In this exercise, I am going to show you something very, very cool indeed. It is kind of trying to imitate slide guitar playing. I am kind of be doing the whole DVD in the key of A. So let us just stay in the key of A, we are looking at this A chord just here. You imagine the whole A shaped A chord just there like that 5th fret. We concentrate on the notes. They are only the D7, and on the G6 and B5. What a nice little root 3rd, 5th on the 8th major triad. And I am going to use the fingers for this but you can do it with a pick. Let me show you what the exercise is. We kind of concentrate bending with the barre, the middle string, the G string and this is what you kind of have this after. All right, one more time.
Now I can do it with a pick. It sounds just as cool but it sounds more to me just with the thumb. And, one of your fingers maybe, you can see I am using the thumb and the first finger and this is where you are rocking with that. You can do whatever works for you but either you have these fingers kind of work. But for this, I am just going to have my bottom to my first and my second finger, and basically here is the lick.
Bending up to that G6, catching the B string, and then bending down from the G6. So using a couple of those techniques that we kind of tried early when you deep the note up and you deep the note down. To make your sound extra cool, maybe try put it in the deep A note. So you can see how I am holding the chord, first finger on the root there, and going down to the root to the 5th and then doing bending on the G.
What you want to do is practice that just one note initially on the D, the G, and the B string. But you want to be up to break up into each group of three strings. So the top here is the whole chord just there, each part of that chord breaks up into obviously three component parts of the root 3rd and 5th. So let us take the top three strings which is the E, the B, and the G. This is the A shape, this is the A chord just there. Find the 5th fret on the B and the E and this is my second finger on that 6th fret of the G. So do the same thing. It is the middle note you are trying to bend. So I am bending that middle because it is the middle note of the G and the B string and that is the middle note I am bending.
Here is the B, the G and the B strings. This is what I showed you early. Let us take the A, the D and the G string. There is the chord. I can hold the chord for like separately and here is the last kind. I take this take the 3rd of the chord. I am going to use this kind of shape here. There is the bowing at the A string and B string on the 7th fret, and then land on G string.
It is the middle string in each group of three notes that you are bending. I mean you can and then shift it. You can kind of take that mentality if you are doing the key of A, your 4th and your 5th chord will be the B and E chord. As you can see, I had a little bit fun there. Do not forget, you can put in extra notes in the chord. Maybe I can take it to maybe A7. And just kind of go around kind of jamming but whenever there is a middle note, that is the note I am kind of rocking on. You can take the chord and there is a 3rd on the top there. The only top string, the 3rd in the chord, there is the 5th, there is the root and there is the 3rd. There are those little licks. The barre becomes part of the lick. This is a little kind of experiment but the main thing to get going is that initial shape will set you up from that kind of tone.
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