Chords for Picking Techniques for the steel guitar

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_ _ _ _ _ _ Okay, today I'm going to _ shed some light on the right hand picking technique for the left
still and the dobro _ _ and _ I want to go over some _ _ _ _ practices with you. _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ First we're going to cover the alternating picking _ technique and that's whether it be _ _
the thumb pick and the first finger such as this.
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_ Playing one note with your thumb and one note with your pick, _ _ _ _ _ make a practice session of
doing that on one string _ and _ _ then _ _ trade the thumb pick _ _ for the second finger or the middle
finger _ _ and do the same thing until you get comfortable _ and _ _ _ _ you can do that real smooth.
Start off slow and _ _ _ _ _ gradually work your speed [Em] up. _ _ _ _ _
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[Em] Change strings, _ _ _ _ _
_ _ [B] _ change fingers _ _
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then work on [A] the frets.
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_ _ _ [Em] _ _ _ Maybe work [A] on your scale work like _ _ [Db] _
_ alternate _ _ the [Bm] finger.
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[A] _ _ _ With every note you alternate the finger and make a practice of doing that.
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Okay, now _ I want you to, _ _ if you would, I want you to practice a little bit of that every
day to get your fingers to where you develop a muscle memory and you can _ _ _ _ alternate picks smooth.
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now the next part of what I want to share with you is a forward roll _ and a backward roll.
_ Now a forward roll is with your, you start off with your thumb pick _ and you play on three
strings _ like strings one, two and three but you pick the first note with your thumb, _ _ [B] _ second
note with your first finger _ and the third note with [E] your _ middle finger. _
_ _ _ So that's a forward roll.
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_ [B] _ Now the next thing we're going to discuss is a backward roll _ [Em] and that's where you start
with your middle finger, _ _ [B] _
you play the next note down with your first finger _ _ and then
the third note you play with your [E] thumb pick _ _ _ _ _ [A] and those notes sound. _ _
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A prime example of _ _ _ _ _ _ the forward roll would be the lesson that we studied in the steel
guitar rag where _ _ the part [Gm] goes, _ _ _ [E] _
_ _ _ or actually that's a [Cm] backward roll.
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_ [E] _ _ _ _ Okay. _
_ _ _ So now we got the alternating picking to work on _ _ _ _ _ with both fingers, _ we've got the forward
roll, _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
we've got the backward roll. _ _ _ _ _
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_ I want to work on those picking techniques _ _ until _ you can get smooth enough to go across
the strings _ _ _ with [B] _ _
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[Ab] your alternating picking.
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_ You change fingers _ _ and [B] _ _ _ _ [E] _ _
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then start working on the forward roll, _ _ _ _ _ _ change string groupings _ _ _ _ _ _
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_ _ _ _ and then the backward roll.
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If you work on these picking techniques a little bit every day you'll soon be _ _ developed
_ or you'll develop muscle memory and _ it'll just help your overall picking.
_ Thank you very much.