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While he never became famous to the general public, you can find his name mentioned in just about every interview with current country guitar players.Gattons entire giant bag of tricks would be impossible to cover in a short lesson so I focused on some of his more traditional playing ideas.The lesson will take you through 5 licks over a 12 bar blues in E.The pick plays the D string while the middle and ring fingers play the double stops.
I mute the D string slightly with my palm throughout this idea. The D string notes are mainly rhythmic and muting them helps the melodic double stops stand out more. The G string is then pre-bent up a whole step while the B string remains fretted. This lick sounds more difficult than it actually is because of the speed. Use hybrid picking with the pick again taking the D string and the fingers taking the G and B strings. Danny Gatton uses a lot of the repetitive ideas in his playing. In a longer solo, he might repeat the first bar much longer or even move it through the chord progression. I play this using the same hybrid picking as the previous licks. The basic pattern for the lick uses 5 sixteenth notes between every slide.
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