From the course: Acoustic Guitar Lessons: 2 Scales, Walking Bass, Hammer-Ons, and Pull-Offs

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“Daley's Reel” (basic): Part 2

“Daley's Reel” (basic): Part 2

From the course: Acoustic Guitar Lessons: 2 Scales, Walking Bass, Hammer-Ons, and Pull-Offs

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“Daley's Reel” (basic): Part 2

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- So now that launches us straight in to the B section, which starts on the four chord, which is the E flat in the key of D flat, we're at C position. But a lot of the same ideas are going to apply here that we did in the A part, a lot of open strings, that little ring. Notice I wanna keep that first string ringing as much as I can. From this point you can hear all those notes within that. It's basically the pentatonic scale. Because all those notes can sustain, suddenly the quality of what we're doing is better. As opposed, you know? So that's what you wanna work for. Moving on. Getting more and more open strings. So now that we've established this whole idea of how these notes kind of cascade and a lot of open strings roll against each other and we think about bigger phrases, this particular point here in the B section is a real challenging departure from some of this, just in the position of where your left hand needs to be to make this melody work, within the idea of these notes…

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