"Travis picking is when you have a constant baseline with your thumb and then you have some melody notes or accompaniment on top."
"You want to keep your hands close to the fretboard... that's control."
"You can get so much more emotion out of those chords if you learn to play them in different spots."
"Find the way that works best for you in strumming."
"Playing for the song is key—technique should serve the music."
"Prince knew that you could use pauses and silence for suspense, for building, for impact, and 'Kiss' is a perfect example of that."
"If your grace notes aren't super quiet off the drum head."
"Muting strings with your thumb is extremely important. You want to always be muting strings you're not playing."
"So I'll take these power chords and instead of just, you know, hitting them once, I'm actually just going to palm mute them and I'm also going to syncopate the chord changes."
"It's pretty cool how they delay with the minor chords going back and forth into the five chord - a clever technique."
"Hot cue play is all about creating patterns and rhythm."
"That's something that Tchami does, just to reiterate that groove, make it really solid."
"His use of spatialization... like what some of the European modernists like Carl and Stockhausen were doing."
"It's really important that it doesn't sound artificial and that it's mimicking the drummer's intensity and playing perfectly."
"The chop chord is a chord that you can turn off with your left hand; you can turn it on with the strum and then you can stop it with that hand."
"Another mandolin specific technique that a lot of players use is double stops."
"We only have to shift up for A sharp, which in the live context sounds really good."
"In creating a bass run, you'll often get a better effect by descending in the line rather than ascending."
"When you strum, you want to think about painting the strings."
"Just pay attention to your thumb and make sure it's always on the beat."
"All the licks you learn last week will work on both in both areas."
"The next thing that I want to talk to you about is if you have a MIDI keyboard, actually replaying these chords and recording them to get that realistic feel."
"These concepts are so easy to do, and they give you really cool sounds, and you're probably already doing it, you might not even realize it."
"One of the most important elements of playing Blues is your vibrato, especially how you add it on top of a string bend."
"Every drummer should seriously consider this technique."
"String bending on the guitar is definitely very common and very popular."
"The secret to the perfect foot placement on your pedal also happens to be the key to playing fast."
"Throw in the dominant seven just to blues it up a little bit, it gives a little more soul."
"Use your ears, there's no one method to tuning a drum."
"I love slides because they'll give your playing a really bluesy sound."
"Turns have a really nice kind of flashy sound to them."
"Reverb works wonderfully on acoustic guitar and definitely on heavy rock guitars as well."
"It's a very good idea to learn to play legato without pedal, especially in pieces like a Bacha Lemon."
"I need a heavy pick to play fast."
"One cool trick is to combine your overdrive pedal and your distortion pedal."
"Without good technique, it's going to be incredibly difficult to play controlled at quiet volumes."
"The boom chicka strum gives you skills that you can use for a big variety of music."
"Bend away... he's taking just a single note and turning it into something extremely interesting."
"It always works to move into a chord tone a little bit better."
"If you just take two different takes, one hard on the left and one hard on the right, you have got a massive guitar tone that really doesn't need any other overdubs."
"Proper separation... can be done through range, tone color, articulation, and rhythm."
"EQ is a very, very vital part in the mixing process that you need to have down."
"Then you have sul ponticello, which creates a kind of eerie, cold, glassy timber."
"The crucial golden rule of this style of strumming is this arm, this hand, just needs to be a pendulum, an eternal pendulum of constant motion."
"If you're wanting to make your grooves sound more interesting with more depth and character, ghost notes are such a great way to spice them up."
"This way of switching between minor and major pentatonic... I've seen a lot of other players do it as well."
"Playing with your fingers has a very round and natural and full sound to it."
"His use of alternate tunings is pretty apparent on a multitude of songs."
"The whole trick to this game that we're in is keeping the middle of the lip free to oscillate."
"It's supposed to be like a wave, so think about that when you're plucking."
"When we're playing the saxophone, we always want to be blowing warm air, and that's going to result in a much richer sound."
"Without the palm mute, it really sounds different. The tone is so different."
"Try just playing the arpeggio notes consistently all the way through a standard."
"If you want to start sounding really melodic with your playing, give that chord something that's already in it as soon as it shows up."
"You learn the actual chords that are in there as arpeggios."
"I don't do as much volume pedal work unless it's just necessary, but I still love the effect."
"When it comes to slap technique, triplets are often associated with fills and soloistic ideas."
"A lot of times when they're playing a solo, they'll play something in the lower registry, then to give it just a really more character, you'll play something an octave higher."
"I've got a cool trick that you can use to create harmonies if you only have one lead vocal to work with."
"When the lead guitar comes in, we can carve out and compress some of the frequencies in the rhythm guitars so that our lead has more of a presence in the mix."
"It's easy for us to put the attack and release up and then forget about it... but one of the best ways to make your pad feel like it's evolving more is by increasing the release and increasing decay and lowering down the sustain."
"If you can play soft, you'll be able to play loudly."
"Before you go searching for a certain mouthpiece or trying to sound like another saxophone player, the first thing you have to do is get your airstream figured out."
"Your sound comes from the way you put your air into the saxophone, and your gear just helps tweak it and make it sound better."
"You can use your fingers too, I use fingers and pick, it's called hybrid picking."
"Sometimes it's cool just to take a little bit more time to get to the note you're trying to get to with a bend."
"Once you get comfortable with letting notes ring out, it's just going to make your playing sound that much better."
"Palm muting is one of the more necessary skills the more songs that you learn to play."
"Adding a palm mute can drastically change the way a song sounds."
"It's all about the right hand technique."
"We should be able to play the clarion register without the aid of the register key."
"Circular breathing is very critical to learn where you are able to play continuously without stopping for air."
"The vast majority of what's going to get you your high notes is how good you are at voicing and overtones."
"So Mark Knopfler very famously uses his fingers instead of a pick, which in my opinion, gives him more dynamic control and definitely makes his delivery more unique."
"A smooth legato is a color, cantilena, a long melodic line; these are the violin's strengths."
"We're going to focus on Dynamics, and I'm going to show you how with just an acoustic guitar, no Jam track, how you can play soft, loud, how you can pick back here closer to the bridge and get different tones."
"It's just a really cool little turnaround thing."
"You get a fatter sound, and then the second reason is you get more sustain, so you can do these epic things."