New Techniques - The Trill
If you’ve practiced everything in the book well, your Blues playing should be sounding pretty good by now. In this lesson you will learn a few more techniques which can add extra expression to your playing and make it sound more professional and authentic.
The first of these is the trill. A trill is a rapid succession of hammer-ons and pull-offs, with only the first note being picked. The trill is indicated by the symbol Tr above or below the two notes concerned, with the first note being shown as a grace note. Listen to the following example on the recording to hear the effect of the trill.
Here is a lick which makes use of the trill. Experiment with adding trills to some of your own licks.
Class Sessions
1- Arpeggios
2- New Techniques - The Trill
3- The Minor Pentatonic Scale
4- The Blues Scale
5- INTRODUCTION
6- Sixteenth Note Rhythms
7- Understanding Rhythms
8- The Major Pentatonic Scale
9- More on Eighth Note Rhythms
10- The Triplet
11- Five Forms of the Pentatonic Scale
12- Syncopation
13- Minor Arpeggios
14- Enharmonic Notes
15- Swing Rhythms
16- Combining Scales
17- Set Rhythms
18- Common Sixteenth Note Figures
19- Identifying Scale Patterns
20- Tremolo
21- Fretboard Diagrams
22- The Shuffle Rhythm
23- Dominant Seventh Arpeggios
24- The Rake
25- Using Ties
26- Scale Degrees
27- Left-Hand Fingers
28- Twelve Note Positions for Triplets
29- Combining Scales and Arpeggios
30- Analyzing What You Play
31- Tablature
32- Staccato
33- Set Rhythms Using Triplet Figures
34- Twelve Eight Time
35- Tablature Symbols
36- Thirty Second Notes
37- Playing With Pick and Fingers
38- Jam Along Progressions
39- Listening