Hi, welcome to lessonswithtroy.com. Well, you can finally see my face in this one. I just got back from Resso Summit, some people have no idea what I look like because I never actually show my face. So I figured I’d do the intro and show you exactly what I look like in this one.
Well today’s lesson is going to be a fun one. It’s going to be called modern licks and tricks for the dough bro volume one, we’ll call it. And this first way of playing, I'm going to give credit to two people at Resso Summit that kind of turn me on to this new technique with the right hand that I want to show you. And these first few licks definitely incorporate this technique. And these two people Jimmy Heffernan. If you haven’t checked out his DVD, check them out. They're great. He’s got several DVDs on his site. You can check out his website by linking to mine. So if you go to mine, go to the link’s page and click on Jimmy Heffernan’s link and you can check out his great DVDs. And the other person is Mike Richard, and he’s got two great books, progressivenator guitar that I've got and I think that everybody should have. Good play, at least who are learning, check out his site to.
But this first technique that I want to show you is what's called a rest stroke with the thumb. And were basically going to be getting a sharper more distinctive sound that lends itself more to a modern sound. I sensing that you might hear Jerry Douglas play. Basically, what were going to be doing in its simplest state is when you play pull offs, you're going to hit it with your thumb. Hit the note with your thumb, string with your thumb and you have to bring it through and rest it on the next string.
You probably can't see zoomed out here. Let me zoom in and I’ll show you exactly what I'm talking about. Okay, if you bought this lesson, go ahead and print out your tab and set it on a stand in front of you. I'm just going to go lick by lick and show you exactly what I'm doing. Here for this lick, this first lick, I want to go through this technique and show you exactly what I mean by this rest stroke.
What I mean is, say you play with your thumb, play the third string. Basically, what you're going to do, instead of picking it like this. You're going to pick it, then you're going to rest it on that string that’s above it, just like that.
Okay, so anytime you use the thumb for all this pull off licks that I'm getting ready to show you, I got the finger underneath the tab to. But any time you use your thumb and you got a string underneath the string that you're playing, go ahead and hit it real solid and just rest it on that next string. Whether you're playing your second string, your third string, your fourth string, and get use to doing that. That’s that technique, that rest stroke technique. And I’ll show you the difference in sound. That lick number one, like I said, I’ll show you the left hand. We’ll go through this later in just a second. But I want to show you how I used to play it and I’ll show you how I play it now.
What you're going to hear is hopefully a pretty distinct difference. Okay, so how I used to play it, let me try it a few times. Let me try it again. Okay, so that’s how I used to play it, with no rest stroke. You're just basically playing the notes. But now what I'm going to do is I'm really going to accent that thumb and when I carry on through with the pull off there, my thumb’s going to come all the way through. It’s basically going to hit this next string. What you're going to get to is you're going to get a nice pick blocking technique to where it’s going to mute out the higher string ringing out. Let me show you what I mean. I’ll go and play a few times now using this technique. Try it again. Play that a few more times.
Yeah, I'm really accenting it there. But you can see that it really brings those note out in those pull offs really jump out. That’s the new way, that’s the way I'm going to show you through all this licks. And that will really spice up your hammer ones and pull offs. Here's the old way one more time just to show you the difference. This one sound is distinct and one sound is powerful, but we want that real powerful sound. That’s what we’re looking for for this more of a modern sound. Here's how I used to play it. Okay, I would consider that it’s clean. Everything is fine with it, but it was just wimpier. It’s a wimpier sound. Definitely hasn’t have that real cool sound to it.
Try it one more time then I’ll show you the lick. Okay, that’s basically. Every time I do those pull ups, I’m really bringing my thumb right on through. Let’s go and run this lick. Okay, let me show you what the left hand looks like with this lick. I'm going to go ahead and play it slow. A little bit quicker.
Okay, now what you're doing there is you're getting an open first string and then you're going to pull off to zero. This is basically a sequence in the key of G. we’ll say, you can work over other chords, say in A minor. Maybe a D7 or C major chord. Maybe even an E minor chord might sound nice with it.
Okay, so that first part. So you're zero, two, zero. So you want to real crisp pull off. Hit it. I'm going to show you the right hand with this lick slowly to in just a second. But in here you're open. Then pull off to zero, and then one on the second string. Zero on your first string. And you’ll pull off one to zero in the second string. And then two on your third string, open second string, one to zero, two on your third string, open second string, two to zero in the third string, two in the fourth string, open third string, two on zero on your third string, two in your fourth string, open third, two zero on your fourth, open third, and then you do this roll. Just basically you're going to slide up to your fifth fret on your fourth string, hit your open third, and then hit your open first. Just a basic forward roll over there.
Let me go through this again. Open first string. So let me take it measure by measure, that might actually make more sense. So zero – two – zero – one on the second – zero – one – zero – two on your third. Okay, that’s the first measure. Second measure, start with your open second string – tow on your third – open second – two to zero in your third – two on your fourth. Then second measure sound and looks like this. Okay, third measure. So open third string – two to zero – two on your fourth – open third – two to zero on your fourth – open third - then you slide up for that forward G roll.
Okay, that whole thing put together. One more time, real slow. Try to play along with me if you can. Two – three – four.
Okay, let’s check out the right hand.
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