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Alright
there's that reggae groove from
my arrangement of Bury Me Not On The Lone Prairie and again
we've got the bass string tuned down to D the so-called drop D tuning
and in the previous two lessons we were looking at note duration and dynamics
so now let's add some thoughts about
articulating this We're gonna give a little character to the bass line were gonna
give a little character to the chords to
you know create just a little more texture in this piece and
this is, these are subjects
under the general heading articulations that you'll find in the
section on texture in my Alex de Grassi Fingerstyle Guitar Method Book
alright well one of the things I'm trying to do here is
sound a little bit like a bass player so if I go
so if you notice I'm using a
a glissando or a slide and I'm trying to give it kind of a
slightly lazy behind the beat feel I'm mixing short notes
with sustained notes and it gives the bass in this case kind of a melodic
character so the textures
that I'm using an addition to the gliss or the slide
would be that the staccato quality
which we discussed in the in the
mini lesson on duration but it should be
thought of as a texture as well as not just creating shorter notes
another thing I do sometimes is fret the
the notes on top of the fret
so-called fret muting
this way you don't really need to lower the
right-hand down onto the strings so but
this is effective technique for
just damping individual notes
that kind of thing
now the other texture
that I'm using quite a bit is I am also fret muting with the chord itself so
when I play this bar chord for example
Bm7 and I'm letting up really quickly on the strings
the combination gives it sort of
very dry sound
occasionally if I let up if
I turn that into a harmonic like
and usually I cut off the harmonic so it doesn't
its kind of a damped harmonic
I'm not lifting this finger entirely off the string so this would be another
texture or articulation that is also found in my section on texture in my book
Alex de Grassi Fingerstyle Guitar Method Book