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All right, we're going to continue
our quest here on the right hand.
Right hand technique.
And, all right we had
just been working on some
little more detailed
control with regard to
playing the rest stroke
right on our rhythm playing.
And things that require
control where we're aiming,
actually in some of the chord
voicings where we're,
if we're not muting an open string,
like on the C chord with our
left hand where I showed you
we'd mute the open E so we didn't get this
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We don't want that sound.
We want clean C.
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But
if I wanna kind of just strum through
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I can mute the string or i can just aim it
with my right had we are getting some more
control, some more precision.
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And then that carried right over
to the rest stroke where we're.
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And I wanted to mention one more thing
just in terms under this heading of
control and precision with the right hand.
When you're playing that
alternating bass rhythm
something will happen with
the tempo if it gets too fast.
Like if I kind of rev this
up a few few notches here.
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Okay that's still working.
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I'll go faster.
One, two, three.
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That gets hard.
That gets a little hectic and frantic.
And I'd say if there's one thing we
want to avoid our music sounding like or
containing is anything that's hectic or
frantic sounding.
That's not what we're looking for.
So when the tempo's get fast sometimes
our technique has to change.
And we employ some different different
approaches to kind of make things work.
And this goes for recording,
like this type of thing, or
single notes even.
One thing like when the rest stop or
the alternating bass gets too fast.
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Yeah, it gets a little messy.
Right?
It can get a little messy.
It gets hard to control.
And then what happens?
Tension starts to creep in to
our shoulders, into our arms,
and maybe other areas.
And it's just not a good scene.
One thing that I've noticed that works,
though, is when the tempo
gets fast for the alternating bass
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you can always kind of go from a straight
alt bass thing
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to a gallop.
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Now
this takes
some real
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All right, so
that just popped into my mind.
I think that's something good to realize.
You have an option.
Sort of it's like another gear
you can shift into when you're in
an alternate bass situation that starts
to feel like it's going too fast.
And any time you get that feeling of ugh,
that uptight feeling of this is getting
hectic or frantic or,
my arm's gonna fall off.
[LAUGH] You can kinda flip over
to this gear of the gallop.
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Takes a little skill,
takes a little precision.
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One, and a two, and a three, and a four.
And a one, and a two, and three and four.
So, one and two, and a three and
a four and a one and a two and a three and
a four, and a one.
So, this time now we're gonna have a quick
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and it's hard to really get the rest
stop in there.
You just don't have time for it.
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But you could also play this rhythm slow.
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It's a nice kind of cowboy rhythm.
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I kind of snuck
something in there
that we haven't talked about,
which is a little bass run.
And that's what that's called, bass run.
I'm not gonna go into that right
this second, but we'll watch out for
that in a later lesson.
So there you go, there's just a little
bit more elaboration on the right
hand rhythm technique, and a little
more along the path of the rest stroke.
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