Rob Schumann: In this fourth segment, we will continue with more of our beat subdivisions. We have done our eighth notes and we are just going to work on gradually speeding those up. So we've just gone up four or eight at a time, and eventually you start getting up to around 100, 120. Once you get up that fast, you are starting to really play. So I have got this set at 120 right now, one and two and ready, go.
Now, of course I should mention, you may not be able to get up that fast in one day. This could take several weeks getting your fingers used to executing and synchronizing with your right hand and so don't be discouraged if it takes you a while. The most important thing is just to keep it consistent in your practice, and you will develop good consistency and speed.
So once we get up to about that fast, we are ready to start with some sixteenth notes. And so I am going to back this metronome back down to about 60. Sixteenth notes are four attacks per beat, and so you can count that a couple of different ways. You can think of it as one E, and two E, and three E, and four, and once again, it's important to keep this even or you can think of it as one, two, three, four, two, two, three, four, three, two, three, four just as long as they are even.
So with the metronome, let's just do this on a single note, one, two, ready, go. One E, and two E, and three E and four E and one E and two E and three E. So we're getting those attacks down. Once we're ready, we'll start combining that with the left hand. One E and two E and ready, go. One E and two E and --
So we start speeding that up little by little and you will notice at this point that your hands start to get really fluid and you start being able to just sound a lot better on guitar and a lot of that is just a result of locking into that tempo and really listening to the subdivisions rather than just executing notes randomly.
So once we have started working up the sixteenth notes, we're ready to actually back down a step and we're going to start working on eighth note triplets and eighth note triplets are a little bit more difficult and that the picking doesn't stay the same from beat to beat.
On the first beat of each pair, you will be picking down up down, and on the second beat, you will be picking up down up. So with the metronome at 60, this will look like this. One, two, three, one, two, three, one, two, three, one, two, three, down up, down up, down up, down up, down up, down up, and that's going to stay the same through the scale whether you are passing through strings -- from string to string or not, you'll keep that down up down the same consistently on those eighth note triplets. So we will apply that to our scale on our next segment and talk about some tricks for practicing.
Pierre Bensusan: Hello, my name is Pierre Bensusan. I would like to play for you the composition of mine which I wrote several years ago. It's called Silent Passenger. The next movement is going to be the A which is the first theme. So just one little guitar here. It's those two notes are played by the sound.
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