Introduction to the 3rd & 4th Strings Classical Guitar Technique

Video Transcript

"Hi my name is John Armstrong with expertvillage.com I'm a professional guitar instructor and today we are going to be discussing beginning classical guitar. Next I will like to discuss the notes on the third string. We already have a G which is going to be played on the upper G string that note is the second line from the bottom open G. The next note on that same string would be the A which is placed in a space second from the bottom. The second from the bottom space and we play it the second fret using your second finger. Next I will like to discuss the notes from the 4th string the D string we are going to have the open D note which lies right below the staff. The E note which is the bottom space which is played on the second fret using your second finger on the 4th string. The F note which is the bottom space 3rd fret 3rd finger. So we have learn the 5 new notes the open G,A, and the 4th string the D,E and F. The next exercise that I'm going to give you is in 4,4 times and uses the G notes and the A notes in addition to some of the Bs, Cs, and Ds that we have learned in previous lessons. It is in 4,4 time alternating once again between your I and M fingers using rest strokes as usual. Give your self a blank measure in order to get started 1,2 ready begin and 1,2,3,4,1,2,3,4,1,2,3,4 and 1,2, then 3,4 and 1,2,3,4,1,2,3,4,1,2,3,4,1,2, and 3,4. You may have also heard in the previous exercise and this one included that sometimes you will see me doing this. This is vibrato. The vibrato technique which in the classical guitar differs a lot from what we could do what we do on a steel string. On the classical guitar we do a vibrato very slur to what a violinist or a cello or a oboe player would do where we roll the finger tip back and forth. This is something that I'm incorporating it just kind of adds a little excitement to some of the notes and it is another thing that you could do just rolling the finger tip back and forth. You could practice your vibrato once it feels like you are starting to accomplish these exercise and master these exercise you could start to incorporate some vibrato once in the fretted notes so that you are once again practicing one more element of classical guitar which in this case it would be vibrato technique. While also learning and practicing your reading and your right hand alternating between I and M fingers using rest strokes. Try to get the most out of your practice time. "