How to Play Taters on the Dobro

Hi! Welcome to lessons with Trader Account and today’s lesson is going to be a volume two of enters and kick-offs. I did a lesson a while back, Bluegrass intros for the Dobro and this is kind of a more in-depth lesson about intros and kick-offs. Let’s go and get started I’m going to show you close ups to the left hand I can always do and put it over and stay close up with my right hand. And this first few are going to be all walk-ups, and let’s go and get started with the first lick there. Okay, start the measure 25 I’m going to show you a couple of different ways and this play were called Taters. A kind of sliding term for an Intro in bluegrass, a lot of times I say. [Demonstration] Play and set the taters to get into the tune. [Demonstration] Okay, it sounds like this I play it just you to know what its sounds like. [Demonstration] Now, basically gets everybody ready to go into the tune and you start it with a tune. On G, what we are going to do here— [Demonstration] Let’s basically do—it’s a reverse roll. [Demonstration] And it’s this idea restart with your thumb, playing your fourth string fifth fret. [Demonstration] Okay, let me go and zoom in on the left hand because left doesn’t change and just stay the same. I will zoom in on the left handle more focus on the right hand. Okay, as you can tell and I will set my bar tilted up just a little bit. And I’m getting my fifth fret and my fourth string back. So, I will make sure it’s in tune to really play the unison note with your third string there. [Demonstration] So, it sounds like it’s in tune, okay let’s go and work from the right hand for this taters leg measure 25. Okay, so start the measure 25 what you are going to do here starting with your thumb on your fourth string. [Demonstration] And you’re going to do a reverse roll, index and start moving up the string, index on the third string. [Demonstration] And so, the way—you can either think of like the word like one tater two, tater three, tater four tater. [Demonstration] Right or you can just think other like one and two and the three and the four and the— [Demonstration] Rid make away is far if that’s sound rid make away. [Demonstration] All right, so what I’m going to do is I’m going to play four and then I’m going to play two—so I’m going to play four sets of the taters and then I will play an extra two and end right there on B3 of my second measure there between measures 25 and 26. So, it goes one, two, three, four, one, two, and three. Now, we’ll kick you up into the tune and the key of the G so once again on my fifth fret fourth string and your open first string, open third and then that’s my set that’s my tater set. [Demonstration] One, two, three, four, one, two, three. [Demonstration] Okay and I will leave you into this song or what you could do is you could a walk up into that or how the fret would be one, two, three, four, one, two, and three. [Demonstration] All right and that will working onto and that what just what I played to ever that first work up that I show you the first work up leg. I’ve always had assure you, okay so I working the key of G and what you want to do is you want to set the tempo, whatever tempo you want don’t play into fast if you don’t want to play with tune as fast as what your taters are. So, the tater is what’s kind to set the tempo and get already kick down into the tune with the right tempo. Let’s go an dictators on the key of D.