The Wonderful Tonight intro is a great snippet of music to go over some string bending fundamentals. There is a video showing a few ways to play this intro with tips on bending accurately. There are 2 PDF’s you can download. One is in 8th position and starts on the 2nd string. The other shows how to play the intro in 12th position starting on the 3rd string. The latter also shows two alternate ways to play the end of the intro.
Month: February 2021
Hybrid Picking Exercises Using Triads –
A very useful right hand technique is known as HYBRID PICKING. That just means using a flat pick and your fingers combined. The benefit is that you can do all the finger picking stuff and still have a flat pick in your hand for the flat pick stuff. This is really popular in the country guitar community but guitarists from other styles take advantage of this, as well. Here are some exercises to help you get that going if you have never or are just starting to use this technique.
Triads in the key of F will be used here as a vehicle for these exercises. Triads are basic three note chords made up of a root, a major or minor third, and a perfect or flatted fifth. These variables determine whether the triad is major, minor, or diminished.
So download the PDF's (there are two) and go through the exercises if this technique interests you. Remember to play as slow as you need.
Click the buttons below for the PDF notation. Also take a look at the video that shows each exercise.