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Hi, how'ya doing, Justin here.
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Welcome to this lesson on
basic Travis picking.
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Now Travis picking gets it's name from
the great Merle Travis,
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a country guitar picker and his
picking style was subsequently stolen
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by anyone who played fingerstyle
accoustic guitar. It sounds really cool
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and it's a great technique to learn.
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Now it's basically a little bit more
complicated version of the thumb
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moving around that we've looked at
previously, but in order to help your
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development overall as well, we're now
going to be applying this to
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some barre chords. To really make sure
that you got your barre chords good as well.
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So, let's get to a close-up, we're gonna be
using a C, A-shape barre chord.
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Which is (plays) this one,
you're gonna see it in the close-up
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in a second; I'm gonna show you a close-up
first of all of the fretting hand and then
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we'll go to the close-up of the picking
hand to see what all the fuss is about.
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Ok, here we are for our C chord.
Now this is of course an A-shape
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barre chord,-with the 1st finger on the
root note C,- at the 3rd fret,
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you don't tuck your 2nd finger like that,
I'm just doing it to keep things nice and
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simple for you to see. Now, what we want
to get used to the idea of here is the 1st
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finger moving between the note C and the
note G. The pattern we're learning is this:
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So, just get use to the idea of this 1st
finger moving
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Let's check out the picking hand!
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The big deal with this Travis picking is
the movement of the thumb.
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And instead of just alternating between
two strings that we've had before
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when we looked at our pattern, (♪)
our thumb is now gonna go:
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5th string, 4th string,
6th string, 4th string.
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Which is why we had a look at the
1st finger moving over between the
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5th string and the 6th string.
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Now but don't use a barre, move
your 1st finger!
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So, the 1st pattern we're going to look at
is basically our very simple pattern 1:
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That was the original one,
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but now we're gonna be going:
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Again, you'd gonna have to probably do
this very slowly, I really struggled
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the first time I learned this, so I'd
expect you guys, to at least have a
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bit of fun with it. Really slowly:
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together:
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Thumb, 1, thumb on the thickest string,
2nd finger, thumb back on the 4th string.
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If you're really struggling to hold your
barre chord down, and you see a barre chord,
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just use our regular open A chord:
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you will get the kind of the bottom 2
string ringing out a little bit,
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which sounds a bit funny to my ear,
but at least you can kind of get used to
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the thumb movement there, that's what's
really important is,...getting this:
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you know, just practicing that is a really
good idea for this kind of pattern.
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Then introduce the other fingers.
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So that's pattern 13.
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Pattern 14:
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Exactly like our pattern 2,
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but with this new Travis Picking.
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And of course, you would then start to
merge 13 and 14 together.
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You can really hear...
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just sounds cool.
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A lot of the times these guys have a
little bit of kinda mute on there as well.
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So you get that... I'm just resting my
palm of my hand there:
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Ok, pattern 15 and 16 where I'm to now,
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I'm using a G barre chord
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An E-shape barre chord at the 3rd fret.
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Hopefully you know how to play that,
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now, all of the 6th string root patterns
we've checked out so far,
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had the thumb bouncing between
the 6th string and the 4th string.
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Now what we're doing for our
Travis picking is, we're going:
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6th string, 4, 5, 4
6, 4, 5, 4
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So that's where it starts
to get a bit more complicated.
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Again, you gonna have to just do these
really slowly.
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It's still then same pattern with the rest
of the fingers as we've been looking,
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as same as pattern 1 for the C chord, or
pattern 3 for the G chord would've been
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having this 2nd finger on the beat and
then the 1st finger on the end after 2 and then
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back to that finger; That pattern.
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That's the original pattern we would
have had on the G.
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Then just try and break out that...
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the thumb, into moving over doing
to the 5th string.
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I would highly recommend doing
what I'm doing now.
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I've just...doing 6th, 4, 5, 4
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Just doing that quite a few times
to get the thumb used to moving
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onto the 5th string.
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And then introduce those other notes.
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Again, really slowly and gradually
build up the speed is what you want.
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Now, pattern 16: exactly the same as
our pattern 4 was originally.
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There's pattern 4: ♪
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And 16 now, we're now just again
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moving it onto our Travis picking
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I'm sure you're gonna have a whole
lot of fun with your Travis picking,
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It is a little bit tricky and it takes a
little bit of practice, but nearly all
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of the things that sound really cool
require quite a bit of practice and
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this is one of them. I'm gonna show you
a cool little country trick as well,
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that I think you might enjoy.
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I was really stoked when I
discovered this thing.
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Hopefully you remember your C7 open chord.
Right? If you move that C chord up 2 frets
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you're on a D chord.
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Now, if we use pattern 2:
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what I'm doing is moving my 3rd finger
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over to the 6th string.
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5th string:
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6th string:
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Sounds pretty cool.
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Now, you can do it with the Blues.
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Using D, G, back to D
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G
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It's a really fun little pattern.
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A
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G
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Back down to D
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And you can kind of develop this
idea quite a lot.
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Hope you'll have fun with that,
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take care, and I'll see you for
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the last lesson in this series,
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which is adding in hammer-ons
and flick-offs to our patterns.
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Just kind of tricky enough already.
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And now we're gonna b introducing
some new stuff.
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So, I'm sure you're gonna enjoy that too.
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See you very soon, bye-bye!