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EBS Lesson Four  Developing rhythm for rock grooves

Technique store – using all four fingers

Numbering of the fingers of the left hand (the fretting hand)

Numbering of the fingers of the right hand (the hand that picks the strings)

The fingers of the left hand are numbered from 1 to 4, with the index finger being number 1 through to the little finger being number 4. The Thumb has no number and is referred to as the Thumb (T).

Now that you have started to play using the third finger, you need also to be able to play using your second and fourth fingers as well. We will run the same exercise again, but this time using in turn your first, second, third and fourth fingers, so that you can play using any of your four fingers.

Watch our technique store video so that you can see what you have to do. The same technique is then practised in the remaining four exercises in this lesson, which will mean that you can play all the notes you have learned so far, with any of your four fingers.

Video 1. Developing finger technique

Exercise 4. Playing A

Exercise 4
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