We are going to work further with the tune Violin cabbage down and both on the right hand picking technique and then introducing the concept of double stops.
I think technically in classical music, a double stop is when you “stop” a string with your finger, you stop two of two strings so now that you are hitting two notes, usually adjacent notes.
For our purposes, we are just going to call hitting any two notes together usually adjacent strings will be called a double stop and let me show you this version of violin cabbage down using double stops.
Again, as I had mentioned before that is good for getting started but it just a little bit more interesting to actually have sound two noted together and the second the note of the double stop like what I am playing there for instance is a harmony note to that note and typically.
When you are playing double stops, one is a melody note and the other is a harmony note, so the tune with double stops sounded like this,
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So, you will have to refer to the tablature but if you can pick up some of these just from listening to this DVD. The first position is at the fourth fret with my middle finger and open E. That is the first double stop, the next one is the fifth fret on the A string with my ring finger.
My index is spreading on the second fret of the E, to see how that shape and then the other shape you have is the second fret of the index finger within open E in the harmony note and then I ended up down here hitting those two A notes.
If you remember that was one of the fettle tune earlier. An open A and then A note on the D string that you get with your ring finger at the seventh fret. When you get this, it’s even really more important that you keep risk loose, if you play really tight you will have a hard time cutting a wide enough swath with your right hand to get all those strings.
And then for variety, you can do exactly the same thing I just played for you, almost exactly the same thing except for maybe the very last not, an active lower, so instead of this C# and this E up here. To start, you have got that C# and that E up there. So, you cut this and shape here this double stop and then you do the same thing with your right hand, the same kind of rhythm,
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If you notice with my right hand also I am not bracing when I am doing that because this is almost like playing chords which I will show you in just a couple of minutes. You do not have to brace with that just more of like playing free hand. Anyhow, this sounds better speed up usually,
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And you can play this part first and then an active lower,
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something like that.
Now one more thing about playing an instrumental one sort of clichéd in all time me fettle music that kind of work its way into blue grass music and playing instrumental is a particular way of setting the tempo for the song you are about to play, and a common way to kick this tune off and set the tempo. For the band might be something like this,
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So, that is called eight potatoes. I do not know why but that sort is the tradition, eight potatoes, so you got two measures of fear beats each and you just hitting this double strum of unison and for the first beat of each many measure you are sliding up. I will have this also written on the tablature for you.
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So, get the idea,
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That is the idea for that.
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