Quick Tip #17: Eyebrow Finger Lube? (Guitar Lesson QT-017)

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.