Steve Rieck: For this warm up tutorial what I want to do? Just explain two fairly basic concepts, I mean just go over, reiterate them again. The first one is just positioning of your fingers and this can be understated a number of times. If you are that kind of beginner guitar player that tends to hear some notes sounding like that, that can drive you crazy. And what's happening is there is the string that simply isn't contacting the fret bone.
There is a really couple of different reasons why you would get a sound like that? The first is, that you just not getting that string to contact the second fret in this case. So if I am right behind the fret like that, I get much better leverage to get a good connection there.
The second is if there is a problem with your guitar, maybe you have a fret problem or something in your guitar, you definitely want to take in and got to look that. But just assuming you have got a good guitar and its set up well. If you are hearing sounds like this, what you really want to do is make every effort whether it's in your chord, or scales or any exercises you are playing is to get your fingers really close up to the fret. Don't put them on top of the fret as you get a music string like that as well. So right behind that.
So let's look at a few basic chords, the open chords. Notice how my fingers are right up against the frets in a sequel. If I only just pulling back, a little bit you get that, that ugly sound. Like that, that's the C chord. Practice the G chord same way. If in the G chord if you are going to get that fifth string note in the second fret B, yeah really look that second finger but a lot of guys like to intentionally mute that one, the D chord. For the G chord rather so I am going on to the D chord, same idea so I am two, four back. It sounds terrible. If it's right up, maybe this sounds good.
The A chord, with this chord I have got the second finger back quite a bit there, there is no way I am going to getting up to the fret with the third finger so you just have to over compensate a little bit with the pressure and push your finger down a little bit harder. And if you push too hard, that's the other thing, if you push to hard, you will really get the note then it will be sharp. So you go out of tune with that.
So you really have to find the happy medium between pressing hard enough to really get the tone out of the note. And I am now pressing too hard, it will be, out of tunes. The E chord demonstrates that as well with the second finger I just can't get that to the second fret, you got to push a little bit harder. You got it, so practice this for as with the -- perfect tone. I am just demonstrating the basic chords but of course you can do this with them and you need to do this with anything you are playing, anything you are practicing. Let's look at a few more techniques next.
Sharon Isbin: I am Sharon Isbin and I am about to walk you through how to play Batucada de Isaias Savio. In the style of this samba by all kind of mixture but the accent on the first note, not but and then play out the base, so it becomes.
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