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This is the sixth lick in the style of Buddy Guy. This, once again, is around our Am Pentatonic Scale. Let's take a bit of a look at it.

So, we start off with our third finger bending up the G on the seventh fret ... full tone bend ... and we've got our double stop down here where we are playing obviously a double stop, which is our two notes together on the fifth fret, that's our B and E string with our first finger ... playing a triplet ... one and ah ... repeating that five times ...

Third finger now goes onto our G string once again, and above it we have our A note third fret of the D string ... what I tend to do there is just flatten that third finger ... coming back to my D, so it is ... without the movement ...

First finger down onto the C note which is on the fifth fret of my G string ... third finger on the A note which is the seventh fret of the D string ... and back with a bit of vibrato on that final C note there to end my triplet ...

Then follow it up with an E note on the seventh fret of my A string. Moving down chromatically, which is one fret to an E flat ... once again chromatically to my D ... and I grab the octave D, which is on the G string, on the seventh fret to finish, and once again, a little bit of vibrato on that final note ...

Let's take a look at the left and right hand ...

With my right hand I'm sort of picking all down strokes on the triplets ... and from here on end, I'm playing alternate picking ...

Well, that pretty much takes care of lick number six in the style of Buddy Guy. Play along with a nice little backing track in the key of A, have a lot of fun, and we'll see you next time.