Alright guys Jack here “jbf music and guitar lessons” and I will break down
some of the guitar stuff in Ali Bata's new song “Juli 97”. So,
in terms of the acoustic there's one part that I really liked it's a trick I don't think I've
seen him do before, it was a double finger tap and then I slide I've got cued up here
So let's break down what's going on there
To start off with, you want the left hand to hold down an F major chord. So first fret, third,
third, second, first, first. You use your thumb and you rake through those bottom three strings
now you might have noticed I'm playing here rather than here
and I suspect the reason Alip that does this is because if you play here
you’ve got much further to go to get to the tap. If you're playing around here the tap is much
closer, you will also notice there is a different tone it's much softer here than compared to here.
So it might just be that he prefers the tonal texture playing here, but you do that,
then use your middle finger to pluck the E string so we have
Then the tapping part comes in, so you're going to tap the 11th fret on the D string with your
first finger slide up to the 12th keep that held down and tap the 12th fret on the B string
then slide that down two to the tenth so we have
so far from the start
The easiest thing to do here would have been to slide this down
a semitone but oh no! Mr. Alip Bata won't do that he'll pick The Road Less Travelled,
what he's done here is very difficult he's going to the fourth fret on the G
and the E strings and he's hammering them on from nowhere, so not even,
not even picking them! Just using left hand technique to get these notes. He's even using
his third and fourth fingers which I just can't do I don't know have the strength: I'm having to use
my second and third fingers to get that so I'll play through the whole thing slowly from the top
So there are two things I'm going to break down
here first of all there's this one- watch what he does here
so I didn't catch that the first time around but what he's doing is playing a
“dyad”; which is fancy way of saying “two notes” with the volume rolled down so you can play them
and then roll the volume in and you get this lovely swooping noise of the guitar coming in.
The technique is called a “volume swell” if you want more information on that I'll link to it with
the “i” up there hold down the 14th fret on the G string hold down the 13th fret on the B string
roll the volume of the guitar all the way down to zero pluck them, then swell
in the volume and add a bit of vibrato, so shake the strings a little bit as well
next we'll have a look at this arpeggio
right, so slowly it's going
a bit more speed on it
so to break down what's happening we're going to start on the eighth fret on the A string
I'm using my middle finger for that seven on the D string pluck that
once and then hammer on to nine and ten so we have
I'm using all downstrokes here, so downstroke and the A string downstroke and the D
downstroke again at the G and the ninth fret down stroke on the B and the tenth fret final
down stroke on the E string. I'm gonna hit the eighth fret hammer on to the twelve slide
up to the 13. I ran out of sustain there! And then slide back down, so you'll have: hammer,
slide, slide, pull off that's where his whammy bar comes in. But if you don't have one you can
just add a vertical vibrato so just sliding your finger up and down the Fret I'll link to a lesson
going into more detail on that technique with the “i” up there, so once again for good measure
Lovely isn't it?
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