Playing in Open E with Jed Clark
advanced guitar
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- 1 Guitar Bends with Zeb Snyder
- 2 Playing in Open E with Jed Clark — you are here
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- 4 Pushin' Rhythm Licks!
- 5 The Wray Wrhythm Wrun
It's not the Jed Clark doesn't like capos...he just forgets to use them quite often. We'll learn more about Jed's approach to playing guitar without a capo, particularly crosspicking and rhythm in the key of E.
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Gary Feldman ·
My fingers know it but my brain doesn't yet — I can't play it without the tab in front of me. How do you all commit these to memory?
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flatpick_dad ·
Try it without the pick for a few passes. Sounds silly but it told me my right hand was doing too much.
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Sharon Kile ·
That's the one that made me finally understand backup. Stick with it.
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Katie Clark Support ·
Great question. That's a slide going into the B part — I play it as a slide but a hammer-on works fine if that's cleaner for you. Do what sounds right.
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Sam Whitlock ·
Welcome aboard — you picked a good one to start on.
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Sam Whitlock ·
Try it without the pick for a few passes. Sounds silly but it told me my right hand was doing too much.
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Marcy Kern ·
Metronome at 60 and no faster until it's clean twice through. Boring but it works.