Lesson 42 of 50GuitarBeginner

Represent

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Play "Represent," a hip-hop-inspired piece with E minor, C, and G chords, single-note riffs, and syncopated rhythms. Focus on palm muting for clean rests, alternate picking, and maintaining groove accuracy.
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    • 02. Rock City

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    • 03. Rock City (performance)

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    • 04. Party People

      7:20

    • 05. Party People (performance)

      0:46

    • 06. Road to Nashville

      6:08

    • 07. Road to Nashville (performance)

      0:47

    • 08. Lead Boots

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    • 10. Parka Life

      5:01

    • 11. Parka Life (performance)

      0:43

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      5:23

    • 13. Represent (performance)

      0:46

Lesson transcript

on the theme again that is very, very similar to the start in line one. The only difference is bar four, where we finish on an open E string on beat one, then have a quarter note and a half note rest, giving us three beats of silence.

For this piece, it's a good idea to use our palm for all the rests. What I mean by that is using our palm to kill the note.

  • If we look at line one, bar one, I'm stopping the note with my palm, resting it just after the bridge on the guitar.
    • This stops the note accurately and doesn't let any fret buzz continue.

Sometimes, if we don't push hard enough with our left hand when playing a rest, you'll hear the string still ring out. You can hear that kind of trail at the end where it kind of goes on for a little bit longer.

So with our palm, we can stop it much clearer.

As always, you can go over to the interactive music, slow this down, loop specific bars and sections, and build the speed up gradually.

I'll see you there when you feel ready!

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