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Hi, how'ya doing, Justin here.
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Welcome to this lesson on [br]basic Travis picking.
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Now Travis picking gets it's name from[br]the great Merle Travis,
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a country guitar picker and his[br]picking style was subsequently stolen
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by anyone who played fingerstyle[br]accoustic guitar. It sounds really cool
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and it's a great technique to learn.
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Now it's basically a little bit more[br]complicated version of the thumb
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moving around that we've looked at[br]previously, but in order to help your
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development overall as well, we're now[br]going to be applying this to
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some barre chords. To really make sure[br]that you got your barre chords good as well.
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So, let's get to a close-up, we're gonna be[br]using a C, A-shape barre chord.
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Which is (plays) this one,[br]you're gonna see it in the close-up
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in a second; I'm gonna show you a close-up[br]first of all of the fretting hand and then
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we'll go to the close-up of the picking [br]hand to see what all the fuss is about.
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Ok, here we are for our C chord.[br]Now this is of course an A-shape
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barre chord,-with the 1st finger on the[br]root note C,- at the 3rd fret,
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you don't tuck your 2nd finger like that,[br]I'm just doing it to keep things nice and
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simple for you to see. Now, what we want[br]to get used to the idea of here is the 1st
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finger moving between the note C and the[br]note G. The pattern we're learning is this:
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So, just get use to the idea of this 1st[br]finger moving
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Let's check out the picking hand!
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The big deal with this Travis picking is[br]the movement of the thumb.
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And instead of just alternating between[br]two strings that we've had before
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when we looked at our pattern, (♪)[br]our thumb is now gonna go:
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5th string, 4th string, [br]6th string, 4th string.
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Which is why we had a look at the[br]1st finger moving over between the
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5th string and the 6th string.
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Now but don't use a barre, move[br]your 1st finger!
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So, the 1st pattern we're going to look at[br]is basically our very simple pattern 1:
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That was the original one,
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but now we're gonna be going:
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Again, you'd gonna have to probably do [br]this very slowly, I really struggled
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the first time I learned this, so I'd[br]expect you guys, to at least have a
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bit of fun with it. Really slowly:
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together:
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Thumb, 1, thumb on the thickest string,[br]2nd finger, thumb back on the 4th string.
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If you're really struggling to hold your[br]barre chord down, and you see a barre chord,
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just use our regular open A chord:
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you will get the kind of the bottom 2[br]string ringing out a little bit,
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which sounds a bit funny to my ear,[br]but at least you can kind of get used to
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the thumb movement there, that's what's[br]really important is,...getting this:
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you know, just practicing that is a really[br]good idea for this kind of pattern.
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Then introduce the other fingers.
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So that's pattern 13.
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Pattern 14:
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Exactly like our pattern 2,
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but with this new Travis Picking.
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And of course, you would then start to[br]merge 13 and 14 together.
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You can really hear...
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just sounds cool.
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A lot of the times these guys have a [br]little bit of kinda mute on there as well.
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So you get that... I'm just resting my[br]palm of my hand there:
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Ok, pattern 15 and 16 where I'm to now,
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I'm using a G barre chord
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An E-shape barre chord at the 3rd fret.
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Hopefully you know how to play that,
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now, all of the 6th string root patterns[br]we've checked out so far,
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had the thumb bouncing between[br]the 6th string and the 4th string.
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Now what we're doing for our[br]Travis picking is, we're going:
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6th string, 4, 5, 4[br]6, 4, 5, 4
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So that's where it starts[br]to get a bit more complicated.
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Again, you gonna have to just do these[br]really slowly.
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It's still then same pattern with the rest[br]of the fingers as we've been looking,
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as same as pattern 1 for the C chord, or[br]pattern 3 for the G chord would've been
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having this 2nd finger on the beat and[br]then the 1st finger on the end after 2 and then
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back to that finger; That pattern.
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That's the original pattern we would[br]have had on the G.
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Then just try and break out that...
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the thumb, into moving over doing[br]to the 5th string.
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I would highly recommend doing[br]what I'm doing now.
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I've just...doing 6th, 4, 5, 4
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Just doing that quite a few times[br]to get the thumb used to moving
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onto the 5th string.
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And then introduce those other notes.
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Again, really slowly and gradually[br]build up the speed is what you want.
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Now, pattern 16: exactly the same as[br]our pattern 4 was originally.
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There's pattern 4: ♪
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And 16 now, we're now just again
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moving it onto our Travis picking
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I'm sure you're gonna have a whole[br]lot of fun with your Travis picking,
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It is a little bit tricky and it takes a [br]little bit of practice, but nearly all
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of the things that sound really cool[br]require quite a bit of practice and
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this is one of them. I'm gonna show you[br]a cool little country trick as well,
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that I think you might enjoy.
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I was really stoked when I[br]discovered this thing.
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Hopefully you remember your C7 open chord.[br]Right? If you move that C chord up 2 frets
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you're on a D chord.
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Now, if we use pattern 2:
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what I'm doing is moving my 3rd finger
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over to the 6th string.
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5th string:
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6th string:
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Sounds pretty cool.
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Now, you can do it with the Blues.
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Using D, G, back to D
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G
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It's a really fun little pattern.
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A
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G
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Back down to D
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And you can kind of develop this[br]idea quite a lot.
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Hope you'll have fun with that,
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take care, and I'll see you for
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the last lesson in this series,
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which is adding in hammer-ons[br]and flick-offs to our patterns.
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Just kind of tricky enough already.
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And now we're gonna b introducing[br]some new stuff.
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So, I'm sure you're gonna enjoy that too.
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See you very soon, bye-bye!