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Hello, how're you doing? Justin here.

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Welcome to IM-156.

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In which we're going to be checking out
how to do "Picked Fingerstyle.'

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Now, what I mean by picked fingerstyle


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is that you're going to be using your plectrum,

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to pick out individual notes,

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in a kind of a strummy...


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almost fingerstyle kind of way.

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And what it's really training you up to do,

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is to be accurate with your pick

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and therefore be able to
pick out individual notes,

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particularly while you're strumming.

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So, cause it's a really cool thing
to be able to kind of have a little

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. . .

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That kind of thing,

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I'm strumming, it's still kind of strummy


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but i'm able to pick notes out
from my strumming.

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Now the best way to learn this,

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is to start off with a couple of simple patterns

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that teach you to pick individual notes

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while maintaining your
down-up, down-up, down-up, down-up pattern

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that you would normally use in a bar.

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So let's get to a close up,

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and have a look at a really,
really common one of these patterns,

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we're gonna be using a G chord

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so, get your left hand on a G,

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the close-up is gonna be on your picking hand.

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We've got our left hand on a G chord,

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and the little pattern
we're going to be doing here

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is going to be:
6th string, 4,

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3,

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4,

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2,

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6,

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2,

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3,

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4,

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It's really important 
that you keep doing your alternate picking

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so:
down-up, down-up, down-up, down-up,

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down-up, down-up, down-up, down-up.

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Now, this one pattern 
can teach you a whole lot of stuff,

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and it's all because 
you're going to get your hand used to moving.

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. . .

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You can say it's kind of almost,

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that looks strummy already,

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so if I start strumming

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and do kind of start picking out some notes,

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. . .

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you can see now it's sort of strummy


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but now I'm picking out notes,

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but the big deal here
is to learn to be accurate first,

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and this pattern 
is a really good one to learn on.

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So: 
6th string... 4,

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down-up, down-up,

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down-up, down-up.

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Now, all that would change
when you move chords

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is the bass note,
you'd leave all of the rest.

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So, if we move say to a C chord,

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so left hand is now moving to a C,

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the bass note is now
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So:
down-up, down-up,

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down-up, down-up,

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down-up, down-up,

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down-up, down-up.

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You maybe move that to a Gsus 
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to an A minor 7

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It's a really common pattern

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down-up... down-up,

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down-up... down-up

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We get G

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Now, if we go to a D chord,

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we don't really want to be
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because... the first note we have to play 


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is the D string, which is the 4th string,

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So it's OK sometimes to move this pattern to here,

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to the thinnest four strings.

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And when you move to a C chord,

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you've moved to that 
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and then back to the top four.

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maybe go to an A minor

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If we are...

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A bass note,
which it'd be the 5th string,

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to an F maybe,

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So the big deal here,

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is learning to get this motion, 


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so it's still,

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always down and up.

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If you get confident with that,

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have a go at kind of 
strumming a little bit more

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so just get yourself on the G,

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this is always gonna be on beat one,

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so, 1 and, 2 and, 3 and, 4 and,

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1 and, 2 and, 3 and, 4 and,

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1 and, 2 and, 3 and, 4,

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1, 2, 3, 4,

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1, strum, down-up, down-up,

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1, strum, down-up, down-up,

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Now I'm doing:

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bass,


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Doesn't matter, it's all just about trying to free up

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and getting used to being able to play individual notes,

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while you keep that hand moving all the time.

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You can feel free
to make up your own patterns here,

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as long as this is going to be on beat one,

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you can do what you like,


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you could go:

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and, 2 and, 3 and, 4 and,

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1 and, 2 and, 3 and, 4 and,

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1 and, 2 and, 3

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So if you do it now: 5,

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By far, the best way for you
to get this technique into your playing,

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is to apply it to some songs
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It's a really great idea to try and 
make up some of your own patterns,

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and just really make sure 


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that you stick up to this
down and up picking- slash- strumming motion,

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that's really the key.

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Now, some people have trouble

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judging the distances between the strings,

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so I'm just goning to show you a little exercise

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that you may like to do a few times,

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if you're struggling with finding 
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with your picking hand.

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So the exercise that I'd recommend,

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is leaving your left hand

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to cover all of the strings,
so they're all muted and dead.

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Then you're gonna pick up on the thinnest string,

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down on the 2nd string,

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up on the thinnest string again,
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Up on the thinnest string,
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up on the thinnest string,
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up on the thinnest,
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And then back up again: 5th,

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Now, very often I find that

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if I use my little finger as an anchor point there,

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it makes the kind of accuracy a little bit better, so...

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you may wanna try that one.

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Some people don't like using an anchor,

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I think it sounds pretty cool, 
works for me.

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Now... once you've done that a few times

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you may like to try 
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so, you'd go and hit down on the 6th,

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Normally again, I would play this
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. . .

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I'm sure you'll find 
doing that string skipping exercise will help you out,

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if you're really struggling
doing your picked fingerstyle.

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That said, there's no substitute for really slow practice,

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so probably the best thing that you can do,

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is to do your picked fingerstyle patterns 
that you make up yourself,

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or the ones that I've shown you,

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and if you're struggling
just do them really, really slowly.

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Don't be afraid of watching your pick hand like an owl

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just stare, you know?

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if you can't do it.

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And it's really a speed thing,
if you do it really slowly,

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you should be able to do it.

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Remember to use your little finger, pinky,
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You know, I like to do that,
some people really hate it,

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so, I'm going to leave that down to your call,

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I think it's a good idea,
and it makes kind of logical sense to me,

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that it's kind of works 
and functions as a gauge,

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and helps you judge the distance
between the different strings,

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but like I said, some people 
find that a really bad idea

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so I'm going to leave that up to you

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to find out which one feels good for you.

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Again, most importantly, 
can't stress it enough,

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make sure you apply this idea 


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to some songs that you know and that you like,

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and it'll make you a better guitar player,

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it'll incorporate it into your playing,

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so comes out sounding natural.

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Hope you've enjoy learning that,


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and I'll see you for another lesson very soon.

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Take care, bye bye.