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Hideaway Guitar Lesson (Freddie King Blues Guitar) – Part 6

Hide Away Chords

You only need to know three chords to play along with “Hide Away”. Those chords are E7, A7, and B7.

Once you get those shapes down try plugging them into a 12-bar blues progression. To start, just strum once on each chord shape and count to 4 in each bar. (Hint: In the blues it’s very important to make sure you spend the correct amount of time on each chord in the progression.)

E7 (4 bars)
A7 (2 bars)
E7 (2 bars)
B7 (1 bar)
A7 (1 bar)
E7 (1 bar)
B7 (1 bar)
A lot of guitarists like to breeze over this, but make sure you get this part down. You want to internalize the progression and be able to play it without thinking.

How to Sound like Freddie King

King played a number of different guitars throughout his career but he is often most associated with a cherry red Gibson ES-345. Now this guitar is a semi-hollow guitar with humbucker pickups. However on the front of his album Let’s Hide Away and Dance Away with Freddy King, he is seen with a Gibson Gold Top Les Paul with P90 pickups. This is what was used on his early records which included some of his most famous instrumentals like ‘Hide Away‘ and ‘San-Ho-Zay‘.

Obviously as mentioned above a huge part of his sound is in the licks and riffs that he plays, plus his unusual playing technique of fingerstyle with a thumbpick and a metal fingerpick.

If you want to get a sound like King, a semi-hollow Gibson guitar and leaning more on the bridge pickup for a biting tone is a great place to start.

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