In this article, we will analyze what a guitar fight is, how to play it correctly, what types of fights are, and much, much more.

I'll go into more detail about:

Fight six

Fight six - the most popular fight On guitar. It consists of six movements and it sounds something like this:

Specifically, this recording is part of a song from the song "Pass", which is just being played by this fight.

Fight four: scheme how to play

The fight four is also referred to as the Tsoevsky fight, because it is used in some of his songs.

how does it sound

In the recording, I play the Kino song "Pack of Cigarettes" in a four-man fight.

The battle plan looks like this:

Down - Up - Down with plug - Up

1. swipe down with your thumb
2. thumb or index finger up;
3. index finger down (nail);
4. thumb or index finger up.

Tsoevsky fight: schemes, types of fight

The Tsoevsky fight is actually not at all one, there are at least 3 of them, one of them is the four-fight fight that you see above. But there are other types, and they sound like this:

first fight of six moves

There are 6 basic movements and there should be a lot of speed.

B - thumb, Y - index

At the very beginning, we play from the end: down B - down B - up B - down Y

Then we play all the time: down B - up B - down B >>>>> down B - up B - down Y

Tsoi's other fight consists of 7 movements:

down B - up B - plug - up B - down B - up B - plug

Thieves fight: scheme how to play

To be honest, I learned about the thug fight on the guitar quite recently, when I started preparing this article :) The essence of this fight is that bass strings change when playing. That is, first we pull one string, then we draw along all the strings, and then we pull the other string - and again we draw along all the strings.

sounds like this

Pull the B string > down with your index finger > pull the other string (not the bass) > down with your index finger.

thug fight scheme

Bass string - Mute - Bass string - Mute

You can pull the bass string both times so as not to get confused.

Fight eight: scheme how to play

Fight eight consists of eight movements and sounds something like this:

Specifically, this piece is cut from Bast's song "Samsara", in this song the eight fight is used.

Figure eight fight scheme

Down - Down with plug - Up - Up - 3 times in a row Down with plug - Up

3 Fights EVERY Video Guitarist Should Know

What is a guitar fight

I promised I wouldn't use obscure words, so...

What is a fight? Combat is a cycle of repetitive movements right hand near the resonator hole (read: guitar structure). In short, roughly speaking, this is what you do with your right hand on the strings, and more precisely, these are actions when you hit several strings at once.

Fighting should not be confused with guitar picking. Busting is also a cycle of repetitive movements with the right hand, but here we mean fingers. That is, repetitive finger movements. Each string has its own finger. And in combat we use the whole palm, and even squeeze the palm into a fist and other movements.

How to play guitar fight

How to play guitar fight? The question is controversial and does not have a clear answer. There are many types of guitar fights - and they are all played differently. There are no such single movements for all fights, each of them is unique.

There is only a small list of string movements that usually make up a fight:

• dragging the thumb down the strings;
• dragging the thumb up the strings;
• plug;
• open strike on the strings (similar to a plug, only without muffling).

Guitar fight six is ​​almost the simplest and most popular type of fight, especially in Russian rock songs. It can be used to play most of the songs. In general, fighting is the most popular way to accompany singing. It is not much more complicated than a 4, but it sounds more driving and is played faster due to pauses. Fight six is ​​a great option for both beginners and advanced guitarists.

The game of this fight is very simple, here is the scheme: down - down-up - up-down-up. Long dashes between movements mean pauses. To better understand how to play this smoothly, play the following sequence: down-up-down-up-down-up-down-up. Practice it with any chords until it works well. And now throw out the second and fifth element from the scheme. That is, you play down, and where it should sound up, just carry your hand without touching the strings, and then continue to play up and down, and again carry your hand empty.

There is another easy way to learn how to play this guitar fight. You can break the whole sequence into two parts and work them out separately, and then connect them. It looks like this:

1. down-up-down-up.
2. down-up-down-up.

Selected elements are played with sound, and not selected, respectively, without sound. Practice the guitar fight bit by bit and then try to put it together. To make it more interesting to practice, try playing different chords. For example, sequences: C, Am, F, G or Em, C, G, D. Many songs are built on them so that playing them will help you not only work out the technique, but also learn the accompaniment of a song in absentia.

It is better to combine chords when you play the scheme confidently on one chord. Many beginners have difficulty changing chords: for example, it is difficult to maintain a rhythm or it is not clear at what point to rearrange a chord. To clarify this point right away, the chord is rearranged immediately after final touch up and on a new chord we immediately play down fights without a pause.

Below we will attach video tutorials that show in great detail and clearly how to play the six. Look at them carefully, they will help you clarify incomprehensible points.

What is a fight six in terms of musical theory

As you know, any song has a time signature, which, roughly speaking, sets a set of notes of different durations in each measure. So, the guitar fight six corresponds to the sizes 4/4 or 2/4. What is meant. Let's take 4/4 as an example. This time signature means that there are 4 beats per measure, which can be read as ras-and-two-and-three-and-four-and.

If you superimpose the schemes of battle and counting on each other, then you see that the elements are completely the same. By the way, learning to play a fight to the score is good way learn how to play correctly and evenly. Try to count for every movement (including idle strokes).

At first it will seem that this is impossible, but after a few attempts you will succeed. This useful skill will greatly help you learn how to perform more complex combinations in the future.

Complicated combat option

If you already play a simple variant of combat well, you can move on to studying its more complex and interesting variant - with jamming. The game scheme remains the same, we only add jamming on the second and fifth hits. What does it mean to add muting? This means that instead of extracting sound, we strike the strings with our fingers, and then immediately cover them with the edge of the palm so that they stop sounding. If you do this with a little force, you can even get a click from the beating of the strings on the floor of the frets. This sound makes the sound more interesting. The video tutorials attached below detail how to mute the strings correctly.

What songs are played

Of course, in order to learn how to play a six at 100%, you need to do it with some song. Here is a small list of versatile and simple compositions that you can learn to play with a six:

1. Last call.
2. Orbit without sugar.
3. Vladimir Central.
4. Three white horses.
5. When your girlfriend is alone.

In fact, the list is almost endless, if you sing well, then take any song you like, with a 90% probability a six fight will suit it. Video tutorials on YouTube will help you learn how to sing correctly to the accompaniment.

What other types of fights are there

The types of guitar fighting are in order, from simple to complex:

1. Four or simple (down-up-down-up).
2. Six or pop (army) (you already know the scheme).
3. Eight (down - down - up-down-down-up-down-up).
4. Spanish.

As you can see, fights are named based on the number of blows used in them (except for the last one). Spanish guitar fighting is a separate issue. In general, this is a collective definition, which includes many different ways accompaniment using techniques typical of Spanish music. Tutorials on YouTube tell in detail and show how to perform such things.

That's all, we wish you good luck on the difficult path of learning to play the guitar. We hope that this article has helped you a little on the way to your goal. We remind you that we also have a VKontakte group, where we put various lessons, sheet music, tablature, videos and other useful materials for guitarists. Join!

And a small gift - a lesson in Spanish combat!

Since the first post this week was about , let's talk about funk guitar again. Why was funk the theme?

Because this style of music is full of rhythmic delights, namely, for a novice musician, it is important to understand how important rhythmic playing is, experienced guitarists, of course, understand everything perfectly, and even if they didn’t even play various rhythmic figures on purpose, they simply understood them in the process of performing covers . Here I want to remind you again about the benefits. Through new music you can get acquainted with rhythmic patterns unknown to you.

A simple example, before I went to study with a teacher, I didn’t really think about “smooth” playing, and even more so about the groove. And then, at the very first lesson, I get the task to watch a concert, for example, by Michael Jackson and hear how much the audience thinks in tact, and then watch the concert of the ever-living “prima donna” Pugacheva and hear how much the audience thinks Pugacheva.

Simple task, right?

The result was quite interesting. It turns out that the audience that comes to Jackson concerts and not only counts on the weak beats of the bar, that is, on 2 and 4, while Pugacheva’s people count on 1 and 3. The root here was not dug very deep, but at that time I did not understand what is the difference.

Let's just try to turn on the metronome, let's say at a tempo of 65. If we set it to play only half notes, then each 2 and 4 quarter will not sound, we will hear only 1 and 3. As a result, our entire rhythm will hold on to these notes. If we start counting 1,2,3,4 to ourselves, then we will get a rhythmic outline and it will be easier for us to navigate the rhythm of the song. But for this you have to strain your brain, that is, start counting.

I have already touched on this topic:

This means that when playing in any size, you must be guided by which beat sounds now. Just counting to yourself is not suitable for this, since, for example, in 4/4 time you will have to name words of different duration. One two three four. Che-you-re, contains three syllables, and it turns out that calling this share, we hold it a little longer, which means that the pace goes away without us.
Here's a tip for you, try saying the shares in English, if it doesn't help, try imagining pictures with numbers written on them. You can imagine a boxing match and pretty girls carrying round number. Well, in order to somehow mark the change of shares to yourself, say some sound, for example, “u”.

Turn on the metronome, and snap your fingers along with it. Leave the metronome on for a couple of measures, and mute it for the next, turn on the metronome while listening to the recording and listen to the result. I don't think he will make you happy. The problem here is that we cling to the metronome with an internal sense of rhythm. This is a kind of crutch that helps us walk, removing it, we continue to walk, but we stumble. In order not to stumble, we make our steps smaller, which means we step more often. The same method should be transferred to the game. That is, we need to count more often, create the canvas that we will cling to. We already imagine pictures with numbers in our heads, and pronounce “u”, now we will pronounce “ta” for our small steps. Steps can be either eighth notes or sixteenth notes, I suggest using sixteenth notes. So we got

"y" "ta" "ta" "ta" "y" "ta" "ta" "ta" "y" "ta" "ta" "ta" "y" "ta" "ta" "ta".

At first glance, it sounds ridiculous, but without a permanent account, we will not succeed.

It will also be interesting to watch Victor Wooten's video on this topic, take a closer look at how the number of notes played by the metronome changes, but the groove does not change!

So, in order to count evenly, you need to make some efforts, the same with clapping at concerts, people who are indifferent to music do not even try to count on some notes other than 1 and 3, everything is simple and clear, the working barrel, barrel-worker.

As in the joke about the bass player: "Sol-Do, Sol-Do ...". But if you feel the groove of the song, if the music “catches” you, then it won’t be difficult to stay in rhythm, you won’t notice how you start counting all the parts of the song to yourself. This is what happens at the concerts of eminent stars. The public just loves their music.

But back to the guitar.

So, in order to like music, you need to convey to the public not only the harmony of the song, but also the rhythm. So that the song does not sound like a pioneer craft, you will have to work on own feeling rhythm. There are no easy ways, only lessons. But you don't have to do anything either.

Imagine a drum part in any midi editor.

The hi-hat part is not represented by a specific note, but by a simple cross. Let's copy this writing method for rhythmic guitar drawings. Just write down the whole rhythm with such crosses:

One note equals one "x"

This is one measure of 4/4 written in 16th notes, so we denote that each "cross" is equal in duration to one 16th note. To write down which of the notes sounds at what moment, it is enough just to put some symbol over the desired “cross”, for example, “>”.

x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x

In this drawing, you need to play the 1st and 4th sixteenth notes in the first beat, and the 3rd sixteenth in the second beat, the 2nd sixteenth in the third beat and the first sixteenth in the fourth beat.

You can perform the drawing both on one string, and whole chords are used, in funk they usually use various variations on chords 7 and 9, let's try.

As I already wrote in, the easiest way to play funk is to use the Jimmy Nolen "Chicken scratch" method. It's just a shuffling along the unclamped strings, which are muted with the left hand. To create a canvas for counting convenience, let's play all unselected notes with "Chicken scratch", and play the E9 chord on the selection.

It turns out a typical funk figure.

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Annotation: If you have not yet learned how to play in combat, this article will help you! After reading this article, you will learn how to read and play guitar chimes. Recommended for beginner guitarists and for those who don't know how to read a fight.

Guitar fighting is the easiest and most common way to play the guitar. Combat is used in huge numbers, while there is a great variety.

Guitar fight - legend

The battle is usually denoted by three rows of symbols:

• First row and character: I- is a symbol for actions index finger right hand. The ^ sign means to strike up, v - naturally down, and the X sign means that we must strike the strings down and mute the sound of the strings with the edge of the palm.
• Second row and symbol: R- designation of actions for the thumb of the right hand. If you see a ^ sign next to the letter P, then you need to pluck one bass string (bass strings - 6.5 and sometimes 4). That is, you hit a string and stop at the next (thinner) string. Symbol | indicates that you need to do something like slide your thumb down the strings, hitting some of the bass strings.
• Third row and symbol: L– Produces a description of the game with the left hand. Symbol designations: v - at the moment of impact with the right hand, the strings must be strongly clamped. x - strings are released (i.e. fingers just rest on the strings), when you hit the strings, you get a muffled sound. ^ - press the strings well, make a hit and then slowly release ( note: this mark applies only to the strings that you strike (play) with the index finger of your right hand).

In each row, there is a - symbol, which is responsible for the duration of the strike.

Combat notation examples:
I-^--v---v-x-v-^-v---
P-^------------^-----
L-v--v---v-x-^-v-^---

Have you learned? If yes, great! If not, then read again, then we will try to play in combat!

Learning to play the guitar

And so, we take the guitar (In the last lesson, we talked about that). We hold any, and try the fight that we described above.

The first meaning of the letters I - ^, P - ^, L - v. Therefore, we need to firmly press the strings, pull the bass and hit up. Further, the value of I becomes v, P - empty, L - v. That is, We carefully clamp the strings and strike down with the index finger. Further I - x, P - empty, L - x. Therefore, we need to hit the strings (on which the fingers just rest) and the plug with the palm of the hand.

This is how the battle is read and played. There is nothing complicated about this, the main thing is to train your fingers!

It's hard to enjoy playing the guitar when it's all about the basics, scales, and exercises. With learning proper guitar strumming, you'll be playing songs in no time, adding a little joy to your practice. By learning some basic patterns and getting to know the guitar, you will be able to play any song you want. See Step 1 for more instructions.

Steps

Part 1

Acquaintance with the guitar

Hold your guitar correctly. Keep your guitar balanced on your hip, close to your body. To learn how to strike the guitar properly, you must keep the elbow of your striker hand towards the string at the base of the guitar so that you can use your wrist to strike. Let the guitar neck rest on the crease of your plucking hand in the shape of a "V" created by your thumb and forefinger.

• If you have to use your hands to hold the guitar, it's very difficult to strike properly. Let the weight of the guitar rest on your knees, secure it with your elbow, and make sure you can move your striking hand without moving the guitar.

Hold the mediator correctly. With the palm facing towards the body, bend all fingers towards the palm. Place the pick on the first knuckle of your index finger so that it points directly to your chest. Grab the pick securely with your thumb, leaving only a few inches protruding from your fingers. Play around a bit to get a good and comfortable pick grip.

• In addition, you can play the fight without a pick using your thumb. Johnny Cash has never used a pick. This choice depends on whether you can get a sufficiently clear sound with your fingers. Practice using a pick and discard it if you find it too troublesome and find the sound better with your fingers on the strings.
• Not using a pick can be somewhat painful for your percussive fingers. Although growing corns is always a good thing.

Understand the height of the strings (on English language this is called guitar action). The distance of the strings from the fretboard determines the force required to securely press the string to the nut. Practice playing chords correctly and getting clean sound on all strings at once.

• The fight will be rattling if you're hitting dead strings that you haven't fully pressed down. It can be quite difficult to learn how to fight if you don't get the chords right. If your fight sounds dry or raspy, stop and play the right chord.

Part 2

Right fight

Strike the strings between the sound hole and the saddle. Practice hitting the strings different places to get an idea of ​​the sound being created. Striking directly above the sound hole will create a low and dull sound, while combat is closer to saddle will give you a clearer and tighter sound.

Practice hitting all the strings the same way. Try for a while fighting on a G major chord in simple first position, striking down. Play quarter notes, one hit for each quarter note, trying your best to hit all the strings. Stay in tempo by counting four beats per bar.

• Starting on the bottom E string, strike all the strings, trying to make them sound at the same volume. It can be difficult at first to make it sound like a "chord" so that all the strings sound more or less the same. For beginners, the first and sixth strings usually sound louder.

Try kick up. When you feel comfortable doing this in rhythm, try hitting the guitar from thin to thick strings. This is called moving up. This can be a bit tricky, but you need to get all the strings to sound the same, making the chord "sound" like one big sound, rather than playing the strings individually and slowly.

Use your wrist. A good fight is in the wrist. You will be able to easily identify a beginner by waving your arm from the elbow. Learn to keep your elbow close to the instrument by playing with your wrist.

• Many novice guitarists find it difficult to hold the pick while learning to strike. Common problems are holding the pick too close to the base and hanging the pick. Make sure you hold it properly, allowing it to only protrude slightly from your fingers.

Part 3

Learning Basic Rhythm Patterns

Learn the alternating rhythm up and down. The most basic rhythmic pattern of combat is to alternate up and down beats: (v^v^v^v^) Down up, down up, down up, down up. Keep up the pace, but try to play up and down in each bar, splitting quarter notes into eighths.

• Instead of one stroke per quarter, you will play two strokes per quarter. These are eighth notes. The tempo needs to be steady, so stomp your foot at the same speed, but hit the strings twice every quarter.

Change chords. Once you're comfortable with your down-up rhythm on one chord, change it up. Switch from G major to C major every bar, then every two quarters, practicing changing chords over time.

• Take your time as you study this and try to assimilate it. It may be a slow move, but it will be easier for you to play if you take the time to do it now. Moving on to the next step before you feel comfortable with changing chords will leave you frustrated and dissatisfied with your sound. Practice changing the chords and it will be easy for you to play the songs.

Don't hit the fourth quarter down on the bar. There are almost no songs with up and down rhythm patterns, and it will be boring to play the same pattern over and over again. Skip one beat down (x don't play) and see how the rhythm changes: (v^v^v^x^).

• Before learning more complex fighting rhythms, you should learn how to skip up or down punches at certain times while maintaining the same up and down pattern in your hand. In other words, you will continue to move your wrist, but move the pick away from the strings.

Practice playing pop rock. A familiar fight that you will hear in a lot of live performances and practical exercises, is the following: (v x v ^ x ^ v ^)

• Start actively listening to your favorite songs that show acoustic guitar to get some idea of ​​the rhythm patterns used. Now that you know the basics, you can start learning how to vary your combat patterns by dropping specific hits to achieve different effects in a song.

Practice muting the strings with your striking hand. Another way to add some variation to your fighting pattern is to loosen the strings with the palm of your striker's hand, maintaining the rhythm but getting a more percussive effect when you hit the selected strings with your pick.

• Neil Young has a distinctive, low-pitched heavy fighting that he uses along with string muting, and acoustic pop star Jack Johnson also has a distinctive muted fighting style that's easy to learn and sounds more outlandish than it actually is.

Put the chord and tempo first. The beginner guitarist softens the "battle" by focusing too much on template and too little on tempo, chord clarity, and song reproduction. As you play, try to focus on the chords and then on the rhythm. You'll sound like a pro in no time.