Justin King has incredible percussive techniques he uses in his acoustic music. He came by the Guitar World studio to give a lesson on how to get started with slapping, tapping, popping, flamenco strumming, and more! Check it out!
Very cool. Now I will be obsessed with perfecting this style for the next few months. As a guitar teacher it is great to find new stuff that inspires you! Thanks for this vid!
For all the people saying he’s not a good teacher, I’d beg to differ. This was a brilliant, concise example of certain techniques that I didn’t even know existed but this was exactly what I was looking for!… the standard way of choosing cords and strumming simply up and down kind of bored/bores me and I have more fun basically beat boxing and slapping my guitar. I didn’t know what I was doing but it feels much more engaging, fun and brilliant way to play and make cool sounds, beats and mixtures of noises. You’re almost like you’re own Band with just a simple acoustic!!! ❤️❤️❤️
If you can't figure out what he did from watching this video and listening, this lesson is too advanced for you and you should go back to basics first.
There are plug inns for your browser that can make loops in youtube and slow everything down. This made it possible for me to find out what he's actually doing. Hope this helps you! It did for me. Succes, it's a great lick / technique!
Whoa.. NEver knew Mr. Justin King gave lesson, I've been listening to his music for almost 2 decade and he tried to star out with lessons and kinda put it on the back burner, glad he's back in the game
Haha. Justin King, haven't heard that name I awhile. Knock on wood in the guitar shop was one of my favorite videos ever. Nice to see Your still rocking.
This is really helpful if you’re already a musical genius and can put together your own practice chords to do this with. But I’m not a musical genius. I’m just a guy with a crazy amount of built dexterity. I can do everything he tells me to do, but I can’t make it sound good because I’m not musically inclined. I need practice examples, a little walkthrough on some things I can do with it, then I can mess with that and make it my own. But I definitely can’t think like a musician quite yet, after all, I’ve only been playing for a year and a half. And flamenco is what drew me to guitar. So that last part was useless to me, then the rest of the video was stuff I CAN physically do and comprehend, but since I don’t have the musical inclination to just make things up it honestly wasn’t much help.
I have so much to learn. jesus christ! this dude is amazing. my brother fucks my head up with how good he is. then you see this dude n it's impossible to be this good. I'll keep trying to play because I love music. but you have to be a special person to be this good
+Luke Stakelbeck Not really, you just have to actually practice and not just fool around with your guitar. If you put your time into it, you can definitely do it, it's not like slapping and popping are rocket science.
That triplet rasgueado actually took me a couple weeks to do correctly and I had to do a different motion. Up with thumb, open fingers, down with thumb. It takes the wrist a little while to develop the muscle memory.
Call me a contrarian to many of the comments here, but as a rank beginner I actually got a lot out of this video. I watched it all the way through four times then slowed it to half speed and watched and watched and watched. No, Justin didn't spoon feed us here but I could easily see the end goal of what a tremendous amount of wood shedding can yield. I really don't like to be held by the hand. But wait there's more -- by not breaking it all down to its minutest details, there is room for us students to perhaps create something new. For me, this is a successful video. Thanks!
I'd love to get into gear. Can you get the sound raw from the wood or is it always a thing to play on the amp? There must be a lot of compression to keep all the sounds on the same level, right? Do you use an effect pedal or is there some included in the amp? What's the best pickup to play on?
cool Michael hedges type of style , with the open tuning , could this same slap and pop style be implemented with a slide bar, or even on a banjo , I would like to see more involved tutorials ,thanks
hi, i have a question, whats the diffence with percussive and slamming technique? i saw some of the songs play with this techniques like the pop songs and more than words by extreme.
It's funny how there is like an argument or a conflict between the hands, as to which one of them the rythm belongs to. If you allow an accent to be played out with your left hand, or even left finger you can feel a grumpiness from your right hand: ".... Ok.... I'll let you have it.... But just this once!"
Yay! I'm not having any trouble anymore. Some of these examples im most likely not going to use, but I will recommend your videos to intermediate guitarists. Thanks bud. Appreciate it.