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Description: Find hundreds more lessons, videos and tutorials at the Secret Guitar Teacher site! Sign up now for a free 30 day trial secretguitarteacher.com In this video, Nick completes his analysis of the guitar playing of Johnny Winter on the classic track Memory Pain. Here is the abridged script: Completing my response to the request from Jim in San Francisco, in this lesson, I am going to analyse the guitar part Johnny Winter plays over the second half of the first verse of Memory Pain. I should stress that if you want to learn to play the whole of this classic guitar tune, there is a brilliant lesson on it on YouTube by a guy calling himself Tokabilitor. youtu.be/-cao3OS8Eu4 Apart from a great level of accuracy, in working out every note that Johnny Winter plays, this is the only guitar video on YouTube featuring a pet dear that actually starts licking the player’s hand later in the video as he plays! I’m not going to try and compete with that! What Jim has asked me to do is explain the music theory behind the licks and chords Johnny Winter played on this tune. So here goes… This is a nice simple trick you can do over any 7th chord – finding the 5th and flat 7th note relative to the root and just bouncing between them as fast as physically possible so in this case as we are playing over the C7 we are using the notes G (the 5th in the key of C) and Bb …the flat 7 in the key of C. The next two bars are simply working the C Minor pentatonic scale in the third position. Here’s the tab for that bit… Now we come to the change to the G7 chord and he switches back to rhythm guitar, using a nice Jazz-Players’ chord substitution, the Bm7b5 chord, also known as the half-diminished chord. This substitution is easy to understand if we take a close-up look at the diatonic series of chords produced by harmonising the scale of C Major… Listen to the opening bars of the Allman Brothers performance of Stormy Monday at Filmore East to hear another great example of this substitution. The Bm7b5 chord is linked chromatically down to the F9 used as a substitute for F7 in this case and then we are back into the same two-bar riff as used earlier in the song over the F7 chord . I covered this in the last lesson, but here’s the tab in case you missed that. The next bar takes us back to the C7 chord with Johnny Winter playing a lick that we could describe as being based on the C9 chord. The next bar is really a repeat of an earlier idea that cropped up in the intro and is covered in the previous lesson This brings us to the final two bars of the verse … This is pure C minor pentatonic in the first If you would like to improve your grasp of the music theory that helps you understand the formation of the licks played by the great guitar players, then I can recommend our 3-part Guitar Music Theory Course. Go to Secretguitarteacher.com and sign up for our thirty-day free trial membership to get started on that right away. See you all again soon.