Intermediate Rhythm Guitar 5 (Guitar Lesson IM-155) How to play IF Stage 5
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0:11 - 0:13Hi, how're you doing, Justin here.
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0:13 - 0:15Welcome to IM-155,
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0:15 - 0:17which is a rhythm guitar lesson,
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0:17 - 0:22and we're going to be checking out chips, spreads,
splangs and muted strumming. -
0:22 - 0:25Now, I'm gonna be doing these on an electric guitar,
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0:25 - 0:27but you can do all of these techniques
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0:27 - 0:29and all of the other stuff that we've been doing so far
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0:29 - 0:32in this Foundation 5, on an acoustic too.
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0:32 - 0:34Just some of the techniques
kind of sound cooler on electric, -
0:34 - 0:37which is why I'm playing electric for this stage.
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0:37 - 0:40Now, the first thing we're gonna check out
is a thing called "chips". -
0:40 - 0:42Now, hopefully if you think back a little while,
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0:42 - 0:45you'll remember we did that snare hit,
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0:45 - 0:48where we learned to strum (plays)
with a little bit of a hit noise, -
0:48 - 0:55which kind of replicated the snare drum
that a drummer would play on beats 2 and 4. -
0:55 - 0:58Now, a very common kind of second guitar part,
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0:58 - 1:00-- or first guitar part, if you're playing with a keyboard and bass,
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1:00 - 1:02like a full band kinda setting --
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1:02 - 1:06is to play what we call "chips" on beats 2 and 4.
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1:06 - 1:09And a chip is a very, very short strum.
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1:09 - 1:10So, if you've got your chord,
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1:10 - 1:13I'm just gonna be using a G barre chord here.
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1:14 - 1:17I'm just turning my volume down a little bit,
so I can hit the guitar a bit hard. -
1:17 - 1:18So a chip would be:
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1:18 - 1:22. . .
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1:22 - 1:24Really, very, very short.
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1:24 - 1:27"Staccato" is the word for this very short sound.
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1:27 - 1:30. . .
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1:30 - 1:31TWO, three, FOUR.
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1:31 - 1:40One, TWO, three, FOUR.
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1:40 - 1:44It's that kind of thing. Very, very short little chords.
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1:44 - 1:49Now, I already mentioned to you
that they're happening on beats 2 and 4. -
1:49 - 1:51So, what you really listen to
when you listen to the song: -
1:51 - 1:52. . .
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1:52 - 1:53TWO, three, FOUR.
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1:53 - 2:00One, TWO, three, FOUR.
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2:00 - 2:04Don't be afraid to count until you get used to feeling
where 2 and 4 are. -
2:04 - 2:07Chips sometimes come on other beats.
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2:07 - 2:09There's a couple of famous examples that
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2:09 - 2:11they are kind of happening on the "and" after 4.
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2:11 - 2:14So, 1, 2, 3, 4 and (plays)
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2:14 - 2:161, 2, 3, 4 and (plays)
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2:16 - 2:19That kind of thing.
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2:19 - 2:22But, most commonly they happen on beats 2 and 4.
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2:22 - 2:24So, it's worth practicing counting along
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2:24 - 2:26and putting your chips on 2 and 4
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2:26 - 2:28There's a few things that you want to be aware of
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2:28 - 2:31that will help to get your chip really short, bright
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2:31 - 2:33and kinda tight.
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2:33 - 2:35And the first thing is the fretting hand.
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2:35 - 2:37Now, normally if you're doing this kind of chips,
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2:37 - 2:39you wouldn't be doing it with open chords.
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2:39 - 2:42You tend to do this kind of thing with barre chords,
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2:42 - 2:45and all kind of little versions of barre chords,
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2:45 - 2:48like the triad shapes that we looked at earlier,
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2:48 - 2:51or very commonly it's played this...
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2:51 - 2:54It's like an E shape barre chord
-- if I play a G chord -- -
2:54 - 2:57but we just play the thinnest four strings.
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2:57 - 2:59Now, actually let's go to a close-up
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2:59 - 3:01and check out a couple of the really common shapes
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3:01 - 3:03that we use for chips.
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3:04 - 3:06This is one of the most common grips
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3:06 - 3:07for playing chips.
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3:07 - 3:11It's essentially a small version
of our big E-Shape barre chord, -
3:11 - 3:13-- this is a G chord at the 3rd fret --
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3:13 - 3:16and you can see here, now,
we've just kind of done a smaller one, -
3:16 - 3:20we've dropped the barre down,
put the 3rd finger where the 4th finger was -
3:20 - 3:24(plays) and we end up with
this little four-string G chord. -
3:24 - 3:27It helps if the tip of the 3rd fret
is muting the 5th string. -
3:28 - 3:31Now, the lowest string can either be muted
by bringing your thumb over -
3:31 - 3:35or by the strumming hand
sitting on the thickest string. -
3:36 - 3:38Now, at this point I'd also like to explain to you
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3:38 - 3:38. . .
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3:38 - 3:42the idea of how you press down the chord
for the chip. -
3:42 - 3:46Because, what the idea is,
is that you'd leave your fingers in position. -
3:46 - 3:49So, my fingers are in the right spots now,
but they're not pressing down. -
3:49 - 3:52And then I press down, just at the moment as I strum
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3:52 - 3:53and then immediately relax again.
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3:53 - 3:57. . .
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3:57 - 4:00Now, I'm not doing any muting
with my strumming hand at all. -
4:00 - 4:02That's all left hand.
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4:02 - 4:05. . .
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4:05 - 4:07That's the idea, and it's really quite important
that you learn -
4:07 - 4:10how to do this "press & release", "press & release".
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4:10 - 4:13It's almost...
If I'm not pressing, then -
4:13 - 4:19. . .
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4:19 - 4:20I was just doing continuous strumming
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4:20 - 4:22which is not a bad little exercise
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4:22 - 4:24in order to get used to the idea of keeping them
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4:24 - 4:26. . .
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4:26 - 4:27really nice and short.
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4:28 - 4:31Now, the other...
That's a Major, that's a G Major. -
4:31 - 4:33The minor version (plays) would be that.
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4:33 - 4:36Just lifting off the 2nd finger, 3rd finger,
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4:36 - 4:381st finger playing a little barre.
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4:38 - 4:43. . .
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4:43 - 4:45Very, very common little grip that one,
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4:45 - 4:47for doing some chips.
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4:47 - 4:49Now, the other one that's very common
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4:49 - 4:51is this one: (plays)
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4:51 - 4:54which is...
Now, we have talked before about using... -
4:54 - 4:56... doing an A-Shape barre chord like this
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4:56 - 4:58using the 3rd finger to do a little barre.
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4:58 - 5:00When you're doing chips (plays), sometimes...
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5:00 - 5:03...'cause you really wanna hear
that thinnest string there, -
5:03 - 5:04people play it like this:
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5:04 - 5:07. . .
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5:07 - 5:09It's also easier to get this
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5:09 - 5:10really, really short press-on when you're doing that.
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5:10 - 5:14With the barre it's a little bit harder to get the press,
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5:14 - 5:17and it's exactly real hard to get that thinnest string.
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5:17 - 5:19So, usually when you're doing chips, (plays)
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5:19 - 5:20you'd probably play it this way:
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5:20 - 5:21. . .
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5:21 - 5:22That'd be the Major.
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5:22 - 5:23And the minor.
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5:23 - 5:26. . .
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5:26 - 5:27G Major.
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5:27 - 5:30. . .
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5:30 - 5:31G minor.
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5:31 - 5:33. . .
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5:33 - 5:35And the other really common one that gets used,
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5:35 - 5:37which is a shape that we haven't really looked at yet.
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5:37 - 5:39. . .
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5:39 - 5:41This would be a C-Shape barre chord.
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5:41 - 5:43Now, I don't really recommend
that you spend too much time on this one yet. -
5:43 - 5:45Can be a little bit tricky.
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5:45 - 5:46But the root note,...
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5:46 - 5:48Or the root note for the full chord
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5:48 - 5:50is with the little finger and the 2nd finger.
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5:50 - 5:53Just like it was an open C chord:
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5:53 - 5:54There's a regular C,
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5:54 - 5:56there's C without your first finger,
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5:56 - 6:00move it up two frets, 1st finger does a little barre.
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6:00 - 6:04But, what's really commonly played (plays)
is the thinnest four strings. -
6:04 - 6:06. . .
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6:06 - 6:07And this would be a D chord,
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6:07 - 6:08there's the root note, there,
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6:08 - 6:10we're just not playing the low root.
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6:10 - 6:14So we got there:
the 4th fret, 2nd fret, 3rd fret, 2nd fret. -
6:14 - 6:16So, the first finger's doing a little barre.
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6:16 - 6:24. . .
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6:24 - 6:26Really, really common little movements these.
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6:26 - 6:28So, you got G (plays)
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6:28 - 6:30G minor (plays)
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6:30 - 6:32C (plays)
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6:32 - 6:34C minor (plays)
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6:34 - 6:35and D.
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6:36 - 6:37Now you know what they sound like,
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6:37 - 6:40you're gonna find examples of chips
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6:40 - 6:41all over the place.
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6:41 - 6:42If you just keep an ear out now
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6:42 - 6:44you won't be able to avoid them.
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6:44 - 6:45They're in lots and lots of different songs,
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6:45 - 6:47in lots of different styles.
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6:47 - 6:48I'm going to put a list of songs
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6:48 - 6:50that use them really obviously,
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6:50 - 6:52on the web site.
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6:52 - 6:53The next technique we're going to check out
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6:53 - 6:55is called a "spread",
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6:55 - 6:57which is basically a slow motion strum.
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6:57 - 6:58Sounds kinda like this:
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6:58 - 7:14. . .
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7:14 - 7:16And what's really important with a spread,
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7:16 - 7:20is that you realize that it's the last note that you play
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7:20 - 7:22that lands on the beat.
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7:22 - 7:26The rest of the spread comes before the beat.
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7:26 - 7:28So, if we're doing it in really slow motion,
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7:28 - 7:29we're gonna gave like:
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7:29 - 7:31Three
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7:31 - 7:32Four
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7:32 - 7:35(plays) One.
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7:35 - 7:39So, literally, that last note wants to sit with the beat,
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7:39 - 7:40just at the end.
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7:40 - 7:42Takes a little bit of practice, but again:
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7:42 - 7:43if you've got your metronome on,
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7:43 - 7:46just practice making sure
that the last note of the chord -
7:46 - 7:50each time is the one that lands right on the beat.
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7:50 - 7:53Now, again, I'm going to put a list of some songs
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7:53 - 7:57that have good examples of spreads in them,
for you to go and listen to, -
7:57 - 7:59because, the best way to learn this kind of stuff
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7:59 - 8:01is to hear them being used in the real world.
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8:02 - 8:04The third rhythm technique
we're gonna check out today -
8:04 - 8:06is one called the "splang".
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8:06 - 8:08Now, I know "splang" is a bit of a funny word,
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8:08 - 8:11and to be honest, I don't really see it
written down that often, -
8:11 - 8:14but I've heard loads of producers
use it over the years, -
8:14 - 8:17and what it kinda means is: like a spread,
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8:17 - 8:18but it happens right on the beat,
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8:18 - 8:21and it usually just happens on beat 1.
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8:21 - 8:24It's normally played as a second guitar part.
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8:24 - 8:26So, if there's one guy playing
like your normal kind of strumming, -
8:26 - 8:28on electric or acoustic, it wouldn't matter,
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8:28 - 8:31you'd end up doing this as an overdub.
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8:31 - 8:33So, like recording a second guitar part.
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8:33 - 8:35Normally it'd be played something like this.
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8:35 - 8:37So: 2, 3, 4.
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8:37 - 8:451 (plays), 2, 3, 4.
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8:45 - 8:50(plays), 2, 3, 4.
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8:50 - 8:51Set nicely, just right on the beat.
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8:51 - 8:54. . .
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8:54 - 8:57It's also a good thing if you've got a keyboard player
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8:57 - 8:59that's playing a whole lot of stuff in your band.
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8:59 - 9:00Sometimes playing rhythm,
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9:00 - 9:02or if there's two guitar players playing rhythm,
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9:02 - 9:05there's lots of reasons why
sometimes you don't want to play too much. -
9:05 - 9:09Sometimes you need the dynamic of the song
to kind of sit down a little bit, -
9:09 - 9:11and you don't want to keep strumming all the time.
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9:11 - 9:16So, you can add in a few splangs here and there
for, say a verse. -
9:16 - 9:18You wouldn't just kinda throw one in randomly,
I must say. -
9:18 - 9:19You normally would do it.
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9:19 - 9:23A good place for a splang is the third verse,
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9:23 - 9:25so the verse that comes after the first chorus,
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9:25 - 9:28'cause that part of the song usually kinda
dies down a little bit, -
9:28 - 9:29the dynamic of it.
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9:29 - 9:34So, if you can insert some splangs there,
in the third verse, -
9:34 - 9:37you'll find that the kind of the dynamic of the tune
drops a little bit -
9:37 - 9:39and you can build up again for the next chorus,
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9:39 - 9:41and then the bridge and the double chorus and out.
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9:42 - 9:44Learning to kind of arrange the songs
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9:44 - 9:48and using these kind of techniques
to create a kind of a dynamic to the tune, -
9:48 - 9:50is a really important kind of part of,
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9:50 - 9:53getting from kind of begginery kind of songs where
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9:53 - 9:55you're just playing the same strumming
all of the way through -
9:55 - 9:58and you don't really think about stuff like
dynamics or the build of a song, -
9:58 - 10:01and that's the kind of thing
that you want to start thinking about now -
10:01 - 10:03and that I want you to start paying attention to. So,
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10:03 - 10:05whenever you listen to a song,
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10:05 - 10:07see if you can keep an ear out on
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10:07 - 10:09exactly how they are arranging
the guitars in the song, -
10:09 - 10:11'cause you'll find, most of the time,
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10:11 - 10:14it's not exactly the same
all of the way through the song. -
10:14 - 10:16There'll be other bits: a second guitar here,
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10:16 - 10:19or the first guitar on drop out for a little while,
that kind of thing. So, -
10:19 - 10:20have a listen to it
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10:20 - 10:24and listen now that I've mentioned a couple of
these different kind of common -
10:24 - 10:26overdub techniques, or second guitar techniques.
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10:26 - 10:30Have a listen and say where they occur, you know.
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10:31 - 10:34Cool! They're good fun, and they'll make
a big difference to your playing. -
10:35 - 10:38Now, the last thing we are gonna check out
is the muted strum. -
10:38 - 10:40Now, this sounds really cool on acoustic guitar,
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10:40 - 10:42but it sounds great on electric as well.
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10:42 - 10:46And the basic idea is that
instead of having a regular strum with no muting, -
10:46 - 10:47like going, you know:
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10:47 - 10:49. . .
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10:49 - 10:51Just to pick a really easy chord progression:
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10:51 - 10:52down, down-up, up-down.
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10:52 - 10:54You do the same thing, but you rest
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10:54 - 10:58the outside part of your strumming hand palm,
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10:58 - 11:00just on the edge of the bridge,
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11:00 - 11:03where the string kinda meet the bridge.
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11:04 - 11:07Of course, it means that you're not making
a big movement with your arm any more, -
11:07 - 11:09you're just making a little movement with your hand, you know
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11:09 - 11:12. . .
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11:12 - 11:14That would be: down, down-up, up-down.
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11:14 - 11:16down, down-up, up-down.
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11:16 - 11:17And you can see it's got a different...
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11:17 - 11:20it's got a bit more kinda chugginess to it.
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11:20 - 11:21Sounds different.
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11:21 - 11:31. . .
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11:31 - 11:33It's a really, really good fun thing
to get into doing this. -
11:33 - 11:36And you will find that it kind of
changes the whole tune, a souse. -
11:36 - 11:37You know, if I'm going:
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11:37 - 11:42. . .
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11:42 - 11:43You can play there:
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11:43 - 11:50. . .
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11:50 - 11:52It's got a whole different kind of vibe to it. So,
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11:52 - 11:54getting into this muted strum, it's just easy.
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11:54 - 11:55It is, literally,
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11:55 - 11:58just the same old strumming patterns
that you've been checking out, -
11:58 - 12:02but trying to get that outside of the palm
sitting on the strings. -
12:02 - 12:03That doesn't have to sit there ALL the time,
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12:03 - 12:05and this is kind of the cool thing about it.
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12:05 - 12:07It's not kind of so rigid,
you don't wanna be going like: -
12:07 - 12:09(playing) down, down-up, up-down.
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12:09 - 12:11down, down-up, up-down.
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12:11 - 12:13Because it just kinda... what...
it hasn't got any life, -
12:13 - 12:14it hasn't got any vibe.
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12:14 - 12:17So, it's kind of about the hand lifting up a bit.
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12:17 - 12:19. . .
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12:19 - 12:20up, up-down.
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12:20 - 12:22down, down-up, up.
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12:22 - 12:25So, for both those "up's" (plays)
they're kinda without the mute: -
12:25 - 12:27Down, down-up, up-down,
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12:27 - 12:29down, down-up, up-down.
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12:29 - 12:34. . .
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12:34 - 12:35Do you get the idea? Just experiment!
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12:35 - 12:39Have a go at trying to do
some strumming patterns that you like, -
12:39 - 12:41the ones that you feel are kind of groovy,
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12:41 - 12:42with a little bit of this kind of
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12:42 - 12:44muted strumming technique.
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12:44 - 12:46Well, I hope that's given you a few new techniques
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12:46 - 12:49that you can incorporate
into your rhythm guitar playing. -
12:49 - 12:53It really makes a big difference
if you start thinking about the dynamics of the tunes. -
12:53 - 12:55So, make sure you listen to the songs
that you really like, -
12:55 - 13:01and see if you can steal their ideas
and steal their kind of... form of their dynamics. -
13:01 - 13:04Like where the song is loud, where the song is quiet.
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13:04 - 13:07Try and get incorporating these techniques
as soon as you can, -
13:07 - 13:08because it's really the playing of them
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13:08 - 13:11that will help them work their way into your playing.
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13:11 - 13:13If you just think about them
and practice them by themselves, -
13:13 - 13:16they won't probably ever happen
naturally in your playing. -
13:16 - 13:17It's through playing it a lot,
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13:17 - 13:20that they'll start to become instinctive and natural.
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13:20 - 13:22OK, hope you've had fun with that.
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13:22 - 13:24I'll see you for another lesson very soon.
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13:24 - 13:26Take care of yourselves, bye-bye.
- Title:
- Intermediate Rhythm Guitar 5 (Guitar Lesson IM-155) How to play IF Stage 5
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Justin's Completely Free, Intermediate Guitar Course Lesson IM-155.
Stage 5, Lesson 5.This lesson we check out chips, spreads and splangs and some muted strumming! Interesting techniques to add some variety to your rhythm playing!
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