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Way Up High!

 

When you really wanna "tear it up" it works really well playing the familiar pattern of the blues scale UP AN OCTAVE! You can play the same licks and they will have a very different and cool sound. You will most likely have to consider some alternative fingering, because the frets are so small up there. Once I've shown you how to find this pattern, we'll take turns playing four bars with the backing track.

Anders Mouridsen
Instructor Anders Mouridsen
Tutorial:
Make Music With The Notes You Know
Styles:
Blues
Difficulty:
print notation download lesson open guitar tuner
Way Up High! song notation
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Questions & Answers

1 year ago
Hi, in measure 13 of the notation (2nd measure with backing track), what does "S.H." mean?
Josh Workman 11 months ago

Hi, that means "string harmonic." It's just basically a harmonic that occurs naturally when you lightly touch the 17th fret on any string. If you need help with playing harmonics, check this out: https://www.guitartricks.com/lesson/14118 Notice that the harmonic at the 17th fret is the same as the 5th but one octave higher.