Jimmy Dillon’s: “Eclectic Electric Guitar Volume II”
is now available!
We went from kind of the purple blues to the bright gold of full-fledged, full-flight rock and roll here. This is a really fun piece. I actually get to play Elvis in Ascension of the Blues in one of the productions and that was really fun. It’s funny how you put on an outfit, you put on a gold guitar and you’re off to the races; get all excited. I want to tell you a little bit about what I was doing. That was kind of a two-beat, what we call a two-beat in the key of A. It had a little slap on it and here’s what basically the target notes I was doing. So that’s just a little — you can follow the tab on that, but it’s just a little A riff. Then you just go to your D string; back to A. Then you go to your E. Now, I should mention, again, we keep coming back to this because these are basics with this kind of stuff. I was using my right hand to dampen the strings to get that tight. You won’t get that if you hit it open. It doesn’t have that same attitude. So that’s that old rock and roll thing. One of the key licks I do in this is this. Now that’s kind of a little Scotty Moore. He was a guitar player for many great rock performers back in the early days of rockabilly in Memphis and that area of the world. Basically what you’re doing is just a two-string… We have approached that in many different ways. So you apply that at the I, the IV and the V chord and you’re home.
More Lessons on Rockabilly Style
Whether or not you’re a blues purist,
it’s good to know about blues guitar
because every other contemporary music
style (Rock, Jazz, Country, Metal, etc)
all came from the blues.
In today’s video clip, I want to share
with you a sampling from one of the
lessons on Jimmy Dillon’s new course:
Eclectic Electric II.
It’s going deep in da blues…
Think of this as a tiny taste of what’s
to come in Jimmy’s new course.
It all goes down on December 5th and
we’re gonna have one of the greatest
deals ever for a new product launch.
Well all right, how you doing out there?
We’re back with Eclectic Electric II.
We’ve changed outfits. I’ve got my kind
of over-the-top outfit going here because
we’re going to get really wild and colorful
with it now. We’re going to get big and rock
and kind of loud and we’re going to have a
lot of fun doing this.
Now, when we talk about Eclectic Electric
guitar, we’re talking about bending different
genres and taking them to places that they
don’t normally go. So when you hear a song
like “Crossroads”, if you hear the original
version of “Crossroads”, of course it’s more
like… More of that kind of Robert Johnson
style. But of course, when that got hybridized
in the Fillmore in — was it ’68 I think that
they recorded “Crossroads” live at the Fillmore,
everything changed.
So I want to talk about how you take a regular
blues progression or a blues rock progression
and then you make it big, you make it
really big. One of the ways we do
that — we all recognize that, right?
But if you speed that up and kind of
put a back-beat to it… Or if you
swing it… You have kind of an R&B
or a swinging uptown jive blues,
whatever.
And then I talked about the great
migration, how people moved — three
million people moved up
the delta all the way to
cities like Chicago to work.
And of course, the thing that
happened is, what was originally
kind of spirituals, very light,
kind of lyrical music — and some of
it was gutbucket, too — it got the
heat and the burning and the pace of
the city and people were working,
shucking steel and doing things
they do in the big city in
Detroit, Chicago and New York.
And so the blues got
electrified, guys like
Muddy Waters and Howlin’ Wolf,
Chess Records. All of a sudden you
had stuff like that going on or you
had kind of a… Stuff like that
or Bo Diddley. All that kind
of new music was happening
in Chicago at the time,
just wonderful stuff, Buddy Guy.
But you’ve got to start in the beginning
and understand that the blues was
the first music that was really
indigenous to North America, especially
to the South and how it immigrated to
other cities and how that was affected.
But I just wanted to mention that
because part of the look that we
have here and part of the things
we’re exploring in Eclectic Electric
definitely have the roots in the blues
and then they’ve kind of traveled on
and become all these different
varied — it’s almost like a tree
that grew and all these different
beautiful kinds of music
came out of it.
I can tell you from touring the world
that American music, American Roots
music is incredibly well respected
and embraced and loved all over
the place.
outlining some of HIS most important influences for
Electric Guitar. Please note its *his* favorites, not
necessarily an “encyclopedic” tree
CLICK HERE TO GET A FULL SIZE VERSION OF THE TREE
Also, we recorded a cool teleseminar about this tree specifically… here’s a recording of it.
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This is sample lesson from Eclectic Electric II, set to be released on December 5.
It’s part of a lesson that Jimmy calls “What’s old is New”… A classic Eric
Clapton tune (Old Love) is decoded and Jimmy shows us not only the chords
but how to spice it up with some Hendrix-style embellishments. To top it all
off, Mark Karan makes a special appearance and shares some uber-tasty lead
vibes. Check it out!
And get ready to hop onboard the Eclectic Electric train! Coming Very soon!
Okay, I want to decode a little bit of
what I just played. It’s kind of a mixture
of an A minor with a little bit of
a Hendrix flavor.
I started out with… Which is one
of those licks that you hear a lot
both in R&B and in some of Jimi Hendrix’s
music. I started with a high A, down to a G
and then I did an A minor form. Now,
what I did do on this
is — the chord changes
I want to show you are A minor.
So I did a little lick coming in.
Cool little lick on the bass.
Starting with a low E and leading up
to a G, an A and a C. So that gets
you into the pattern, which is A
minor and then F and then a G
suss and then back to the lick. Then I did a…
Now, you’ll notice I did that little
climb from the F. I went A minor to F
and then I did — this is definitely
a Hendrix move here, which is… He
was very fond of those hammer-ons.
So basically when you go from your A minor
to your F you can jump up to this position F, here,
do a little hammer-on and then do a chromatic climb.
So obviously I’m just playing a simple…
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Fun and Easy Funk Riff Lessons
for the past couple years (excluding
me of course HAHA)…
… has been Jimmy Dillon.
Actually I just got off the phone
with Jimmy — he’s excited about
beating out Sammy Hagar for this
year’s Milley award.
I guess they are doing a big
gig this weekend to celebrate
with all the local hotshots
(Sammy, Bob Weir, etc)…
I’M excited because we’re coming
out with the next Jimmy Dillon
product: Eclectic Electric II.
Here’s a taste of what’s in store:
Hi, I’m Jimmy Dillon. Welcome to
Eclectic Electric II. In this product
we’re going to delve into a lot of the
stuff we did in the first time around and
we’re going to go even deeper into some
really fun grooves and I’m going to show
you how I get the sounds I get.
We’ll get into some rock stuff. We’re going
to revisit Jimi Hendrix again,
because that one was a big hit the
first time out and I love playing that kind
of stuff. But mostly I’m going to give you
tools that you can use, really simple devices
and tools that you can use in your own
playing to get the same sounds I’m working
with here and ultimately find your own
true voice, which is what our goal
is here. So let’s get on with it.