How to Play Turkey In The Straw in Dobro

How to Play Turkey In The Straw in Dobro www.LessonsWithTroy.com presents Turkey In the Straw arr. By Troy Brenningmeyer. [Demonstration] Hi welcome to Lessons With Troy.com I’m Troy Breningmeyer. You started my arrangement of the traditional tune Turkey in the Straw I did in the key of G and an open G tune for the resonator guitar. Well this tune is really great if you’re looking to learn a fiddle tune and then prove your hammer on to the pull-offs and also your left hand muting and your hand muting and I’ll be going to that a lot in the lesson. If you bought the lesson go out and print your tab and set it on the stand in front of you and we’ll go and get going here. I just want to kind of explain how I have this lesson structured. It comes with two videos. The first video I’m going to show you exactly, how I played it in the sample and the tab goes with that and then the 2nd video I’m going to show you some rhythm ideas of how to play rhythm over this one and also some solo ideas of what I might use you know for some ideas for coming up with some lyrics and what not so we’ve got a lot to learn so let’s go and get going here with Turkey in the Straw. Okay so if you’re new to my lessons basically what I do is I’ll show you phrase by phrase, close up to the left hand and flip it over and I’ll show you close up to the right hand and the first phrase and this is going to be if your other tab measures 1, 2, 3 sounds like this. [Demonstration] A lot of hammer-ons and pull-ups there… [Demonstration] Okay so what you’re going to do is you’re going to start I’ve just written out in cut time 22 time and it’s going to start on beat 4 so 1, 2, 3. Alright and what I’m doing there open 2nd string and 2nd fret of my 3rd string pulling it off to zero kicking me into beat one measure 2. Alright so right after that pull off I’m going to be playing 4th fret, 4th string, open 3rd pull up 2 to 0 on my 3rd open 4th and hammer-on 0, 1. That measures one and two there so once again you started on beat 4. 1, 2, 3… [Demonstration] That’s that pretty so far… [Demonstration] Open 2nd 2 to 0 on my 3rd that’s a pull up you want to pull straight back and really get a pop to it. [Demonstration] Just like that. [Demonstration] And then 4th fret 4th string open 3rd to the 0 fall off from my 3rd. 3rd string setting up 2 to0 2nd fret open 4th zero to one hammer-on to my 5th open 4th string. 2 to 0 on my 4th on to my 5th and open 4th in the phrase. [Demonstration] Okay now let me show you some of this muting that I’m doing with my left hand here, always keep my ring finger out further than my bar you can see right there see how my ring finger comes out what I’ll do is when I go pull back on a string. A lot of times I keep my ring finger there so that it will mute out the higher string that I just got done playing. [Demonstration] In addition to right hand muting I’ll show that to you in just a 2nd. [Demonstration] Say that ring finger is touching that 3rd string but my bar is on my 4th string now so as you’re going down like this whatever you get down playing whatever strength you just got down playing your ring finger can mute that out while your bar plays the string right into it. [Demonstration] Okay so let’s check out that phrase again real slow 1, 2, 3… [Demonstration] Okay check out the right hand. Okay here’s what’s going on with my right hand. The first part I start with my index finger if you have the tab too the numbers underneath the rhythm of it is what fingers you’ll play with eyes index metal and—in your thumb. There we go index, thumb, thumb, you see how my fingers are still real close to the strings there to mute so I keep them real close to do a technique which is called pick locking. [Demonstration] And whatever is ringing out that I don’t want to ring out it is really my fingers back down in that string that mutes them out. See I’m playing my 4th string with my thumb but my index finger has muted out my 3rd string just by setting it on it. [Demonstration] Index… [Demonstration] See when I move backward my thumb I also move with my fingers keeping them on those strings and that mutes all that excess noise. [Demonstration] Let me see that. [Demonstration] Just like that. [Demonstration] So that’s what’s going on with the right hand muting just keep those fingers close to whatever string you just got down playing and that will mute them out. [Demonstration] Another rule of thumb that I keep is that when I do pull offs to an open a lot of times I Use my thumb for that. [Demonstration] Right. [Demonstration] So you’ll see a lot of times most of any of those pull offs that I’m doing using my thumb on my right hand. [Demonstration] Okay let’s go and learn the next phrase.