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- What's going on, guys?
My name's Gina. This is the technique of the week.
Happy you're tuned in.
I wanna talk about a couple of different things today
on talk, about a couple of things that I do,
with my pick when I'm doing like finger style stuff.
And when I'm playing and then I wanna talk
about Trill Bands, because I think they're awesome.
And they're super fun.
So, let's talk about the Trill Band first.
So, I just did like an example, just like a Solo
in E minor. Right?
All good, did some pentatonic stuff.
So, I took this like, E pentatonic trill,
So what's a trill? A trill is when we're gonna hammer on
and pool off of a note, like, really fast.
So what's a hammer on? if I'm doing a hammer on,
I'm gonna have one finger anchoring a note down.
So in this case, E pentatonic, no big deal.
I'm gonna put my index finger here on the 12th Fret,
and I'm just gonna use my pinky, practice skin,
your pinky strength up.
Sometimes I'll do with my ring finger,
but it's always good practice
to just like, try and do this stuff with your pinky.
If you're, especially, if you're just sitting at home,
you know, this is stuff you can do.
If you're like, watching TV or just hanging out,
you can just kind of, sit around and, do this kind of stuff.
Build your pinky strength.
But anyway, we're gonna have one note anchor down.
It's gonna be the 12th Fret, on the B string.
And then I'm gonna hammer onto, the 15th Fret,
also on the B string. Let's get a little signal here.
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So to hammer on, I'm just gonna hammer on,
to the 15th Fret, Like this, I'm gonna pluck the Nut.
I'm sure we all know about that and I'm gonna pull off.
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Cool. So it's all good.
So to get the band in there, I'm gonna reach behind
the note. I'm gonna reach behind the 12th Fret
on the B string. I tend to use my middle finger
for this, and I'm just gonna pull that B string up
towards the lower strings.
So, hopefully you can see this.
I'm just like, pulling the B string out,
it's probably hard to see, getting a little,
little sun glare here, but here we go.
Get my trill going,
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so it's just like a really, cool thing.
This is something like, I've heard Randy Rhoads,
do are like Hendrix...
There's a bunch of ways to do this kind of thing.
If you have like a whammy bar,
like Randy Rhoads would have like,
like have some kind of fluid Rose whammy bar kind of thing,
you can do a trill and like dump your whammy bar down.
You can reach behind the Nut.
And kind of like manipulate the string that way.
But this is another, just like cool example
that my guitar teacher showed me.
And I was like, that's awesome.
You also have a little bit more control over the pitch,
so you can get a bit more weird, a bit more expressive
with it. So that's pretty cool. So Trill Band,
it's a really fun thing. And like I said,
just practicing your trills is gonna help build
your dexterity and all of that.
So, you could just take like a trill kind of thing
and go through like your pentatonic positions,
Like, if you learn all five positions of the pentatonic
scale, which, we won't go through that right now,
but you can like, Google that like, Oh no big deal.
Learn all your positions.
And then you could take like, one string at a time.
Like, if I'm an E pentatonic,
I have a pentatonic position that on the B string,
my notes would be here at 10, 12.
Then 12, 15,
then 15, 17.
I can just go ahead and practice,
like, doing trills through those three positions,
but on one string. So that's kind of a cool thing.
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That's all good. The only thing,
I wanna talk about is, when I do
like finger style stuff,
which I do pretty often and bareness and a lot of different
settings and bands that I've been in.
I tend to tuck my pick into like, inside
my index finger, like this.
So, this gives me like, quick access to, if I'm doing like,
finger-picking thing, I pull it out real quick.
I just have it right there.
I think, I, adopted doing this.
I used to work at a Cirque du Soleil show,
where I had to wear, like crazy makeup and stuff.
And I, would always put my pick in my mouth,
but I couldn't like, do that without like, messing up
the thing that I had to wear, during like the performance
or whatever. So I started doing this, like tucking it
in the index finger thing. I don't know.
It works really well for me. A lot of times,
like in the example that I was doing earlier,
I did this like, kind of finger style. Like,
So I got my, got my pick in there
and I can just kinda do these little
finger style roles. And then two,
I can like pull back out.
If I'm doing some alternate picking thing,
I gotta get through riff. I took it back.
And if I wanna do like a Trill Band or any kind of finger
tapping thing,
it's just like a thing that I got used to doing.
So check it out. Maybe it'll work for you.
So, this is a technique of the week and I hope,
that this is fun. You can do some creative,
new stuff with it. Let me know, how it goes.