Star Wars Cantina Band Guitar Lesson; Part 1 Video Lecture | Guitar: Become a Pro (English) - Music

so there's this cool low-budget indie
film out there that's gaining a lot of
popularity you may have heard of it it's
called Star Wars has a lot of great
music from the immortal John Wayne but
by far the greatest piece of music in
the entire Star Wars canon is the
cantina song so we're going to do a
guitar lesson on how to play the cantina
song this isn't like an official
transposition of anything because it's
kind of like a horn song so uh this is
just near what I can pick out how it
would sound on guitar so I just kind of
made up a version of it slowed it down a
little bit and made it a duet because we
need more guitar duets in the Star Wars
world so here's what's gonna like
so we're going to break this into two
parts the lead part and the rhythm part
with the chords and each part is going
to be two sections of four parts each so
let's jump right into it this is going
to be the lead part first right so we're
going to start by using just these first
two frets is going to be the tenth fret
and we're going to use the B string and
the E string and it doesn't really
matter what fingers use I think the best
most efficient way to do it is using
your ring finger on the B string and
your pinky on the high E string and the
first part of this section is going to
sound like this so let's break this down
one but right I'm just going back
bouncing back and forth between the B
string and the E string and notice the
way to kind of make it sound like this
isn't going this
I'm kind of choking each note so I'm
getting like a and not a sustained and I
kind of you know gives that that bite to
it that signature kind of sound to it so
again we're going back forth B ii-v ii-v
EB 9 10 so that part is going to be the
beginning of most of these actual
sessions right so again one more time
and then after that we're going to jump
right back to your middle finger and
we're going to stay in a position where
your hand right so I'm not going to be
moving around we're gonna stay in this
one position 9 10 9 8 but instead of
thinking of the frets think of your
fingers right so it's just middle ring
middle index and the reason we're
thinking of our fingers instead of frets
is because we can move this as a shape
so middle ring middle index and then do
the same thing but starting on the
seventh fret of the B string all right
so I'm doing this one move and then
repeating it back here and then ending
with your middle finger up on the g
string
right so okay so that's part one now
let's go into part two it starts the
exact same way but now here's where we
change it we're gonna go to 8b that
should be easy to remember bb8 alright
so we go to APA so we're noon here
I'm hitting this twice on a seven eight
notice now when I go from here I'm
sliding my index finger from 8 to 7 and
then hammering down with my middle
finger the reason I'm doing that because
the next thing we do is go down to the
high E string er 8 6 you can do it as a
pull on if you want I'm actually playing
the notes but whatever
and then because I've kept my position
in tact here I can go eight two six
eight to ten eight all right so that's
part two now
part three yes well we start out the
exact same way same thing is the first
two parts now we're going to change it
so we go up to the 8th fret on the high
E string you can do this little
pentatonic thing backwards so 80 twice
10 b8b it 10 g 7g alright then the next
thing we're going to do the part four is
going to be so these are all going to be
one fret slides I'm gonna start with my
ring finger on the sixth fret of the g
string slide from six to seven do the
same thing but back fret down a string
five to six high string four to five and
that puts my pinkie in position to hit
eight on the B string so one more time
in the end here the finishing touch
we're gonna slide with your ring finger
to 11 on the high E string and we're
using your ring finger because then you
can go right back to your middle finger
and then on the same string on high E
string so 11 10 up a string B it 9 10
and then end with your middle finger on
12 right so here all four parts again
one
departure part three into part four so
that's it for the first section of this
and now we're going to go into the
second section but we're going to
transition doing kind of a chromatic
backwards thing so we just finish up on
this so I'm doing is I'm walking into
this chord everyone to actually go into
like a like a D minor chord up here
where you go so instead of just jumping
we're actually going to kind of walk
this to make a little transition into
the next section so all i am on the g
string then 10 10 9 8 and then i'm going
into this kind of chord voicing right
and we're thinking of this as a full D
minor Barre board but we're just using
the bottom 3 string so I'm getting v e6
b 7g right you can kind of stay in this
for the next four parts of the second
section so I'm going where I'm hitting
it with my pick or your finger however
you want to do it the bottom two string
so I'm getting five e and six video I'm
getting both of those and then I'm
hitting a bit g-string part of that
voicing I'm going back to be an e right
so two strings one string two strings
and I'm kind of rhythmically just
hitting two muted strokes just to kind
of keep the timing
okay so I'm doing this twice again the
third time I'm just going back to the
fourth fret and sliding to five now if
you want you can keep the shape intact
and just reach and slide or if that's
too much for you if you can't do that
just do this all right so I'm sliding
back and then crawling up the chord
shape right so it's going to be the
first section so have a second time you
do it it's gonna be really similar now
we're gonna change it so the only thing
that's different in the second part for
the first part is instead of walking
back the board we're gonna take your
pinky to hit the B string right there on
the eighth fret and then the g string on
the fifth fret with your pinky your
finger or whichever fingers you wanna
use all right
now the third part is exactly the same
as the first part and then the fourth
part you're gonna take this exact same
shape notice how my fingers are in a
line kind of like a staircase down each
finger goes up a string down to front
right I'm gonna take the same shape move
the whole thing up a string and back a
fret so now my ring finger is rooted on
8g alright and we're actually gonna
almost kind of like our pezzi to play
straight up the staircase one two three
I'm gonna add by pinky now some people
might be more comfortable instead of
using your thank you
reaching your ring finger from eight to
nine but the other times you know stay
the same so one two three one two three
so after this after this kind little
courtship the room we're gonna jump to
the high string for five to the B string
Korea and then we're gonna go back and
slide into which is the first way we
ended the first section right so after
this for e we're gonna slide all the way
to 11 10 9 10 B string and with your
middle finger on this note right here
which is an F so if you notice the the
first part of the video I ended it on a
chord right so now this chord right here
is actually an F chord now it's voiced
as an a major chord so if you're
thinking of an a major chord here you
just take the same voice and walk it all
the way hey hey sharp B C C sharp d
sharp e right so f