{"id":6635,"date":"2015-06-18T23:42:17","date_gmt":"2015-06-19T06:42:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/?p=6635"},"modified":"2025-07-06T15:06:26","modified_gmt":"2025-07-06T22:06:26","slug":"ask-me-no-questions-srv-rake-lick","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/ask-me-no-questions-srv-rake-lick\/","title":{"rendered":"Ask Me No Questions &#8211; SRV Rake Lick"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Fellow BGU&#8217;er and my good friend Lloyd (Paparaptor on the forum) asked me about this particular technique that SRV uses in many places, but it&#8217;s really obvious on this tune he played with Albert King&nbsp;many years ago&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Check it out first, and listen when Stevie takes a solo at about 1:48 seconds in&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"video-plugin-new youtube\" style=\"max-width:100%; width:560px; height:auto; padding-top:0; padding-bottom:0; margin:0 auto;margin:0 auto; border: 0px solid #fff;margin-bottom: 20px;\"><div style=\"width:560px;height:0;  padding-bottom: 56.25%; padding-top:0;\"><iframe width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Odemgv5eLok?wmode=opaque&showinfo=0&amp;autoplay=0&amp;controls=1&amp;modestbranding=0&amp;vq=&amp;rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div><\/div>\n<p>Now even though Lloyd only asked me for the rake part at the very end of that first 8 bar solo, I went ahead and transcribed the whole thing because it&#8217;s a great example of &#8220;less is more&#8221; in soloing. Stevie doesn&#8217;t use a lot, but he uses it well.<\/p>\n<p>Check it out:<\/p>\n<div class=\"video-plugin-new youtube\" style=\"max-width:100%; width:560px; height:auto; padding-top:0; padding-bottom:0; margin:0 auto;margin:0 auto; border: 0px solid #fff;margin-bottom: 20px;\"><div style=\"width:560px;height:0;  padding-bottom: 56.25%; padding-top:0;\"><iframe width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/9v16pToaGl4?wmode=opaque&showinfo=0&amp;autoplay=0&amp;controls=1&amp;modestbranding=1&amp;vq=&amp;rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div><\/div>\n<p>Download the video &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/video\/SRVRakeLick.mp4\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">MP4<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Download the TAB &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/pdf\/SRVRakeLick.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">PDF<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Oh&#8230; by the way&#8230; Lloyd wrote a great article on his experience at Blues Guitar Unleashed Live this year. I meant to send it out but got sidetracked&#8230; you should read it <a href=\"http:\/\/ofwg.net\/?p=267\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>&nbsp;when you have a few minutes, it&#8217;s really great and I think you&#8217;ll be able to relate to quite a bit of it \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fellow BGU&#8217;er and my good friend Lloyd (Paparaptor on the forum) asked me about this particular technique that SRV uses in many places, but it&#8217;s really obvious on this tune he played with Albert King&nbsp;many years ago&#8230; Check it out first, and listen when Stevie takes a solo at about 1:48 seconds in&#8230; Now even [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6635"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6635"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6635\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8917,"href":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6635\/revisions\/8917"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6635"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6635"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6635"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}