Description
The title says it all: this is real chicken pickin' for sure! It can be a fun little lick as long as you don't overuse it.
This one has been done so many different ways so you may want to add something to it each time you play it. Some pickers mute and play the 4th string to make it cluck a few more times. The bend is the same in all of them no matter how you do the other part. It's a little over a whole step, but not quite another half step up. Remember to mute it when you get it to pitch.
Palm muting is really what makes this lick cluck. You can work on it without muting, but it won't have the cluckin' sound without it.
I used to use this lick when we played a song called "Chicken Truck" by John Anderson. You may find somewhere else to throw it in, too. Have fun with it.
As I mentioned in the first lesson, there are chicken pickers in every genre of music. They're pickin' the same licks and using these same techniques. The licks in this tutorial are useful whether you play country, blues, rock, or metal. When you use the musical alphabet you don't just know a few licks, you know all of them with any chord.
I call it chicken pickin' whenever I use any of these concepts and was honored to learn them from some legendary players. I'm also pleased that you're learning them to help keep the legends alive.
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