Both albums really feature the “jazz guy” side of Roy’s playing!

If you haven’t already, be sure to check out Roy Nichols: The “Country Guy” (Part I.) He was 68. To me, it seems like he sees the “D chord structure” and is playing all around it to create moments of dissonance and resolution. The use of swingin’ lines mixed with chicken’ pickin’ made him stand out more than many of his contemporaries. We asked 40 Black theatermakers for their stories. This was his most exposed guitar. His lines were mostly diatonic to the chord with chromatic passing tones. Check this solo out!!! Change ), You are commenting using your Facebook account. …coming up next…a look at a solo from western swing’s best kept secret: Fill in your details below or click an icon to log in: You are commenting using your WordPress.com account. I thought for years that Roy Nichols played the guitar on this song, but after I released this lesson, I learned that it was recorded by Reggie Young. JavaScript is disabled. Lick 1 is a fill Roy plays in “Today I Started Loving You Again” off “Fightin’ Side of Me”. And that’s just the reason the track selection is so perfect. Anyone have any instrumental Strangers albums ripped from vinyl? His approach was to push the pick further back between the thumb and index finger leaving the tip of the pick sticking out just a little. What makes this lick so catchy is the rhythm and use of a chromatic approach note into the “E shape structure”. He used a flat pick mostly. 40 Black playwrights on the theater industry’s insidious racism. Fender contacted me about doing a Roy Nichols signature guitar, and they wanted to make it like this white Tele. This lesson show cases a couple signature licks that Roy Nichols would play in many of Haggard’s songs. Proposition 14 asks voters to approve $5.5 billion in general obligation bonds for the California Institute for Regenerative Medicine, known as CIRM, for stem cell research. He said, ‘Here, play this thing,’ and handed me his guitar. Nichols was admitted to the hospital on June 30 with a kidney inflammation and bacterial infection and was in intensive care until he died early Tuesday of a heart attack.
Tablature & Jam Tracks For These Lessons Are Available In Members Section. My advice is to take this idea, apply it to another “chord structure”, and experiment with starting on other notes of the pentatonic scale in a pattern! The b7 played over the major triad is a signature Roy Nichols sound. He grew up in the Fresno area, where the family owned and operated a camp for migrant workers. 2) He just plays a line that features the b5 and b13. It is all here. All of these lines can be applied to honky tonk and western swing tunes. for some hot country licks! How to vote. Cloudflare Ray ID: 5e31e724af413687

From there it goes up the triad, skipping the octave, and returns down the arpeggio ending on the b7. Heard MH and tS in Tampa, early '70's at Curtis Hixon Hall. His style was a blend between Junior Barnard and Django Reinhardt. Available on DVD, download, or in the members section.

I hope you enjoy these licks! Roy Nichols, an influential guitar player who for 22 years was a mainstay of country star Merle Haggard's band, died Tuesday at Mercy Hospital in Bakersfield. He also had several "signature… Roy Nichols (October 21, 1932 – July 3, 2001) was an American country music guitarist best known as the lead guitarist for country music legend Merle Haggard's band The Strangers for more than two decades. It’s more like a Roy Nichols Greatest Licks and Solos” lesson. Here it is on one of the Strangers instrumental albums. You can also use this lick in many country songs where the 4 chord goes back to the 1 chord. “Chet Atkins and Roy Nichols were the two most influential guitar players in [the last] century,” Haggard said. Completing the CAPTCHA proves you are a human and gives you temporary access to the web property. Try altering this line around and see what you can come up with by emphasizing the dissonance of the b5 against a major chord. I thought for years that Roy Nichols played the guitar on this song, but after I released this lesson, I learned that it was recorded by Reggie Young. The intro is a chromatic walk down from D to A with a constant D as a pedal tone.

I stole this lick from Roy’s intro into his solo on “Blue Rock”. When I go see a country band play, 9 times out of 10, the guitarist uses the opportunity to solo as a time to insert every hot rod guitar lick he knows (we are all guilty of this!!!). Eventually learning to play guitar and sing just sort of came natural. If you are on a personal connection, like at home, you can run an anti-virus scan on your device to make sure it is not infected with malware. Review: In Netflix’s terrific ‘Forty-Year-Old Version,’ Radha Blank finds art in all the right places. Half step approaches in and out of the chord is a great place to start!

He also used it on the "Fightin' Side of Me" album recorded live in Philadelphia. Your guide to the 2020 election in California. Your IP: 68.66.232.166 I’m about to solo!”. You must log in or register to reply here.
This is a great lick  I stole from Roy’s solo on “Big Bad Bill” off “I Love Dixie Blues”. What issues are on the ballot in California and Los Angeles County.

As I mentioned earlier, clearly Terry loves and respects Roy in a big way. Love Roy!As mentioned, Honky Tonk Night Time Man KILLS. Initially the sound of the lick under the changing chords made me want to learn the lick. “Think ‘ll Just Stay Here And Drink” was a huge hit for Merle Haggard, and has been a classic that every country band has been playing since.

I made a mistake on this guitar lesson. Be sure to check out the complete song lessons I’ve made for other Merle Haggard songs. I’ll be honest, I am not too sure what Roy is trying to imply here. “Honky Tonk Night Time Man” is another great Roy solo to learn. Nichols’s father played the upright bass and Nichols started learning the guitar at the age of 11. Teles obviously, dunno what years. Three years later, Nichols got his first paying job playing weekend dances with Curly Roberts and the Rangers. Born in Chandler, Ariz., Nichols was the eldest in a family of seven children. He was probably best know by his white Tele, which I've been told was a 1957 Tele. Definitely known for his succinct Bakersfield style stuff but he could bring it when he wanted to. Where to vote. The intro to this solo is very simple, yet sounds great on an uptempo song. My friend Bob and I were the only longhairs in the crowd of 10,000 - at the height of the "We don't smoke marijuana in" period. I was on track to a guy in Canada, but it turned out to be the wrong guitar. You may need to download version 2.0 now from the Chrome Web Store. The line starts by going up the C major scale with an added b3 passing tone. On a downstroke, his thumb would slightly mute the string after playing it while his index finger would mute the string on an upstroke. Includes tablature and jam tracks. The band stayed largely intact until 1987, when health problems forced Nichols into retirement. Here are the Los Angeles Times’ editorial board endorsements for president, California ballot measures and more. Friends said a stroke in 1996 cost Nichols the use of his left hand, ending his ability to play guitar. ( Log Out /  Roy Nichols not only contributed a great amount of country guitar vocabulary during his time with Merle Haggard, he also developed a unique voice in western swing. I saw Roy twice with Hag/Strangers in the late 1970s. • Radha Blank’s ‘Forty-Year-Old Version’ on Netflix highlights racism in the theater industry. He has some great lines in this one. His style was a blend between Junior Barnard and Django Reinhardt. Roy Nichols, an influential guitar player who for 22 years was a mainstay of country star Merle Haggard’s band, died Tuesday at Mercy Hospital in Bakersfield. Since then Roy has performed in several rock Bands and tribute acts even had an invitation to audition for the Rock of Ages Musical. From there he finishes with a bluesy lick to get back to the 1 chord. He was known for his guitar technique, a mix of fingerpicking and pedal steel-like bends, usually played on a Fender Telecaster electric guitar. Join the members section now and get countless hours of online guitar instruction! Oops… I made a mistake on this guitar lesson. Change ), Andy Reiss: “Bring it on Down to My House” Solo, Western Swing: Roy Nichols Solo – Ment Morris. All lessons include tablature and jam tracks. He starts on the 3 and plays up the arpeggio in groups of 4 (35b71-5b713-b7135…). The great Casper Rawls, who knew Roy (and also Buck Owens & Don Rich) told me Roy used a light top/heavy bottom set of strings. The Times endorses one incumbent and three newcomers for the Los Angeles Community College District Board of Trustees. Hope you like it! In this example, he plays the same lick in 4 different positions, which ties all the fill lick together, making a sweet sounding fill behind the vocals. In a GP article about Merle and Roy he said his old Tele was a '53 and he used Twin Reverbs. In the early 1960s, Stewart, then a California country music legend, opened a nightclub in Las Vegas and asked Nichols to join him. All lessons include tablature and jam tracks. Lick 5 is a fill I stole from Roy. The full lesson includes all 6 solos and is available on DVD, download and in the members section! In this example, he plays the same lick in 4 different positions, which ties all the fill lick together, making a sweet sounding fill behind the vocals. If you haven’t heard both of Roy’s solos on “Hammin’ it Up”…please click here. All Roy is doing is playing the G pentatonic scale starting on the 3rd out of the “E chord structure”. While this example shows that it is a 5 chord resolving to a 1 chord, you can make this a 1 chord resolving to a 4 chord. Designed by Elegant Themes | Powered by WordPress. A place for family, fans, and bandmates to carry on the memory of one of country musics greatest guitar players. So many country and western swing songs have the chord changes noted in this example. Haggard credits Nichols with jump-starting his own career and playing a key role in developing the distinctive country sound of his band, the Strangers. When Haggard got out of California’s San Quentin Prison in 1960 after doing time for a burglary conviction, he went to see Nichols play at a Las Vegas nightclub, where Nichols shared the stage with country music star Wynn Stewart, Haggard told the Associated Press Tuesday in a telephone interview from his home in Northern California. This will bring the listener’s ear back to the 1 chord. “Because of Roy, my career commenced,” he said. Many of Roy’s solo feature this arpeggio pattern. The twin guitar stuff Roy did with Norm Hamlet (steel) was more swingy than twangy and (iirc) Roy stepped out occasionally in his own jazzy western swing style in concert - and on some recordings. Roy plays a half step pre-bend back and forth to match the unison note of the bend. Lick 2 is an intro to a solo I stole from Roy. There was no immediate information on funeral services. In this example, he plays the same lick in 4 different positions, which ties all the fill lick together, making a sweet sounding fill behind the vocals. This lesson show cases a couple signature licks that Roy Nichols would play in many of Haggard’s songs. Includes tablature and jam tracks.