Jam Track 1: G C D w/ Root Notes, Picking & G Maj Pent Lead

Now let's have a look at a jam track which you can play along to with visual tab and visual cords on screen so that you know where you are at each section of this. And this is your practical assessment of the skills that we've looked at so far in these lessons. You guys that have seen the beginner acoustic course, you're used to this by now, but in case you're not, that's what's gonna happen. And this is based around the G, CA 9, and D chords playing the root note, strum. Open, pick, and then hammer on strong. This was looked at in the previous video. We then changed to the CA 9. And the D. Back to sea Repeat for a couple of minutes. Those of you that are still struggling with the hammer on can just default to doing root note, strum, root note, strum throughout for the G. 23. 4. 2 3. And if picking a single string is still really, really difficult, the other default we can go to are just the thicker strings and then strum. Which we always have to fall back on. But that is where that thumb on top becomes a crucial technique. But this is also fine at this early intermediate level. As the first venture into this, that is absolutely fine. We can also do that same thing with finger style, so without a pick, thumb, strum with the first finger. And even, which is more difficult, and we've not done too much finger style yet, but. This is the finger style. Or just 3. To the sea route And just doing a down strum with that first finger. There is also a suggested lead line which you will see is tabbed out in the play along visual jam track. However, that too might not be for everyone right now. But if you did work through beginner acoustic, and you have that single note lead line experience, particularly of the slide that we looked at. Quite heavily. And this G major pentatonic scale. That higher octave of which goes very well with GC at 9 and D in a wish you were here type style, then it is tabbed out for you if you wish to learn it. It does start to have this combination of hammer-ons and flick offs, which we will be looking at more later in this course. So if you're not ready for that yet, it's totally fine. We're gonna be filling that in as we go, and you can refer back to this jam track, it will be there on the lesson pages, on those appropriate pages. As and when we cover the all of the skills that you would need to do that. But for those of you that have the experience, it's there if you want to learn it. Here's the visual jam track. Play along to the chords first of all. Try and get that solid, try and get that along to the jam track is the priority, just playing in time. I've listed out those different options there for you. And then if all that's gone amazingly well, feel free to learn the single note lead line if that's something you want to make a priority. Throughout this course, not only in this video, if that's part of your thing. Then it's there for you, if it's not yet, don't worry, you can still move on from this level and this video, once you can demonstrate that you can do that along to the visual jam track, and indeed, if you wish, the audio track only, which while it is more difficult, it is what you'll be expected to do if you just want to jam along to the original recording in songs. So don't neglect just the audio track alone, as well as the visual jam track. Here we go, best of luck. There's our first visual jam track, hopefully that went well for you. However, if anything isn't falling together straight away, we've got to manage those expectations. We've always got those easiest steps to peg it back to, maybe just the root note and everything, or maybe just the thicker strings and everything, and we can build in that detail as we practise more, as we get more experience. Experience of what's required at this intermediate level. Same goes with that single note lead line. If you're not ready for that yet, it's not imperative that you have it down before you move on from this level, and indeed this jam track, we can revisit it later when we start to acquire more of these skills that you might not have come across yet. All the best we've learned in this one, and I'll see you in the next video.