Beginner Acoustic Jam Track 1 - One String Wonder

Now we're gonna play along to a jam track, which is an example of how we can use spreads and playing on the beat, but just with one string. We're gonna do that with a very small picking motion with a slight twist of the wrist, and the only string we're playing. Is string 6, we're gonna start off by hitting string 6 once, at the open string. We're then gonna fret fret number 5, which is an ear nut. And then we're gonna fret fret 7. These are at the 2nd and 3 dots on my guitar, though that can vary depending on where your fretboard markers are on your guitar. And to start with, we picked the open string, 234, fret, fret 5. 234, fret 7. 234, and then back to fret 5. Bonus point, if you can use finger 3, the ring finger. To fret the B note at fret 7. But if you can just use your first finger or even your middle finger, that's absolutely fine. Zero expectations at this point, we're just working with whatever happens and going with it, but this is really all about your timing and picking a single string. We're going to do that twice where we just pick once. P Notes, and then we're gonna play each note 4 times and this is gonna be at 60 BPM, which is a nice resting heartbeat, nice and slow. So this will then move after doing the first one twice, we do 1234123412. 1234. Repeat the exercise as many times as is needed, the full thing is just 2 minutes long. Try and aim for playing the whole thing from start to finish, and the audio track alone will be down below, but you can play along to me in this video as many times as you like. Let's give this a go. OK, join in with me, starting off with spreads, single notes in one. 2 123. And one. 34. You can use your first finger for both the fretted notes if you wish. Spreads once more again, ah. 34. 23, 3rd finger is even better, middle finger's also great for that B note. OK, on the beat, here we go, 341234. And we're over halfway, keep it going. 2 more times, doing great. Keep it going. Picking at the same time as me, and joining in. One more time. Here we go. Small twist of the wrist still, smaller picking motion as possible. And finish on one last pick of the open string. And that is all there is to it, hopefully that went well for you. If you were joining in at the same time as me, then that is what we're looking for and picking at the same time as me. If that wasn't naturally happening, one thing you wanna be aware of is to play in time, you need to calibrate and constantly speed up and slow down, rather than. Uh thinking about ourselves as computers and going 60 BPM go, we, and then staying the same, we can't stay the same all the way through, we have to make small adjustments. I was a little bit late that time, a little bit early this time, and calibrating that every time we pick or strum, so we get the result of when I play and you play, we get one sound, one sound, rather than the sound of like. One sound and then another sound, same time, same time, and you're constantly slowing down or speeding up to calibrate that. Give that another go if you need, and once you can do that, I'll see you in the next video.