ZZ Top - Waitin' For the Bus (Patreon)
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Today's tutorial is how to play "Waitin' for the Bus" by ZZ Top. This one is a ton of fun to play and can be played in two distinct levels. An easy beginner version for everyone and a blistering riff style version that is closer to what Billy Gibbons is playing on his guitar. The A minor riff is based around the A minor pentatonic scale targeting the notes in the scale that are in both the scale and the a minor chord, this is called targeting chord tones and it will make your scale stick to the chord progression more.
Will improve
Elaborate arpeggios
Using riffs and arpeggios for rhtyhm
Octaves
Blues curls
Pull offs
1/16th notes
Related lessons
To improvise use the A minor pentatonic
All 5 shapes - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GBURg0RYij4&t=13s
Exercises to help you master the pentatonic
Shape 1 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E7hEbKjgNe4
Shape 2 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-4-Y_s4rhBg
Turn the scale into music - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5n9mUkgu7UA