Raking technique - Rock Guitar Lesson - Guitar Tricks 51 -

Hey , everybody Neil here from the guitar tricks channel .

Got a new li lesson .

Little lesson and to tip of the week for you .

Lesson of the week is on the raking technique .

Show you that in a minute , tip of the week is uh if you're looking for some inspiration , you're kind of stuck , you want to try something new .

What do these four guitar players have in common ?

Eddie Van Halen , Stevie , Rayvon Jimi Hendrix and slash .

They all tuned a half step down to E flat .

That's right on their biggest albums .

They all tuned to E flat and there's something about it .

Not only does it make your strings a little looser , makes your guitar easier to play , but it gives a little more edge to the sound , especially of power chords .

Anyway , that's the tip of the week .

Uh Lesson of the week is on raking this sound right here .

It's a really good precursor to sweet picking .

And I know there's a lot of guys out there that have been asking me to do a sweet picking lesson and I'm not like a major sweet picking guy , but this is a really good way to get started because it's , it's half of the technique of sweet picking .

I'm gonna show you how to do it in lead style and also how to do it in rhythm style .

Basically , what you're doing is if you mute the strings and drag your pick across the strings , that's the essence of the raking style and usually end it with a note like this .

So you can use it for leads and rhythm .

I'm gonna give a example with a 12 bar blues in a .

So you can hear how it sounds in a rhythmic fashion .

Here we go .

Now , you might watch some videos online about the raking technique .

You'll see guys tell you that to mute with your index finger and then do it like that .

But I find that really uncomfortable .

So what I like to do instead is to do a palm muting to stop those other strings from ringing out .

If I was gonna do a raking technique and a lead style , I might do something like this or something like this .

So this is one little technique that you can add , you're playing , especially if you're starting out learning solos and you just , you just hear the basic notes ringing out .

You want to add some flavor , some texture , a little emotion .

This is a great way to do it .

Hopefully , this helps you out .

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We'll be back here in about seven days .

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Have a great week , play your guitar .

It's good for you .

Make you live longer .

Yeah .