Male 1:
This lesson is supposed to be a little bit funny, but a little bit of seriousness thrown in.
Somebody put on my website that they would like to see a method for getting a pick out of an acoustic guitar. Now, there are all sorts of funny stories that I can tell you about this. These are much a couple of few. If this does not work just for fun, then I will get the hammer out and smash my guitar up and stuff.
But in all seriousness, there is a little method that I used, which is probably not very difficult or anything like that, but maybe some of you have not figured it out yet.
So, you are playing away (Overlap) (Demonstration), and then suddenly your pick has gone inside the sound hole. Big problem? No, not really.
So, the way that I usually solve it is I jiggle the pick around. So, when I am looking directly down into the sound hole, I can see the pick more or less in the middle, maybe slightly further that way, like towards you now—so, away from my body.
Now, holding the guitar—this is probably not going to work, praying that I am trying to show on a video how to do it, which will make it kind of funny, but we will see if it does not work anyway. So, I am holding the guitar and then I will flip it really quickly, and hopefully, the pick will fall out the sound hole. So, either I will drop my guitar or the pick will not come out or something, because it is on video and this is sort of thing that happens. But, here we go. (Demonstration) and it is not working. (Laughter) (Demonstration) (Unable to transcribe due to voice overlap)
Okay, let us just try that again because it nearly always works for me, and I now I could not. I knew this lesson was going to be funny because of such law. Now, I just have to get the pick into position again and see if we can do it the second time. (Demonstration) No! It still does not work! Hang on. (Demonstration) Oh no, but it was on the strings. Let me get it.
Male 2:
Dude, I am going to nip up the callout here, so I will be back at around—
Male 1:
Can you get me a coffee, then?
Man 2:
Sure. (Laughter)
Male 1:
That was just so funny. I am going to have a fucking pick rattling around in my guitar now for the rest of my lessons today. Here we go, last time. (Demonstration) It does not work, dude. I cannot believe it. (Rattling)
Okay, so now I have to show you—(Rattling) I have to show you another trick. I thought we are going to get it. (Rattling) Enough of this stuff, it is so much fun.
Okay, so the other one that is really stupid is putting a blob of blue tack on the end of a pencil. (Laughter) Do you have those blobs of blue tack, dude?
But before I do that, I am not going to be defeated because my method really once worked. (Demonstration) Yes! See, I could do it, I was just making those other ones up for a bit of comedy camera action. That was actually not true.
So, just to prove it, here we go. Pick in again, see if I can do it the second time again. Here we go. (Demonstration) No, not again. I never thought of that. Okay, hang on. Just keep that camera rolling, hang on one second. I am just going to get a blue tack and a pencil.
Anyway, it is time to play a record for a minute while I find some blue tack. Tell him (Voice inaudible). Did he hear the word about the kiwi and the something?
Man 2:
I was about to lay in the (Unable to transcribe). What are you doing? Taking blue tack from your clock?
Man 1:
Yes. I could have, yes.
Man 2:
He has blue tack everywhere, this man.
Man 1:
Yes, probably. So, let us see if this method works, and it better. This is really funny. This is possibly the dumbest you tube I will have—I mean, depending on if you like me or not, I guess.
So now, what we are doing is I will just attach a blob of blue tack to the end of my pencil which I will then press on the pick, and first goal!
So, first of all, what we have learned from today’s lesson is, just that he is quite often wrong, he is not very good at getting a pick out of his guitar. Heaven help me if I do that on stage. I guess I will have to have make the guitar tick. Or, you need a pencil and a piece of blue tack and you can get your pick out right away.
Let us try that the second time now just to see if I am right. Of course, you need to be able to see the bloody thing first. (Demonstration) And in we go, pressing on the pick, and there we have it.
So, there you go boys and girls, the perfect way to get your pick out of your guitar.
Man 2:
Justin, just quickly—you better get questions on this. What lead does your pencil—
Man 1:
Oh, the pencil. It is very important that you have an HB rubber-tipped pencil with little stars on it. And it helps if it is red, you know. Do I need to teach you how to strum that one?
Man 2:
No.
Man 1:
Sorry. (Laughter) Okay guys, have fun with that. I hope you have had as much fun laughing at me as I have had laughing at me, and I will see you for another proper lesson sometime soon.
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