Today I’m going to talk about combining harmonics with certain chord positions. Harmonics can be found all over the guitar, and it’s something u should experiment with when you have time.

Today we are talking about the “Mary Had a Little Lam” lick that was first created by Buddy Guy back in 1967. He had an album called, Man and the Blues, which I Iove, and it’s an album that influenced me and a lot of other people including Stevie Ray Vaughan.

What we are playing here is a rockabilly rhythm with a chromatic type run as part of a pattern. You can flatpick here, which has its own flavor, and what you get is a quick upstroke with that old timey feel.

In this lesson I’m going to look at open string harmonies and pull offs that can be combined with descending double stop runs.

Getting to know these positions is another one of those critical “building blocks” you need on the way to knowing all the correct “archetypes” of the guitar. First, we work on them in the open chord forms, and then see how they are as we use partial forms of them up the neck in closed forms.

This is a study in one of the true classic Chicago Blues licks of all time, and it’s one that steps slightly out of the realm of your typical 12-bar blues phrases.