- Now let's cover bending strings and vibrato.…These big steel strings are kind of tough,…but you can just grab onto those and bend them…to give all of your single notes so much more soul…and like a vocal kind of effect.…Let's check out a few different ways to do that.…So first of all, it's good to sort of support your hand.…Often as you're doing vibrato or bending,…you want to sort of pivot off of this place.…You're going to hold your index finger closer to the fret board…and then kind of pull back either up or down.…
You want to go only in one direction.…You don't want to ever do vibrato…by bending up and then back down.…So generally you're going to bend it…and release it back to its original position.…You pretty much just hold the string…up against the fret board,…move it up keeping it totally against the fret board,…and then back down.…And let's try first with some single note bends…just to get your fingers sort of used to it.…Use your third finger, and if you can,…try to place other fingers behind it…just to give it some extra assistance…
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1/13/2017- Flatpicking arpeggios
- Tuning with harmonics
- Bending strings and vibrato
- Creating a monster funk groove
- Blurring the line between rhythm and lead
- Mapping the fretboard in boxes
- Getting creative with open strings
Skill Level Intermediate
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Slides3m
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Bending strings and vibrato7m 16s
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3. Pentatonic Possibilities
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4. Mapping the Fretboard in Boxes
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5. Harmony
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Major triads up the neck6m 27s
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Minor triads up the neck1m 48s
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Triads in reggae1m 3s
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Double stops5m 43s
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6. Introducing Alternate Tunings
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Drop D tuning2m 53s
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Double drop D tuning3m 35s
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Open G tuning4m 44s
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Open D tuning5m 8s
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Conclusion
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Conclusion and credits2m 22s
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