Moving E Mixolydian double-stops up the fretboard

FIGURES 6a & b: Applying double-stop shapes to single-note lines

FIGURE 7: Transposing double-stop melodies through a 12-bar blues progression

FIGURES 8a & b: E Mixolydian sixths

FIGURE 9: Harmonized double-stop melodies, à la the Allman Brothers

FIGURE 10: Hammered double-stops, à la Jimi Hendrix

FIGURES 11 & 12: Double-stops, à la Metallica

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