Can someone help me out with this double-stop lick?

[eryque]

Can someone help me out with this double-stop ascending thirds lick? I don't know if I'm describing it right with my limited vocabulary, but you all know the scale. It's the one that Steve cropper uses as fills in almost every Otis Redding song, and it's the lick for "Brown Eyed Girl". It starts with this form and goes all the way up the neck, if you know what you're doing.

Jordan, you showed it to me at Mikey's once, and I promptly forgot everything you told me!

--0----2---4----
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--1----2---4----
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So where does it go from here?

[stevieboy]

Those are 6ths not 3rds. (If you put the root on the bottom and played the same notes they'd be thirds) You're just playing an E major scale, starting at the root or one on the E string, and on the third on the G string string. So just stay in the major scale and keep it going all the way up.

E string 0 2 4 5 7 9 11 12
G string 1 2 4 6 8 9 11 13

Of course, you don't have to stay completely with the major scale. For example, you can flat the seventh so the top two double stops would be

E 10 12
G 11 13

It doesn't sound quite right when you play it as a scale, but in licks it fits a lot of the time for example descending

16 14 12 10
16 14 13 11

pick the first three stops then slide to the last one

or alternate pick each stop first the G then the E string you might hear a bit of Memphis Soul Stew!