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>> Let's
try to pick out a really simple melody.
We'll just kinda use the top
end of this scale to pick out,
I don't know this is a fun tune.
This is a very easy little melody
that all kinda lands in one spot.
The old You Are My Sunshine
which is actually an incredible
tune that you can turn into quite a major
jam [LAUGH] once you get it going.
And it's a sweet little melody.
Starts on the fifth of
the scale which is your D note.
Let me just sort of
obliquely play it here.
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all right.
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All
right?
And that's all using those notes.
Alright?
So, now, here's the tricky part.
If I'm going to play You Are My Sunshine,
and I'm gonna try to keep,
I'm gonna keep my pick
direction going the whole time.
So this is going to be
kind of exaggerated.
I'm gonna exaggerate this pick direction
thing for you so you can see the principle
of the idea, which is what keeps
my right hand sort of disciplined.
So you can kinda see how
keeping your pick direction
means that whenever the rhythm of
the melody comes on a down beat.
Your pick is going in the right direction,
down or an upbeat, up.
Right.
So when I'm picking along,
this is actually just sort
of an unconscious thing now,
where my pick will just land in
the right direction because it's just
used to that fundamental habit really
of being in the proper direction for
whatever rhythmic spot I'm in on the beat,
down beat or up beat.
All right?
So it would be something like this,
just to illustrate.
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All
right?
Here's a faster version
of You Are My Sunshine.
I'll just keep my pick
direction consistent.
Now, one thing I'll point out.
There are exceptions to this.
See if you can spot the exception.
One, two,
three
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If you spotted
the first note
as the exception,
you were right.
And.
As I will continue to mention and
have mentioned throughout,
these always more than
one way to do things.
And sometimes,
we just make a choice, alright.
And that was just one of those times when,
sometimes I just feel like
playing a down stroke.
Cuz the down stroke is a very strong
sound And you can play a down
stroke rolling into the next note,
especially on a pick up note like that.
That's called a pick up, when you've got
one, two, three and four and one, two.
Those notes
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those are pick up notes in the melody.
And in that case,
I like the sound of that down stroke.
One, two, three.
[PLAYS GUITAR] right?
[PLAYS GUITAR] Just
something to point out.
Another aspect of control, when we gain
control and precision over our right hand
and we get this alternating pattern
working for us at a premium
then we can begin to make some choices for
it, but this is a ways down the road.
I just wanted to point out
that the option is there.
[SOUND] But you really need to be
confident with the alternate picking
before you can exercise
that option i think.
We have done the fundamentals of
the right hand with rhythm playing.
We've got some rest stroke rhythmic stuff,
some alternate base a little
bit of the galloping rhythm and
now we looked at single note playing,
learned a couple of scales to practice on.
The chromatic scale.
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All right, and
the major scale.
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And we picked out a simple melody,
and I showed you how to use the down, up,
alternate picking, the discipline of that.
To keep your pick direction consistent.
And if we can just start
to employ these concepts
across everything that
that we attempt to do, and
just really stay within
some of those boundaries,
what will happen after we master them,
is that things really begin
to open up in terms of
our ability to play more
songs at a higher level.
And accompany ourselves and our friends
and our fellow musicians in whatever
songs or types of musical situations
we run across, so just keep going.
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