Trick of the Week - January 11, 1999

Description

This is a chord trick in A minor. It is especially useful as a pinky finger exercise. The idea is to leave the barre chord in place (leave the index finger laying across the 5th fret) while playing the melody with the pinky and the ring finger. Go ahead and move when you slide up to the 9th fret barre on the E chord. I used my index finger for that slide so that I could use my middle finger to get a good vibrato on the last note.

By the way, I had some trouble recording this. There was a low frequency thumping noise and a lot of tape hiss on the recording. I decided to use a band
pass filter to get rid of both. A band pass filter is like turning the sound off
above a certain frequency and below a certain frequency. Only the band of frequencies in the middle gets to pass through the filter. It makes a funky
sound that kind of reminds me of Black Hole Sun by Soundgarden.