Example 3: "The Turnpike"

- Alright here we go, example number three.…(jazzy music)…One two three four one.…

Let's break this down.…Thriving on a rife, it's one phrase that moves up…through each chord, let's learn the phrase.…Okay, in the key of G, we're going to start out…with a bar across the fifth fret on strings three and two.…Then I'm going to bar across the third fret.…Strings three and two and immediately hammer on…to the fourth fret of the third string…using my index finger.…

It's a grace note, doesn't really have any time value.…And then you're going to go down to G…or the root on the fourth string.…But now check out the rhythm.…It's a two-bar phrase, the first one does not start on one,…it starts on beat two, so it's one, two, three, four, one.…The second measure of the two-bar phrase starts on beat one.…

One, two, three, four.…So it makes it sound a little bit…flipping over itself there.…Let me play the whole thing for you, show you.…One, two, three, four, one.…(guitar strums)…And that repeats, move that same assembly…up to the four chord in the eighth position.…