Example 8: "Icy Road"

- Here's example eight.…I'll play it against the backing track.…I'll play it once.…The first four bars will be a turnaround…and I'll count it in.…Let's give it a listen.…(blues guitar music)…One, two, three, four, one.…(blues guitar music)…All right, let's break that down.…

So, double stops, two notes played simultaneously.…But, check it out.…The two notes are on strings three and one,…and you play them at the ninth fret…with fingers two and three.…Now, check this out, though.…You've got a middle note in there.…That isn't written,…so you have to find some way to play these two notes…on the outside and mute the middle note…using one downstroke.…

That means you're actually playing the middle note,…but the way I mute it is this.…I use the meat on the flesh of my middle finger…to kind of arch my middle finger down here…and mute the string.…That way, I can play string three.…I can go through string two, but there's no sound,…and then I go through string one.…So I strum down through all three strings.…

Then I'm going to start with a slide,…