Lesson 8
In the seventh lesson you learned to play Everybody Hurts By REM
In this lesson, we will have a look at what a 'flageolet' is. I think some of you may heva heard this term before. A flageolet is the sound you get when you put your finger on a string, but not press it completely. Just put your finger on it gently, and then play the sound. The way you put your finger on the string has to be very gentle in order to actually hear this high, a bit squeaking, flageolet sound. People who know the song 'Jeremy' by Pearl Jam, should know what I mean. That song begins with a bass loop and the two flageolets. You can practise it by playing this sequence of notes:
E -5---12------------ B ---7----12--------- G -----------5--7---- D ---------------7--- A ----------------7-- E -------------------
To play solo's, there are a few techniques you should definitely learn: hammer on, pull of and
slide. Even though the words itself explain what they mean, I will try to explain it too.
A hammer on is played by hammering your fingers on the strings. So you play one string normally,
and then hammer on that same string a few frets down, to get a nice sound without actually having to
touch the string again with you other hand. For example:
H
^
E ---------5---7----
B ------------------
G ---H--------------
D ---^--------------
A -0---2------------
E ------------------
First you play the E string normally on the 5th fret , and after then you hammer it on the seventh fret.
Do the same for the A string. The ^H of course means it is a hammer-on.
A pull-of is the exact opposite of the hammer-on. You can get a sound from a string without playing it,
but just by gently pulling your finger off the string.
For example:
P
^
E ---------7---5----
B ------------------
G ---P--------------
D ---^--------------
A -2---0------------
E ------------------
Put your fingers on fret 5 and 7, play the string and the pull of the finger at fret 7, and listen to the
nice sound (and the difference!). Do the same for the A string.
I think the slide is probably the best know solo technique, and the easiest to learn as well. The word
'slide' says it alreay: slide your finger over the string from one fret to another during the same tone.
Have a look at this:
slide
^
E --slide--5---7----
B ---^--------------
G -2---5------------
D ------------------
A ------------------
E ------------------
Play the E string on fret 5 and then slide your finger to the seventhe fret. Also try this for the G string,
fret 2 and 5 (the distance is a bit bigger here, so that should be harder).
Well, there you go, you made a start at playing solos!!
This was the eighth guitar lesson. You can practise this at home until you understand exactly what I wrote here. The next lesson will be here soon!
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