This "Spotlight Lick" is brought to you from Rock Bottom Music's Aiken South Carolina locations manager, Ken Gabriel. Ken is an accomplished player and plays currently with the band Palmatto Groove and is a former guitar player for James Brown. Palmetto Groove has a release coming out in the next month or so on KHP records. His lick is a chickin pickin lick based in D. Make your d major shape but leave the high E string open. You want to use your pick for the bass notes and pluck the higher string with your middle and ring fingers. As you move to the different bass notes make sure you keep the original D major shape going on. The tuning on the video is set at A=430. So make sure to change your tuner setting or just catch the first open d note and tune by ear. This is a complex lick so start slow and build up speed. If the hybrid picking proves too much at first just use your fingers only, thenbuild up to the pick/finger hybrid. Check out the video at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wQ4fQuHG8i0&feature=channel_video_title
check out more of Ken and his music at http://www.reverbnation.com/kengabriel as usual click on tab and it will get bigger
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