Chords for Jared James Nichols Fingerstyle Rock Guitar Tips

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_ _ _ [G] _ _ How are you actually attacking [E] the strings for that?
This is the thing.
Like, when you play with a guitar pick, right, usually you have like the alternate picking,
like down up, down up.
I think about that like my thumb is going to be my down, the index is the up, so you literally_
So you have this, and when you have that kind of technique, you can [C#] really get that_
_ _ [E] _ But the thing is, you think about these two, down up, down up, and then if you want to
get crazy, you can add a third in, which you really can't do with a pick, to get more
like the [G] rolly stuff that_
Right, so [E] that's thumb, index, middle right there.
Yeah, thumb, index, [B] middle, and you can get all sorts of crazy, man, because with the
fingers, what you can't do with a pick, you can really pop and slap the strings.
And one of my biggest influences in doing it was Albert King, you know, he had that
thing where he could pull up on the strings.
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_ [B] So when you use your fingers, you get like a, almost like a different kind of tone, not
from actual, you know, a lot of people think to themselves, you know, it's all about your
left hand when you're playing guitar, but you know, honestly, with the right, you [G] can_ _ _
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[F] _ _ [E] So all that's done with just [Bm] these two fingers, you know.
Yeah, you're right. _
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_ _ [G] _ _ [B] Show us that little [E] feather strum you were doing there a second.
So all you gotta do, you use the, like the pad of your [B] index finger, and you can do a
bunch of cool stuff.
So what I'll do is like, like I kind of stole it from like, Stevie Ray Vaughan, like I took
that kind of essence of like what he would do on a song Dirty Pool, and like let's say
we're in G, and I'll take it and I'll just_
_ _ _ _ And all I'm doing is literally just padding the G, B, and E.
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But once you really get into it, it's all about like how much you put in right now.
So your index finger is completely straight, and you're just using the flat underside of it.
Totally straight, and you just_
But you know, when you really into [C] it_ _ _ _ _ _
[G#m] And if [B] you want, you could do like the Hendrix thing, like the Red House thing that_
I'll do this all the time, and I'll just run it up, you know.
So say we're in B, and I'm going_ _ _
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_ _ _ [Bm] Or if you want to be nice with it, and you're playing like a slower_
Yeah, you can _ [B] _ go_ _ _
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You know?
And like, no one ever taught, you know, [B] like that's the cool part about like, when I started
like playing with my fingers, like I wasn't really looking to anyone like, okay, how do
I do this?
What do I do?
It was more like I was like, well, I know like you can like run [Bm] up_
Like on a minor thing, [B] so I thought, well, it'd be kind of cool if you're able to just_ _ _ _
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[Bm] _ And if you want to be crazy, you could do like [C#] the_ _ _
I think you showed me how to do that.
_ _ But it's [B] a really simple thing, it's just literally just use your index.
Even if you have a pick, you can just store it down there and just kind [Bm] of start_
You know, there's all these preconceived notions about guitars, and the way you play blues,
the way you play rock, how you're supposed to do things.
And the biggest thing for me with guitar is like, I want it to be like, you know, like
[G] you're on a roller coaster and you don't know what's happening next.
And don't get me wrong, I make mistakes all the time, but it's like how you rebound off
those mistakes and how you recover.
Because like when I'm playing a solo or when I'm playing guitar in general, I want it to
be as exciting [B] as possible.
So I don't really know what I'm going to do until I do it.
I [E] know what you're saying, man.
There's nothing more exciting than watching a downhill skier almost wipe out and then
save him or herself and get back on.
And what's cool about that kind of technique too is like when you're playing, you come
up with some crazy stuff you never would have thought of, you know, and that's kind of how
I base my whole thing is like, you know, especially soloing is like you can tell when someone's
[B] really worked out their licks and worked out their parts.
And of course, everyone has little worked out patterns.
But for me, it was just all about, you know, just the excitement and the energy of it,