on the album Ma Melodie.... this is a dutch inspired lick (stochelo plays something similar at the end of his first chorus of minor swing on the bireli DVD, he also played this at 3:14:04 pm on the 14th of December, 1995)
triplets throughout
e-8-7-6-------------------------------------7-[12] harmonic-------------------
b--------9-6------------------------------9--------------------
g-------------7---------------------7-10--------------------------
d---------------8p7-6---------6-9-------------------------------------
a-----------------------8-6-7------------------------------------
e----------------------------------------------------------------
starts on beat 1 , ends on beat 3 of next measure
Comments
how it works metrically , and how it is derived harmonically on the guitar
1: metrically, understand where it starts and ends
2: figure out the shape it is coming from... in this case it s
6 8 6 7 9 6 Bb7
x 7 9 7 9 7 E7
once you got that down , you can start looking for rhythmic/melodic variations....
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