In the second segment, we will be looking at one more application for hybrid picking. In this case, we will be combining a regular strummed chord sequence with a melodic arpeggio interlude and you will hear passages like this in a lot of classic rock songs but also a lot of modern songs as well.
So, we will start with the chord progression that you might see in a song starting with E Minor going to D Major to C Major to G Major. I will do a walk down to F#, back to E Minor to D Major to C Major and this time, we will end on a B7 chord and then we will go to our melodic interlude. And we are just going to use some sort of arpeggio fragments; we will have an Open E on the top of each one and you can get these exact fingerings from the tab at the beginning of the video. But we will start with an E Minor, go to a D Major which will have a 9 add 2 with the Open string to a C Major. A chord we can think of as B Major or B Dominant 7 and add 11 to it. Then an A Minor, Open E Minor, and this chord we can think of as sort of an E Minor over F# or you could think of it as sort of an extension of that B7 chord. Then it will end on B7 then we will go back to the E Minor, A Minor, E Minor over F#, then C, A Minor, E Minor and then D, E Minor over F# and ending on a B7 going back to E Minor.
Now, I should point out that with these arpeggio fragments, I can execute this just fine with a right-hand pick but you notice that, that has sort of a robotic quality to it when you are plucking each string with the pick. When you are combining the pick with your fingers, it can mix up the sound a little bit and sort of separate it and give it some different tempers. So, we are just hitting pick, middle finger, ring finger, back to the middle finger.
So, let's try it in context. So, you will notice that as we hit that, we are able to just strum and seamlessly go into that melodic sequence just hitting the right string with the pick and your fingers are there ready to go; you don't have to put the pick down to do the finger picking and you actually get a similar volume of attack on each string. So, in our next video, we will look at one more application for hybrid picking.
So, we will be hitting this note and then we will be doing a slur, a hammer on from the Open fourth string to the second fret.
We will start with a measure of just the C Major chord, we will play that into the second part and then we will use the C Sus 4 that we have, we will add the fourth finger on to the third fret of the fourth string.
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