In this lesson, we're going to take a look at the first part of Chuck solo, his first solo in the song promised land in the key of C. What I like about this is the way that he plays the double stops over the chords as he as the song changes chords. It's a typical three chord progression, but the timing is a little different. He only stays on the four chord for a couple measures and then goes right to the five. So I mean, let me play the part that I'm talking about and then we'll we'll take it apart. Something like that. So we're starting out and the song goes like this.
Let me just play the rhythm part for you. So you can see the chord changes See how it just goes to the right to the G. So that's what he's playing over. So when the song is over the wire, he's playing this leg, which is out of the a position. See? He does it again. So the first thing I'm climbing from the a shape see at the fifth fret.
It sounds like it gets more than one string there. So I'm picking double stops from the fifth fret to the seventh fret, back to the fifth fret. And then I'm going into this C double stop at the eighth and ninth fret. So it's like this. Slides sorry, he slides back down. He's gonna come back.
Let me play it in context. Something like that. And then when the song goes over the app, he's gonna go to this and he's playing over the second position f bar chord. So I've got my first finger on the eighth fret of the first string, ring finger on the 10th fret, and he's not playing it like that with the quick up and down strokes, which is what I always thought he was, he's just doing downstroke sounds like this. And that sounds to me like he's only playing downstrokes. Then right away, the song is gonna shift to the five or the G. So he just takes that shape moves it up to the 10th and 12th frets something like that.
So the whole thing He's gonna do this, which we learned before when we were doing this sliding double stops on the second and third string. So let me play that whole thing for you slowly and then back into the song. So as the song changes, so over the sea, he's playing those when he gets over the app. He's playing that when it goes to the G. He's just moving. Then to go from the five back to the one. He's using that so it's kind of interesting how he moves the double stops over the courts.
So that is lesson number 84. Some licks from toe first solo in Promised Land now when it gets to the next couple solos he does variations on that same idea. So take what I showed you there and see if you can figure out the next couple of solos in the in the song