- Okay, well, if you've been practicing
your chromatic scale,
going from first position.
Up to, what I call, tuning position
where you've got the two
harmonics under the fingers.
Remember we focus on the
point where the shift is,
so really in this
instance, on the D string,
we've got the notes E, F, F sharp
and we're thinking about
going F sharp to G.
And what I'd like to do in this lesson,
is to give you a piece to play
that you can use in your practicing.
So it's just a nice way
of kind of throwing in
a little bit of real music
along with a technique
or a little study like
this, an area of intonation
that you're working on.
So the piece that we're gonna
be looking at goes like this.
And then it repeats 'round.
So it's a really simple
kind of short phrase.
But let's look at what the notes are.
And don't forget that
you've got a backing track
to practice this along with
once you've got the
notes under the fingers.
So let's look at what the notes are.
It's B, F sharp, G sharp, A.
Now you could play those notes at
and it would be kind of
easier that way but...
Playing them up the string gives
you some more opportunities
to play high notes, which
we'll see in a second.
So B, F sharp, G sharp, A.
Then under the first finger
we've got D, D sharp, E.
And then this phrase starts.
Back to the beginning, so it's E, G sharp
with the second finger,
first finger on the note D,
C sharp, C, and then B.
So just play that 'round
and 'round for a little bit.
The second time it goes
through it sounds this.
So let's have a look
what's happening here.
Same stop, B, F sharp, G sharp, A.
Up to the E.
But this time you play
G natural to G sharp.
And then it's D, G sharp, and E, so...
And I've also noticed that I'm playing
D sharp to E is hammer on.
Last little tip, when
I play the the chord,
I'm playing the E string
with my third finger.
Let's have a look at that.
Because my third finger
happens to be resting
on the E so I just use that
to sound the low note there.
It's quite an unusual thing,
that using the third
finger on the right hand.
'Kay, it repeats itself,
this first phrase again.
A dead easy
just goes up to the ear then slides down.
So it plays it four times through.
First phrase.
Second phrase.
Ah, when I go back to the
first phrase, I use the open D.
Then back to the first phrase.
And now sliding...
First phrase.
Second phrase.
First phrase again.
Last phrase.
So, you gotta backing track
listed below this video
along with the transcription.
Go and practice that and
just really get comfortable
moving up the neck in this middle range.
So you haven't reached the neck heel yet.
You're in this kind of tuning position
and you've got all these nice
harmonics and open strings
to help you reference your tuning,
but it does take some time
to get comfortable there
because you don't have the
physical marker of the neck heel
or of the crook of the
neck up in half position.
Okay, good luck with your practice
and I'll see you in the next video.
