Chords for Guthrie Govan 32nd Note Strumming

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_ _ [Ab] OK, let's do some normal playing with the pick, see what happens.
_ _ Probably the thing
I get asked about the most in terms of this style of playing is [Eb] the kind of frantic right
hand stuff.
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_ _ _ _ It's not that difficult if you just tell your wrist to be very, very loose
and very, very relaxed.
So it's like what happens, I'll tilt round [Ab] in an unorthodox
fashion.
There's my baby guitar.
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_ _ _ [N] When you're alternate picking, _ _ _ _ [Db] I _ _ think it's important
to [Ebm] see how long you can do that before you get fatigue kicking in.
If you're doing it
right, you should feel nice and relaxed, it should be a small movement, a gentle wobble
of the wrist.
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_ [N] _ So if you want to apply that to the funkier strumming stuff, basically
your wrist comes out like that and now you can do the same kind of movement but it describes
a wider arc now.
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_ So [Db] you [G] _ _ _ _
_ _ _ [N] _ _ might think in terms of basic ingredients that will happen a lot.
If you're playing 16th notes, you might want to double it up and do 32nd notes, because
that's what all this stuff [Gm] is.
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Some people think it's triplets, it's not, it's one more
isn't it.
[Dm] It's 32nd notes, so simple exercise would just be to go [Gm] play _ _ 16th notes like that
[C] and occasionally [Dm] double it up [Eb] _
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_ like that.
_ _ [N] Sometimes you'll find you can do it once but you can't
do it a number of times in a row, so maybe look at that.
Sometimes that's more beneficial
than trying to speed it up further.
Find one tempo and increase the amount of repetitions
you [F] can do before you lose concentration.
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It's good for checking that you remain relaxed
[G] as well. _ _
_ _ [N] The only other thing you need to know about that is that you're not trying
to hit all the strings, you don't need to, maybe two strings, three strings tops is enough
to create the effect you're going for. _ _ _ _ _ _ _
[Em] _ _ And then just think like a snare drum, think military
_ snare [Gm] rudiments and stuff like that.
_ _ _ _ [A] _ [G] _ [C] Generally it [Ab] sounds best when this hand is relaxed and
you're not hearing an actual chord, you're hearing [G] X's.
If the chord is squeezed the
whole time, _ [Eb] it's messy.
[N] It's better to do the busy stuff with _ dampened strings and then
squeeze for the big [Gm] downstroke at the end. _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ [Fm] So in context you might have a groove [E] like
1, 2, 3, 4. _ _
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Let's try that again.
So in context you might have a [Gm] groove like _ _ _ _ _ _ _
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