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Hi, how are you doing?

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Justin here with another
quick tip for you.

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And this one is pretty random indeed
but very, very cool and effective.

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It just seems really funny.

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I'd better admit straight away
that I stole this

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off my buddy Dario Cortese,
great guitar player,

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we were just doing a workshop

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over in Italy last weekend.

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He mentioned this thing
and I just thought,

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I thought it was a joke at first

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and I didn't really believe it.

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Then i tried it and it worked.

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I'm going to share this with you

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because it's just so weird.

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So, many of you will have noticed before,

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especially if you are doing
those kinds of licks like -

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lots of slidey sort of stuff,

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fingers can sometimes feel
a little bit abrasive on the strings.

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There's things that you can buy,

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like there's stuff called


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Fast Fret that I used to use

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when I was a teenager
to lube up the strings a bit.

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Actually, you don't need to bother
doing all that sort of stuff

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because we've got a natural lubricant
hiding in our eyebrows and in our hair.

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Just try this, you won't believe me,

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I didn't believe it
until I tried it either.

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If you just rub your fingers


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up one of the strings,

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not the wound strings,

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they are always going to feel

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a bit gritty, but say the third string.

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Run your fingers up and down the string
and feel how abrasive it is.

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Then get your fingers together,
and give them a rub on your eyebrow

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and then do it again, and you'll feel
it's so much easier.

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It's really lubed up your fingers,

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which means that you can
slide about on the guitar a lot easier.

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It's just such a weird, random thing,

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I almost can't believe
that I'm actually letting this out

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into the wider world
because it sounds really weird.

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But it works.
It's really effective.

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If you fingers are kind of
grating on the strings

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and you can feel them rubbing

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then it's going to wear
the skin out on your fingers,

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wear the calluses,
and you don't want that.

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You want to keep them
nice and solid.

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So, yeah. Very random
but very effective.

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I'll pass on the credit now.

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Again, I nicked this
off my buddy Dario Cortese,

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I'll put a link up to his website
in the description here.

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Fantastic country guitar player,

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a master of many different styles
but an incrdible player.

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A specialist in country stuff,

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he's got a YouTube channel
with loads of guitar lessons on it,

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the country ones are amazing.

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You definitely want to
check that out as well.

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I hope you'll have a little bit of fun

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lubing up your fingers
with your eyebrows

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or you know, I don't have
a whole lot of hair so...

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I could probably scrape out
enough oil to use my hair

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but the eyebrows,
especially when you've got

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massive eyebrows like mine,
which seem to work a treat.

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But if you've got lots of hair,
just a quick rub

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will sort it out as well.

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What a random quick tip this is.

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Anyway, I hope it helps you
slide around on the guitar easier.

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I'll see you for plenty more
lessons and songs

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and all sorts of stuff very soon.

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Take care of yourself, bye bye.