Rob Schumann: In this fourth segment, we will look at a pattern that uses double stops and triple stops to outline the chords. This is really useful for kind of staying in the background doing a real low impact type of accompaniment. Basically, a double stop is just hitting multiple strings at the same time. So, double stop is hitting two strings and triple stop is hitting three at the same time. So, if I apply this to a C Major chord, playing that with a double stop, it looks something like this. To do a triple stop, I would use three fingers.
Now, there is a trick to making this sound really precise and have good timing and the way to do that is when you hit with the fingers, you want them to be connected, just connect them next to each other. That way the timing is much easier to execute at the same time. If you separate them, it's easy to get a little bit of the delay in there. So, I am hitting two fingers I will have right next to each other; three fingers, all three touching each other, makes it much easier to go through the strings at the same time.
So, we can apply the same feel to some different time signatures. For instance, if we were doing it in three-four, we would hit the bass note on the first quarter note and then the chord on the last two quarter notes. So, if you want to see the exact chords and pitches I am hitting, you can look at the tab at the beginning of the video but essentially, it would look like this.
So, that would be like a three-four field. For four-four, just add another quarter note. Notice that when the melody is in the baseline as it is here, this type of comping pattern really brings that up, so it keeps the chords kind of sounding like a piano and the bass is what really continues to ring. One other application of this would be a six-eight field and I should mention also with that four-four that we could feel that as two-four; we could feel it as eighth notes where it would be only two beats long. So, in that case, we would have one end-to-end. So in that case, it would like this.
Same exact fingering is just a little faster in eighth notes. For six-eight, we have basically got six-eight notes in a measure and that gives us time to actually alternate the bass notes. So for the first beat of each measure, we could play the root note and then go to the fifth for the fourth beat. So, in the key of G Major, we could play something like this. And we will look at one more pattern in our next segment.
Kim Richey: So, hello there, I am Kim Richey and now I will play the entire song for you and it's called 'A place Called Home'.
"Well, it's not hard to see
Anyone who looks at me
Knows...."
As I will show about the picking pattern, your song is going to pick the bass note and go like this.
"To call my own
Well, it seems like so long ago
But it really ain't...."
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