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Hey there it’s Dave Miller HipTonesmusic.com. I wanted to share with you today some ideas with regards to how to put the right hand and the left hand together with not just be picking but taking the riff and making it something that you can practice with. But then build some speed, some synchronization between the right and left hand.
Many of my students asked me, “How do you get the right hand to work with the left hand? How do you get enough speed with your right hand with your pick? What kind of pick do you use?” And it’s not necessarily what type of pick you use but it comes down to actually what I put together are three basic principles. And first of all is by metronome. Use a metronome, it’s a musician’s best friend, it’s probably going to be one of your best practice tools you can have.
What I'm going to do though is put that into separate lesson and go more in depth about how you can use a metronome and how you integrate that in your practice. The second is I'm going to take a real simple, that real simple lick that I was doing. I'm going to take that, in fact, I'm going to randomly take the A string in the 5th fret and it actually looks like this. It’s a very simple one, two, three, one, two, three.
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As you can see I'm playing very simple a down, up, down pattern with my right hand and very simply, I'm taking the one, two, three pattern with my left hand.
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The second part is doing the same exact thing except when you're doing it, follow the opposite picking pattern.
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The reason for using it up, down, up picking pattern is when you tie it together one, two, three, one, two, three it’s basically six times of going up, down, up, down, up, down, frankly real simple. The ideas to play the lick as slow as you can possibly play it then begin to speed it up a little bit as your right hand and your left hand synchronize together. You want to play it slowly so you’ll memorize the lick in your brain at the same time, you want to articulate and play it very clearly. And also try taking your palm. Just lay palm real lightly in the bridge, cut out some of the extra string noise. You can hear some of the noise if you have a lot of distortions. But to put it together, again, it’s going to look like this.
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And that’s it. Thanks for joining us, Dave Miller Hiptonesmusic.com. Come and join us again.
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