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Hello, how you doing? Justin here again.

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Uhm, I want to share with you a little

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cool technique called rolling today.

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Uhm, one of the biggest problems we have

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on guitar is if we get two notes that are

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in the same fret, but on different strings

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It can be quite hard to negotiate your

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fingers to get from one to the other

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quickly and smoothly

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So there's this little technique called

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rolling that I want to show you.

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Now, to really, we're going to use the

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A minor pentatonic scale to practice it.

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But, I need to show you the technique up

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nice and close so you can see exactly

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what's going on.

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Uhm, it's a little bit of a weird one.

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Uhm, but well worth it spending a little

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bit of time practicing it.

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Again, you shouldn't have to practice

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this forever, but if you give it a few

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weeks, you know if you're doing 5 minutes

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a day or whatever, give it a few weeks and

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you should sort it out.

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Don't go mad not being able to perfect it,

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just get the basic technique together, and

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then as you're learning songs that use it

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make sure that you're rolling the right

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way.

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It's particularly useful for a lot of the

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arpeggios when you start learning like A7

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and D7 arpeggios or whatever. You need

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to have this rolling technique well sorted

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So, let me go to a close up and show you

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what I'm talking about.

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Let's say we got this note here, and the

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next note that we want to play is this

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note here.

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Which these are both in the 5th fret with

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our first finger.

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Now, if you're playing that note and you

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have to lift your finger off and move it

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over to the other string. It takes a

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little bit too long.

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So, what we have to learn how to do is do

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this. There's only one note being sounded

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at a time.

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Now, the important part for this is, and

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I suggest you learn it this way first with

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just one finger.

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Put your first finger down, using the tip

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of your finger. When you flatten it, or

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roll it onto the next string, it's really

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important that just here the tip of your

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first finger mutes that D string.

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So that only the note C is sounding,

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which is this one here, the 5th fret.

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And when it goes back to the other one,

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it rolls onto the tip and now the third

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string is muted, so what I'm going to do

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now, you won't see my picking hand, I'm

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actually picking both the D string and the

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G string at the same time.

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The two center strings.

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And you'll...

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See the way it rolls from one to the other

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and then it rolls over like that and you

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can see the tip of the finger is now

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muting that D string, and now the

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underneath of the first finger is muting

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that other string. Let me get a better

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angle on that. That's better.

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Ok, so you can see here from the first

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finger, when it rolls over, you can see

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that the fourth string is actually up and

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then the third string is down, so you can

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And it works, of course, just as well for

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the third finger. If we do the third

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finger there. (Plays notes)

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And here we are for the exercise.

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So what we are going to be doing is

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starting here with the first finger and

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then roll it onto the next string.

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Same fret. Fifth fret roll onto the fifth

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fret. Now the next two notes, the minor

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pentatonic scale, roll on different frets.

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So you don't have to roll on that one, but

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then the next two strings you do.

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And the next two, third finger, roll

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point, roll it flat, point roll it flat,

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point, roll it flat, the next two are on

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separate frets.

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Point.

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Flat.

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Point.

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Flat.

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And they're exactly the same thing

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backwards.

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Flat.

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Point

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Flat

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Point

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Flat

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Point

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Don't need it

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Flat

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Point

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[Plays lick]

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Another cool trick, a variation, that you

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might want to try is doing this...

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I call it rounding it. You go

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point

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flat

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up

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up

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down

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up

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down

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[Plays guitar]

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I hope you had fun with that exercise.

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It is quite a good one.

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It's a difficult one to explain, even with

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the video, I think, but it's all about

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getting the difference between the tip of

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your finger and then moving it on to the

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flat.

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I'm sure with just a little bit of

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experimentation you'll have success at how

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to do it.

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It's not that killer difficult, but it's a

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real problem when you're trying to get

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your pentatonic scales, particularly, have

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a lot of notes on the same fret.

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It's kind of difficult, but it sounds the

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most, this sounds like it.

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Loads and loads of little sounds.

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[plays bluesy guitar]

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Flat, point. That's bending the 7th fret

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third string.

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And then playing the fifth fret of the

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second string onto the 5th fret of the 3rd

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string.

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Being able to get that movement between

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those two strings on the same fret is a

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really good idea.

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So uhm, have a bit of a play with that.

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Check out the tabs on the website, and see

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if you can't learn to roll properly.