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Hello! Justin here. How you doin?

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In this lesson now we're going to be checking out

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a little bit of more advanced

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power chord technique and also introduce

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a little thing called "palm muting" 
which is a very very cool

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mainly a rock technique

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that works on electric guitar

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but it also sounds very cool

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on acoustic guitar.

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You can even use it for your
12-bar blues stuff as well

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so it is pretty handy little
cool thing to do.

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So the first thing I want to talk about is

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you've now got your power chords

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with the 6 strings root and you've also got

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a power chord with the 5th string root

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So a really good exercise is
to practice going through

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any or all of your power chords

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and playing them on both
the 6th string and the 5th string

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so, if you took, say a C power chord

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you could have that as the 6th string root

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at the 8th fret

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or the 5th string root at the 3rd fret

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They nearly sound identical

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You'd also have, say a G chord

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at the 6th string root, 3rd fret

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or the 10th fret, 5th string root

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And you can hear this one sounds an octave higher

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but they're essentially the same chords.

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It wouldn't matter if it was written in the music

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to play one and you played the other

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It wouldn't matter if "that" or "that"

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It just sound slightly different

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It's up to you to choose

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So that's the first thing
that's really important to realize

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that every chord, power chord, 
can be played in 2 different places.

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It also leads to a little bit of a confusion
as to which one

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are you going to choose
if it just says in the music to play C

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well, you're going to play
this C, or this C

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There's even another one up here.
so which one are you going to choose?

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Usually, you're looking for the ones that are
the easiest to get to

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Sometimes you might want one
that is further away

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deliberately 'cause it's going to sound higher

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Or 'cause you want to get a sliding effect
up to it sliding effect up to it

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But usually you pick the nearest one

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Now, one of the chord progressions

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that we looked at in the very first one

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when we look at power chords

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with the 6th string root

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It was the same sequence that went

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F, B♭

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A♭ to D♭

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It's a very very common chord sequence, right?

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Now, of course jumping around that much

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if you are playing in a rock band

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and you're jumping 'round 
and you try to check out

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all the hot chicks up the front
and bash your head around

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and probably swig a bottle
of Jack Daniels or whatever

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you try to do at the same time

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then the last thing you ought to be doing

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is looking at the guitar 
trying to shift around

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and get your fingers moving like that

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It's just not happening.
So, what we want to do

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is try to simplify that so the movements 
that you have to make

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on the neck aren't quite as big.

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Now the first chord sequence was F to B♭

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Now, that's a big jump already.
That's like a five-fret jump.

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We could also go from F to B♭

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and stay in the same fret
because F is in the 1st fret

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with the 6th string root
and B♭ is in the

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1st fret with the 5th string root

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so, of course, it's going to be
a bit cooler to go

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and the next chord was

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A♭

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No getting around that

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you're going to have to make a jump

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But the next chord was D♭

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which is also a big five-fret jump

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Then we could go A♭

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to D♭

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because A♭ and D♭

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are in the same fret too

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So now we'd have

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F - B♭ - A♭ - D♭

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It's really important this, 
that you get the idea

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of trying to look as you're
learning a tune

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especially if you're learning like

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tabs off the Internet or whatever

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where it just gives you the chord

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and you've got no further instruction

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That you really think about

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which chords you might use

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and also try and listen

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because it takes a little bit of practice

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But you can learn to hear

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Where a power chord might be played

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if it is this one

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or this one

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They sound different, right?

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So if you try one
and you try the other one

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you listen to a record of the song
that you're trying to play

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you will listen to it and go

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"Well, that sounds like the high one"

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and you're probably right

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Remember, these little inside of head attachments
I don't mean my hat, I mean the ears

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Those things are really really good

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at helping you play guitar

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because they tell the truth

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they say "yeah, this one sounds right" or

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"that one doesn't sound right"

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So, make sure you trust your ears

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that's really important

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So, have a little fiddle 
about where you play

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what power chords

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and the thing I want to explain
to you right now

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is thing called "Palm Muting", right?

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I'm just going to play a G power chord

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so "this" would be kind of normal

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that's palm muted

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Normal

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palm muted

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and the reason it's called a "Palm Mute"

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is because we are using
this part of our hand

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the outside of your hand.
The bit that you might do

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a karate chop with
if you're karate chopping a–

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not that they really do karate chops

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but I think you probably know what I mean

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It's that little outside bit of your hand

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and you're going to rest that
right on the strings

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at the back of the guitar.
Just if you look where

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the actual bridge is where 
the strings are making contact

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with the bridge, the saddles
you're putting it right on there

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Just lean it forward
a little bit so you can play

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your chord (♪)

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and you've got a palm mute effect.

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Now what's interesting is
the further back you go

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Now we've got no palm mute
'cause we're off the back of the...

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the palm is not touching the strings
as you bring it forward

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you get more and more muted
until you just get clicky

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and it doesn't make any sense
So, any further then, say

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two inches away from the bridge
you don't really get a sound

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you just get kind of a click
But what you're really after there

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is just bringing it forward a bit
that kind of a muddies it up.

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If you're playing Metallica or Green Day
or something like that

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That would be a really
cool effect to be doing

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especially, if you kind of play

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some with the palm muting

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some without

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That kind of thing

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It is really worth being able
to play a chord

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2 and 3 and 4 and

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So the first one

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open

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then 2 and 3 and 4 and

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are all muted

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Really a good technique

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to get used to with this thing

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where you're resting it on the guitar

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it does make it sound kind of heavy

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especially with a lot of distortion

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it gives that rock-metal sound

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but it also sounds cool

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with the blues

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If we think back to our regular

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12-bar blues rhythm

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we add a little bit of palm mute

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sounds pretty cool, I reckon like that

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No palm mute

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with the palm mute back on

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It is definitely something that
you want to check out there

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A little bit of palm mute
on your 12-bar blues

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always sounds good

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so have a little bit of an experiment
with this palm mute

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See if you can learn to listen to it

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so when you are listening to a track

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that you're trying to play
and you've got the tab out

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whatever and you're trying to figure it out

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or, even better, you're transcribing

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a song by yourself, just use your ears

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and try and hear "Oh, is he using
any palm mute there, or not?"

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and then, as you get used to it

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you hear it more and you've played it more

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you will start to recognize it
pretty quickly

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and be able to use it whenever you like

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So, I hope you've enjoyed that

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and I'll see you for another lesson

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sometime really soon

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Take care!

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Bye-bye