Hi, how are you doing?
Justin here with another quick tip for you.
And this one is pretty random indeed but very, very cool and effective.
It just seems really funny.
I'd better admit straight away that I stole this
off my buddy Dario Cortese, great guitar player,
we were just doing a workshop
over in Italy last weekend.
He mentioned this thing and I just thought,
I thought it was a joke at first
and I didn't really believe it.
Then i tried it and it worked.
I'm going to share this with you
because it's just so weird.
So, many of you will have noticed before,
especially if you are doing those kinds of licks like -
lots of slidey sort of stuff,
fingers can sometimes feel a little bit abrasive on the strings.
There's things that you can buy,
like there's stuff called
Fast Fret that I used to use
when I was a teenager to lube up the strings a bit.
Actually, you don't need to bother doing all that sort of stuff
because we've got a natural lubricant hiding in our eyebrows and in our hair.
Just try this, you won't believe me,
I didn't believe it until I tried it either.
If you just rub your fingers
up one of the strings,
not the wound strings,
they are always going to feel
a bit gritty, but say the third string.
Run your fingers up and down the string and feel how abrasive it is.
Then get your fingers together, and give them a rub on your eyebrow
and then do it again, and you'll feel it's so much easier.
It's really lubed up your fingers,
which means that you can slide about on the guitar a lot easier.
It's just such a weird, random thing,
I almost can't believe that I'm actually letting this out
into the wider world because it sounds really weird.
But it works. It's really effective.
If you fingers are kind of grating on the strings
and you can feel them rubbing
then it's going to wear the skin out on your fingers,
wear the calluses, and you don't want that.
You want to keep them nice and solid.
So, yeah. Very random but very effective.
I'll pass on the credit now.
Again, I nicked this off my buddy Dario Cortese,
I'll put a link up to his website in the description here.
Fantastic country guitar player,
a master of many different styles but an incrdible player.
A specialist in country stuff,
he's got a YouTube channel with loads of guitar lessons on it,
the country ones are amazing.
You definitely want to check that out as well.
I hope you'll have a little bit of fun
lubing up your fingers with your eyebrows
or you know, I don't have a whole lot of hair so...
I could probably scrape out enough oil to use my hair
but the eyebrows, especially when you've got
massive eyebrows like mine, which seem to work a treat.
But if you've got lots of hair, just a quick rub
will sort it out as well.
What a random quick tip this is.
Anyway, I hope it helps you slide around on the guitar easier.
I'll see you for plenty more lessons and songs
and all sorts of stuff very soon.
Take care of yourself, bye bye.