I showed you some of the pass on some of the YouTube videos and this time we are going to start off really simple, we are just going to grab the left hand and not play anything on the right. And the real trick of this is to be able to just rotate the pattern over and over and over and over again.
So it's like this, we do a down; the rest on the string below. I just hit the sixth string, I am resting on the fifth, I hit the fifth, I am resting on the fourth, I play it up on the fourth. It's that simple, down, down, up. So when you practice this, it gets your metronome maybe like, or a drum machine. Just do it real simple at first, and just rotate it really slow with a beep , one, two, and three, and four, one, two, and three, and four, one and two and three and four and one and two and three and four. Then go to the next pair of strings, five, four and three.
And just concentrate on this right hand; it's really important to just look at your right hand and what your right hand is doing. So remember two down, a down and an up. If you can just concentrate on this one hand, the left hand will come really easy. So try it again, we want to get this like this. The second one is harder than the first down. Down, down, up, down, down, up. You got to picture, down, down, up, down, down, up.
So get your metronome or drum machine like I said and let it rotate and just go three, four and repeat that same phrase and rest, rest, rest, rest, rest, hit rest. You know what I am saying every time you hit, you rest on the string below. And you got to carry that through every time you do it. If you don't, you are not going to have the same feel that you need, you know you are doing the technique. And let it fall, right, that's the whole technique behind this. That technique right there is this; okay so see how it feels. I am just rotating that technique over and over and over again. It's that simple, two down, a down and an up. But you got to fall and rest on the string below or it won't work for you. I will do it real slow. I am just grabbing two strings with my left hand, just grab your strings.
Okay, these two opens like that are muted, it's better actually to mute and concentrate on your right hand, so give that a shot. Just over and over and over again with your right hand till you are confident with the sixth and fifth, fifth and the fourth, fourth and the third, third and the second and the second and the first, okay. Now when you go down, on the second string for starting down this low on a pattern, you are going to go down, rest on the first string, and you are going to go down, and there is no string to rest on, okay. So you got to create a rest with muscle memory. You know what it feels like here, right; you know what it feels like on the sixth and the fifth string, make that muscle memory create the same rest, there. There's no rest there but you are creating it.
So you can basically rotate. I am rotating that over and over again, it's that simple, the double down ups. It's the simplest -- hardest thing you ever learned for your right hand but once you get it, once you get the basics with the left muted hand and concentrate on the right, it's amazing what you can do with it. It's absolutely crazy.
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