(lively music)
What's up, guys this is Justice West here
and I am going to talk about double stopping as
the technique of the week.
I want to give a special shout out
to my friends at Fender for allowing me
to be a part of this.
And shout out to everybody who's shown
their techniques because you guys are awesome.
And you guys watching this are awesome.
So let's get right into it.
Now my key of choice today is E major.
But always remember that you can move
these shapes around anywhere on the guitar,
once you find your key center
and know what key you're playing in,
you can go crazy on the double stopping
or even try some Disney
and play some keys over some other keys
I don't know whatever floats your boat.
So we're going to start off with a very simple what I like
to call the major shape or position of double stopping.
So an E major again,
we're going to take our first finger
and we're going to bar the ninth fret,
the G and the B string,
ninth fret with our first finger.
Which you can hear is that's creating an E major triad
but without the fives
so it's it's not a triad,
I guess that'd be a dyad.
From there, we're gonna take our middle finger
and add it to this chord.
So we're gonna put our middle finger on
the 10th fret on the B string.
And then from there,
we're gonna take our ring finger
and put it on the 11th fret on the G string.
And there you have it,
two positions for double stopping what I call
the major and the minor position,
which will help you if you think about it
in major and minor as you learn your scale degrees,
it will help you chain together
more and more double stopping licks quickly.
The best way to play three Ds
is definitely with Hammer-ons and Pull-offs,
which I definitely have seen covered
in other Fender play technique videos,
it's very common technique,
you'll just literally hammer your fingers on.
And then when you wanna go back,
you pull them off.
Now the cool thing about this minor shape,
which is the 11th and 10th fret,
G and B string is
that if you slide it up a whole step because remember,
we're in E major.
So right now this is the one and this is the 2 minor,
and this is the 3 minor.
And then we can take that same major shape on
the one but this time,
we're gonna to use our pinky and our ring finger.
And we're going to play the 14th fret on
the B string with our pinky.
And we're gonna play the 14th fret on
the G string with our ring finger.
And there you have it,
you can even start off
by playing super simple melodies of songs.
(melodious song)
I'm sure a lot of you know
that song that's lean on me by Bill Withers,
just in those four positions,
we're able to start playing song melodies really simply,
and really awesomely.
Again, this is not about how many notes you can play
or how fast you can play,
but simply creating great moments for the listener
to engage with you and with your perspective of music.
So with that in mind,
simplicity is key.
Now, you wanna take this lick a step further,
there is a way.
Turn to your neighbor
and say there is another level for my church babies.
So we have those four,
which is E major,
and then the 2 minor,
the 3 minor and the 4 major.
Now from this 4 major if we then drop our first finger
to play the 12th fret and bar the B and the E string.
So, it'll feel a little funky at first
- cause you're you're going backwards
to go forwards but this is your leading your voicing
with the highest note,
which in this case would be the high octave E.
Now we're gonna take our first finger
and we're gonna slide it up a whole step
to the 14th fret and keep barring with our first finger.
Now this is where it gets super awesome.
We're going to take our middle finger and we're going
to play A flat on the high E string,
and then we're going to take our ring finger,
and we're gonna play E on the B string.
Now, if you do this all together,
this is what it would sound like.
And if you want to take it a step higher turn
to your neighbor and say another nother level.
You can do this additional part.
Now we're gonna do an interval of four,
so we're gonna take our pinkie and put it on F sharp.
And we're going to take our ring finger
and put it on C sharp.
So that is the 11th fret on the G string,
and the 11th fret on the D string.
And now we can slide that down a whole step or skip a fret.
Now the cool thing that you want to take notice
of is how I'm using the vibrato
and sliding across the neck to kind
of add flavor to the playing.
It's like adding a little sprinkle of salt.
You know, just a little kind of slide
that does take a while to get
and especially getting your hand strength together.
But it's a awesome technique
that you can also add
into your playing simply distressing notes.
So let's walk through this from the beginning,
all the way to the end,
to make sure that we're all on the same page here.
So we're gonna start with our interval force.
Then we're using our first finger to bar that ninth fret,
just the G and the B string so,
then we're hammering on that ring finger
and that middle finger.
Then we're just sliding that up.
Now we're gonna hammer on with
that ring finger and that pinky.
And then we're gonna bar that 12th fret
with our first finger,
slide that up.
And now we're to our ring finger and our middle finger.
And all together that sounds like this.
Now where it gets fun as simply adding in your own melodies,
reordering these different shapes,
trying them in different keys,
the key for me in my playing personally, is experimentation.
Don't do the same thing over
and over and mess up on purpose.
And don't be afraid to hit wrong notes,
because wrong notes are not wrong if you do them on purpose.
I hope this lesson has been helpful.
Again, thank you to my friends for letting me teach one
of my favorite techniques.
And yeah, shout out to the Justice League,
which is me 'cause my name is Justice.
Yeah, peace out.