Hey, welcome back to the Guitar Tricks Channel. I’m Neal your host. And we got some new digs, very cool digs with brick walls. It’s an old cotton mill. It’s really cool and our producer, Karl really pimp to that and then it look really nice, the lights and everything. We’re going to start the new digs off with the new lesson and the new tip for you right here.
This tip is really cool, if you got a guitar like this or guitar that’s got a switch on it with the two pick ups here's what you do. Turn of one of the knobs and leave the other one on and you can switch between the picks. It sounds really cool while you're bending a note so I like to do it like—
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Start with the volume off and then lean in to it. You can also use it for chords.
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For other cool stuffs that you come up with like—
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Great fun tip, this week’s lesson is on touch technique. You’ll be using two hands except that we’re doing the bass with the left hand and the melody with the right hand. This is made popular by Stanley Jordan and Kaki King more lately and I want to give you a simple run down it’s from Huns Peters lesson on the website in the key of G. He was doing basic power chords. What we’re going to do is we’re going to hammer on the bass like this.
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One on the five and then we’re going to hit the high note up here with your right hand. I'm going to hit the G on the twelfth fret.
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With the D
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C
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Back up to the G.
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That’s the basic exercise. Now, you can just hammer on or you can add in a little slide like this.
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Or you can do it with more of a lead style doing a scale with the right hand which I'm not really good at yet but—
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But one thing to watch when you're doing this is that you don’t bend your wrist too much especially if you're just starting up because you don’t want to injure your wrist, so just be aware of that and try to keep your wrist more straight than at an angle.
Also when you’re hammering down with the right hand you want to use your fingers more than your wrist because that way you can build up speed because you’re building strength and your fingers are doing the work and you're not like doing this big motion like this with your fist, just using your fingers in that way you can get faster with.
The cool feature on the videos on Guitar Tricks is that there's a little A-B marker so if you want to repeat a section on the video you can mark your A and B spots and then loop it, which is really cool. You don’t have to keep it and rewind or dragging a little marker back and fort it will just loop for you so you can just play on with it.
And we’ll see you right back here in about seven days with another fresh tip and a fresh lesson. Have a great week everybody.
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