Hey! I am Brad Davis and I want to talk about the Rhythm Pick Pattern. It's an important pattern that can help fill out what you are playing. Lot of song writers email me, they ask me questions and techniques about how can I make my playing more full, add things in it that would make it sound more full as a soloist and the Rhythm Pick Pattern is the answer. And I am going to show you how it sounds and the way I do it, so you can learn it.
Here it is for the G chord and standard G chord, I am going to play as like this, and the right hand is going to have a pattern that's going to give us almost a picking but a rhythm type feel and it will be -- I will give you the strings, 6, 4, 3, 2. So let's try.
6, 4, 3, 2, so it's down, up, down, up. As you go, you rotate each one. It sounds like this, a little faster; 6, 4, 3, 2, 6, 4, 3, 2. Now let's go to the C chord, we are going to start on the bass note on the C chord which will be 5. So it will be 5, 4, 3, 2, 5, 4, 3, 2, back, up down, up, down, back and forth, and back and forth.
Let's go to the D chord. I will just give you three chords to use; D is 4, 3, 2, 1, 4, 3, 2, 1, alternating each one down, up, down, up, down, up. Those are your basics. So the ideal would be to take a song that you already know, you know it really well, you know the words, you know the melody. Take a song that you already have in place and plug the RPP pattern in the chords that you have. This will allow you to focus on a right hand, and not focus so much on what the chords are, or the melody of the song. So let's take a tune now. I will show you what it sounds like without the RPP and then with the RPP. And you will see the difference what it makes.
It's a tune called Nine Pound Hammer, and I will show you with bum chuk, bum chuk and then I will add RPP in.
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Now let's try with the RPP pattern. The idea: once you learn it is to not use it all the time exclusively, but to mix it back and forth with your regular rhythm. So here it is exclusively at the very end of it, I will mix a little bit so you can hear it.
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So what a great pattern to fill out what you are doing already as a folk singer, bluegrass singer or country singer, it will really help you fill out what you are doing and make it sound more full and integrate. If you want more about this, go to my website: braddavisontour.com, and go to my lessons page, and there are some lessons there that you can utilize to help you further, your course in learning the RPP pattern.
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