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A rake is a technique that can be use to add a little percussive
spice to notes. This is done by adding one or more "click"
sounds right before sounding a note.
Here is how a rake is written in tablature. The
x is just where the strings is muted.
E:------------------
B:--------5---------
G:-------x----------
D:------x-----------
A:------------------
E:------------------
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In the above example, you are going to put your first finger
on the 2nd string, 5th fret. Lightly touch the 3rd and 4th strings
with your 2nd, 3rd, or both fingers. The placement of those fingers
is really not important. They are only there to mute those strings.
So when they are picked, you will just hear a "click"
sound.
Now pick down on the 4th string....click, down on the 3rd string....click.
Then lift up the fingers that you were using to mute the 4th and
3rd strings and play the 2nd string 5th fret. Do all of this slowly
at first. Click...click....note. Just let your pick sweep across
those 3 strings. Your pick will come to rest on the next string
like you were strumming a chord slowly. Once you have the feel,
then start to increase the speed.
A rake is a lot of times heard as one sound, as one note with
a more percussive feel. This is because you are including the
extra click sounds along with the note you are actually playing.
A rake might also be heard as separate sounds. Sometimes sloppy
sweep picking becomes
a rake unintentionally. Sweep picking and rakes do have some things
in common. But they are two different techniques, and I have sometimes
seen Internet tablature incorrectly label a sweep pick a rake.
A rake can be done on just 2, 3, or 4 strings. Probably not more,
but it is possible. You can either pick down or up, but down is
by far much more common.
The
rake overkill lick
E:--------------------------------------------
B:----8------5--------------------------------
G:---x------x----7p5--------5-----------------
D:--x------x----x------7---x---7------5---7---
A:-------------x------x---x---x------x---x----
E:-------------------x-------x------x---x-----
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