Steve Rieck: So we will talk today about hybrid picking, as it would apply to a 12 bar blues in G and the 12 bar blues and G involves three chords, of course a G7, a C7 and in this a D7 sharp nine, I am going to play D7. So I feel you are familiar with those chords. Check out the tab in the front as the chord grids. But the basic idea of hybrid picking really is combining the pick with the fingers in the right hand.
So generally what we are going to want to do is mute the base notes. The ones we are playing with a pick. So I have got the side of the hand. I am sitting down low on the strings, right here, so it's actually muting, that's sound whereas I am not muting the top strings, so you get this kind of thudy base sound with a real rim chime top sound.
So the rift itself is a shuffle pattern. So it's kind of built here on this G7 shape and if I play 2 G7s, sorry rather 2 Gs at the third fret of the sixth string and then lay my third finger across the fifth fret, on the strings two and three, picked those two with the second and third fingers of the right hand and then lifted the third finger of the left hand off to get the first finger rather than the third fret of the strings two and three.
And then hammering into that major third, in fact doing a trill. So we get that and then the end of the rift on the last there 0004. So you get the fifth fret on the fifth string to three, four, five on the strings -- the fourth string so you get the whole rift slowly. So the blues as planned earlier just involved like a G7 chord in the first measure. So it's one rift.
In the second measure it went to C7, so it just slid the whole pattern up to the eighth fret. Back to G7, on two measures, to C7 for two measures, measure five. Back to G7 for two measures, to D7 sharp nine. So in this case I am just picking the base note in the fifth string and then hitting the top notes on strings two and three and then three and four.
Then for a simple turn around I am playing on the C7 chord, C to D flat, that's the third fret on fifth string and the third string. Notice how that's high we picked and then the open six string and the open third string, hybrid picked and then just moving the base note up the sixth string to the first, second, and third fret, so I am going to go --
And it's important to do that with the first finger, it would be kind of natural to do that with fingers one two and three but in this case you want to do that with the first finger because you are going to set yourself up for the G pattern again, so you have --
For a G7 chord in that eleventh and then the twelfth measure, we will just strum the D7 chord. So that's some basic ideas for hybrid picking over a G blues.
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Rob Schumann: So let's start with an A major chord for the first, actually the first four bars are really A and then A major chord in the fifth position. My first finger is bard across the top two strings that --
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