Acoustin

TUTORIAL 4: DOWNSTROKE KICK PART 2

This technique can be like relearning guitar all together, very confusing.

Play it as slowly as you need! I always advice using a metronome.

TUTORIAL 3: DOWNSTROKE KICK

With this one you can genuinely hurt yourself!

Pain in a bone or in a joint is not like pain on the surface of your skin, you have to take it much more seriously. If you’re getting such pains then take a break until the pain is totally gone and adjust your striking and posture to avoid the injury, rinse and repeat if necessary.

It is tempting to hit the board only with the right side of your hand, you mustn’t do that or you may hurt your wrist.

TUTORIAL 2: ADVANCED MUTING

This is very difficult, it truly is an art. The fact that you can only use your thumb on the right hand puts an additional workload on the left hand, that is the reality of this technique.

If your are getting blisters on your right and from all this thumbstrumming, do take it slow!

The skin will heal and eventually get used to it, promise.

TUTORIAL 1: THUMBSTRUMMING

Step 1:

Learn to play the guitar using only your thumb on the right hand, because guitar wasn’t hard enough already.