Today we will consider another way of sound production on the guitar, which is called The battle.
I'll tell you about guitar fighting for beginners what types of combat are.
The battle- this is a technique of playing the guitar, in which the strings are struck with the right hand (from the sixth to the first) or index finger, or all but the big one. Most likely, you have already heard about this way of playing the guitar, well, let's take a closer look.
Just like, there are also many types of fights. Let's try to learn the most basic types of guitar fighting.
So, consider the scheme of a very common, but at the same time easy fight.
V ^ V ^ This scheme stands for:
- V - strike down the strings;
- ^ - hitting the strings up;
Let me explain. This scheme means: down up down up. You strike with the first index finger right hand first down, that is, from the sixth string to the first, then move your finger back up, from the first string to the sixth. Then up and down again. And so you continue. The pause between strikes on the strings should be minimal.
Important do it in a certain constant rhythm, without interrupting the fight and without making pauses. Practice, play this fight on open strings, make sure, again, that the right hand is relaxed, the brush is as free as possible.
More guitar beats
We have discussed with you the simplest type of guitar fighting, but not the only one.
The next type of battle is a little more difficult than the first. The first was intended only for you to practice. And this fight has the following scheme:
V_V^_^V^ Schema decoding:
- V- Striking the strings down
- _ - pause (lasts about as long as one hit on the strings)
- ^ - hitting the strings up
These icons are the same as in the first scheme, except for one:
"_" is the pause icon. It means that in this case you should play the fight like this: down, pause, down up, pause, up down up. A pause is expected for about as long as one strike on the strings lasts - it doesn’t matter if it’s up or down.
Schematic of another fight
V_V^
Fight with muted strings
There is another type of guitar fighting, which is the most difficult, compared to the previous ones. It looks like this:
V_V*^_^V*^ Schema decoding:
- V- Striking the strings down
- * - Means a blow with the muting of the strings
- _ - pause (lasts approximately like one hit on the strings)
- ^ - hitting the strings up
Note: " * " (asterisk) stands next to the strike down icon (V *), it means muting the strings. That is, along with how to strike the strings down, with the edge of the palm of your right hand, as shown in the figure (Fig. 1), you press, muffle strings.
Also, this fight with the muting of the strings is shown in the video, first how to mute the strings, then the fight quickly:
You will find many other types of combat with decoding.
So, now I will give you a transcript of the battle schemes and those icons that we have not analyzed, but which you may encounter.
To learn how to play the guitar with a fight, you need to be not only a guitarist, but also a little bit of a drummer. Combat is nothing more than a collection of individual strokes connected in certain rhythmic patterns. Its character largely depends on the specific style (flamenco, rock, pop, reggae, march, tango) and time signature (2/4, 4/4, 6/8). It is also necessary to distinguish between rhythmic accompaniment parts for one guitar and guitar in an instrumental environment (group, orchestra, Dixieland).
Rhythmic drawings
How to start mastering the game of combat? No matter how strange it may sound, from the fact that the guitar needs to be put aside and familiarize yourself with the basics of rhythm. To do this, you need to analyze the duration and size in exercise 1, and then clap your hands, recorded rhythmic figures. Just don't be afraid of musical notation, if you don't understand it yet, then it's time to start understanding it - it's simple, but to help you - "".
Size 4/4 in measure 4 beats, we count each beat with a kick and say 1 and ... 2 and ... 3 and ... 4 and ... In the first measure there are 4 quarter notes, which means for each beat (foot kick) you need to make one clap. It is necessary to strictly maintain the rhythm.
Having mastered the drawing of the first measure, you can move on to the second. Here, there are two eighth notes per beat. At the expense, it looks like this: on “1” (simultaneously with the kick of the foot) - the first eighth note, on “and” (the leg rises) - the second eighth. In other words, for every kick, two claps.
In the third measure, there is an alternation of a quarter note and two eighth notes. In practice, it looks like this: 1 share - “1 and” (simultaneously with the kick of the foot 1 clap), 2 share (eighths) - on “1” (simultaneously with the kick of the 1st eighth), on “and” (leg the 2nd eighth rises). The third beat is played like the first, the fourth like the second. It turns out one long clap (1 and), then two short ones (“2” - clap, “and” - clap) and again long (3 and) and two short (4 and).
Now you need to repeat the pattern in the 4th measure. This is actually the rhythm of the fight, which will be considered in exercise 4. The first three beats are the same as in the second measure. Eighths - for each kick of the foot 2 claps, the fourth share (4 and) - a quarter note, for a kick of the foot 1 clap.
Learning to play guitar strumming - exercise 1
Now you can play the learned drawings on the guitar. All exercises are considered using one Am chord as an example in order to concentrate on mastering the technique.
By the way, if you still don’t know how to play the Am chord on the guitar, then we have an introductory lesson especially for you - “”, learn soon!
In the notes, in Latin letters, it is indicated which fingers you need to hit the strings (notation scheme - see the drawing with a hand). The arrow indicates the direction of impact - up or down. At the top of each beat is a measure beat.
We play the first bar with a quarter-stroke alternating stroke, hit down with the thumb p (1 and), then hit up with the index finger i (2 and) and similarly 3 and 4 beats. The second measure with the same stroke, only eighth notes on “1” beat down p, on “and” beat up i. For each beat of the measure (foot strike), two strikes are made on the strings. In the third measure, quarter notes alternate with eighth notes - one long blow with the thumb down (1 and) and two short ones with the index finger up (on “2” - a blow and on “and” - a blow).
Learning to play the guitar with a fight - exercise 2
This exercise will help you master the technique of muting the strings, which is very often used when playing by fighting. In the exercise, it is indicated by the symbol X, which stands instead of notes. The chord is not removed from the neck, the fingers of the left hand keep the fingering of the chord, in this case Am, and the right hand mutes the strings.
Now more about the technique: the index finger (i) before hitting the strings is in bent state, and at the moment of impact it bends in the plane of the strings. And immediately after the blow, the palm rests on the strings, while the fingers are straightened. You should get an absolutely deaf short sound, without any extraneous overtones.
In the second and third measures, there is an alternation of strikes: muffling i with the index finger (down) and striking upwards with the same finger. First quarters, then eighths. The third measure is a full fight. For example, they can play ditties, and fast fun songs in the polka rhythm.
Learning to play guitar strumming - exercise 3
And this fight (2 measure of the exercise) is played by V. Tsoi's song “A Star Called the Sun”. Do you remember what this music is? Watch this video:
Well, now let's move on to the exercise itself:
To make it easier to master the fight, you need to take its first part and work it out separately (1 measure of the exercise). On the first beat (leg kick) there are two strikes on the strings on “1” with the thumb down, on “and” with the index finger up. On the second beat (2 and) - jamming (one hit), etc.
And now the battle is complete, we recall the rhythmic pattern from the 4th measure of the first exercise. The first share "1" - p down, "and" - i up; The second share - "2" - muting i down, "and" - i up; The third share - we make two hits, as in the first share; The fourth beat is muting i down “4 and” one beat.
The more practice you have, the better. The strokes must be brought to automatism so that they do not distract during the rearrangement of chords. It is also very useful to listen to how professional guitarists play the accompaniment, analyze the drawings and then apply them in their performing practice.
So, you have worked hard to learn how to play the guitar, now after all these exercises you can play something interesting. For example, the same song by V. Tsoi. Here's a detailed video review just in case:
If you are learning to play the guitar, you may find this information useful - ""
In this article, we will analyze what a guitar fight is, how to play it correctly, what types of fights are, and much, much more.
I'll go into more detail about:
Fight six
Fight six is the most popular fight on the guitar. It consists of six movements and it sounds something like this:
Specifically, this recording is part of a song from the song "Pass", which is just being played by this fight.
Fight four: scheme how to play
The fight four is also referred to as the Tsoevsky fight, because it is used in some of his songs.
how does it sound
In the recording, I play the Kino song "Pack of Cigarettes" in a four-man fight.
The battle plan looks like this:
Down - Up - Down with plug - Up
- swipe down with your thumb
- thumb or index finger up;
- index finger down (nail);
- thumb or index finger up.
Tsoevsky fight: schemes, types of fight
The Tsoevsky fight is actually not at all one, there are at least 3 of them, one of them is the four-fight fight that you see above. But there are other types, and they sound like this:
first fight of six moves
There are 6 basic movements and there should be a lot of speed.
B - thumb, Y - index
At the very beginning, we play from the end: down B - down B - up B - down Y
Then we play all the time: down B - up B - down B >>>>> down B - up B - down Y
Tsoi's other fight consists of 7 movements:
down B - up B - plug - up B - down B - up B - plug
Thieves fight: scheme how to play
To be honest, I learned about the thug fight on the guitar quite recently, when I started preparing this article :) The essence of this fight is that bass strings change when playing. That is, first we pull one string, then we draw along all the strings, and then we pull the other string - and again we draw along all the strings.
sounds like this
Pull the B string > down with your index finger > pull the other string (not the bass) > down with your index finger.
thug fight scheme
Bass string - Mute - Bass string - Mute
You can pull the bass string both times so as not to get confused.
Fight eight: scheme how to play
Fight eight consists of eight movements and sounds something like this:
Specifically, this piece is cut from Bast's song "Samsara", in this song the eight fight is used.
Figure eight fight scheme
Down - Down with plug - Up - Up - 3 times in a row Down with plug - Up
3 Fights EVERY Video Guitarist Should Know
What is a guitar fight
I promised I wouldn't use obscure words, so...
What is a fight? The fight is a cycle of repetitive movements of the right hand near the sound hole (read: the structure of the guitar). In short, roughly speaking, this is what you do with your right hand on the strings, and more precisely, these are actions when you hit several strings at once.
Fighting should not be confused with guitar picking. Busting is also a cycle of repetitive movements with the right hand, but here we mean fingers. That is, repetitive finger movements. Each string has its own finger. And in combat we use the whole palm, and even squeeze the palm into a fist and other movements.
How to play guitar fight
How to play guitar fight? The question is controversial and does not have a clear answer. There are many types of guitar fights - and they are all played differently. There are no such single movements for all fights, each of them is unique.
There is only a small list of string movements that usually make up a fight:
- dragging the thumb down the strings;
- dragging the thumb up the strings;
- plug;
- open strike on the strings (similar to a plug, only without muffling).
Greetings dudes and dudes who read and look at the pages of my site! In this article I want to tell you a little about what guitar fighting is and what exist. All beginner "Zinchuks", at the very initial stage, dream of mastering a couple of types of combat and playing their favorite songs with friends, somewhere in nature or at a fun party. Now I will actually show you these basic types of fighting on the guitar.
So read, watch, learn!
We'll start with a definition. To put it briefly and more clearly, guitar fighting is a playing technique when your right hand simultaneously strikes all the strings (well, or almost all) with sweeping movements, extracting a sound. The name of the expression "guitar fight" itself is unprofessional, this expression was coined among amateur guitarists. Professionals and there all sorts of guitar gurus do not like and do not use the expression "guitar fight", they call it rhythmic patterns. If we look into history, we will see that this technique was originally called “Razgeado”. And it was invented by Spanish guitarists, which is why this name is actually.
Guitar fighting is common among novice amateur guitarists, because beginners "Zinchuk" consider guitar fighting a panacea, well, these guys are mostly not your fault, stereotypes are to blame for everything. Yes, and mastering the fight is not so difficult. Guitar fight in its basic sense is various combinations of strikes on the strings and pauses. This is mainly applicable for .
Guitar fighting is mainly intended for accompaniment to singing or other solo instruments. The principle of playing a guitar fight is quite simple, and is as follows: chords are put and moved with the left hand, and the right hand extracts the sound by hitting the strings in various combinations. The main thing is to learn and understand how strikes are made and in what sequence. Also dudes and dudes, in order to properly master and apply guitar fighting, you must have a sense of rhythm. At the initial stage, in order to feel the rhythm, I recommend everyone to use a metronome. It is not necessary to have a metronome in a physical version, use electronic ones, you can now download hundreds of them on the Internet.
Guitar battles are used to perform both yard (army, bard) songs, and such musical trends as rock, jazz, country and others. The types of guitar fights are quite diverse, and there are also a lot of names of fights, you probably already heard such expressions as “double fight”, “quadruple fight”, “six fight”.
Now let's look at the main ones. To begin with, let's get acquainted with what notation we will show string strikes for each type of guitar fight:
v - this is how a blow down the strings from the sixth to the first is indicated .
^ – and this is a blow up the strings from the first to the sixth .
X - and this sign means muting the strings, with the edge of the palm of the right hand .
It is actually from the combinations of these designations that various versions of guitar fights are built. In general, guys, I want to tell you that guitar fighting or, as the pros say, rhythmic patterns are purely individual things and each guitarist can experiment with combinations and come up with their own combinations.
Watch a video on how your right hand should perform these elements:
But let's take a look at the main types of guitar fighting that you can meet most often:
- The first battle looks like this : v v v ^ v. This is one of the most simple species fight.
- The second type of battle looks like this : v ^ v^ v. As can be seen from the notation, first there is a downward blow, then an upward blow, then again a downward blow, then up, and everything ends with a downward blow. This type combat can be diversified and use the muting of the strings with the palm of your hand. Then we get the next kind of battle.
- The third type of combat . It looks like this: v ^ vx ^ v ^ vx ^. This is a muffled combination of the second type of combat. As you can see the sign vx means that the downward strike occurs with the strings being muted with the palm of your hand.
- The fourth type of combat : v vx ^ ^ vx ^. This is the most common type of fight, this guitar fight is called six. This fight starts with a down punch, then down again but with a palm muting, then up and up again then down with a muffle and ends with an up punch. This type of combat is quite difficult, so you guys will have to work hard and practice to confidently perform it.
- The last kind of fight : v v v ^ ^ v v. Here is another of the common types of combat. It is also quite complex.
Above, I gave you only the most basic and frequently used types of guitar fighting. In order to diversify the main types of combat that were presented above, you guys will need to experiment a bit and try all kinds of combinations of up, down and mute, skip somewhere, add somewhere, and so on. Experiment, and may you be happy and joyful.
And finally, I want to tell you that in order to understand what kind of battle a song is played, you don’t need to run to the forums and forgive me for the expression zao .... ask all questions like: "help me pick up a fight?", "What kind of fight is there?" ?”, “but in tabs the battle is like this, but in reality it’s not like that?”. Just sit down, put on your headphones, listen to the song to the holes and carefully listen to the rhythm and start experimenting with the guitar in your hands. Well, or if there is an opportunity to watch a video recording of some cool dude playing this song, then you guys are lucky, you can see the fight of your favorite song on the video. Therefore, it is also very useful to browse YouTube for the presence of such videos :=)
All dudes and dudes, this article ends. Study carefully and apply. I wish you success!
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In musical notation of guitar parts, you can find symbols that indicate the direction of the strike on the string. Whether to follow these recommendations is up to the musician. Despite the fact that our site is not a tutorial on how to play the guitar, we consider it necessary to dwell a little more on this topic so that the meaning of these signs is clear.
A bit of theory. Let's agree that the guitarist clamps the strings with his left hand, and extracts sounds with his right hand. They say that with the right hand (guitarist, violinist, etc.) the musician plays. It's playing. It is the right hand of the musician playing string instruments that is responsible for the emotionality of the game.
There are quite a few ways to extract sounds in the arsenal of a guitarist. We are talking in this article about those ways of playing when the right hand does not hit several strings, but extracts sounds from quite specific strings. For example, playing by brute force, or solo with fingers or a mediator.
In the case of playing with fingers, usually the thumb pulls the string from above, and the other fingers from below. If you need to play something rather fast, then they play with the index and middle fingers, as if they “run” with their fingers, pulling the strings from below. There are many options, we just noticed that most often the thumb pulls the string from above, the other fingers from below. Of course, there are exceptions.
When playing with a pick, the string is pulled both from above and from below. The blow from above is stronger, the note is more easily accentuated, therefore, strong beats are played with a pick from above. Fast games are played, as a rule, by alternating blows from above and below.
Designation of the direction of strike on the string
The directions of strikes on the strings (up or down) are indicated under the notes as follows:
If groups of notes are repeated, or the rhythmic pattern is very similar, then it is enough to indicate the directions of strikes with a plectrum at the beginning of the pattern, and repetitions can be omitted. Let's look at a good example, in which at the same time we recall some other elements of musical notation. So an example:
V.Monti, "Czardas"
The figure shows a part of the famous work "Czardas" by Vittorio Monti. When listening, you will hear a longer fragment than is depicted in the score. Very beautiful music :)
Signs indicate strikes with a mediator from top to bottom. Please note - on the strong beats (the beginning and middle of the bars), the blows are from top to bottom.
Signs indicate strikes with a mediator from the bottom up. Pay attention - strikes and in most cases alternate. There are 2 hits in a row where a hit on a strong beat is needed. Look at the penultimate bar: two hits in a row so that the first note of the last bar (strong beat) is struck (from top to bottom).
Bars 11 and 12 do not contain signs and . Why? The answer is this: the previous two measures contain the same rhythmic pattern, and it already shows the directions of the beats. In principle, it was enough to indicate the directions of beats in the 9th measure on the first rhythmic pattern (the first 4 notes of the 9th measure). But we stretched it out to 2 measures.
Repetition is the mother of learning!
Using a good example, let's recall other elements of musical notation:
- Size of the work: two quarters.
- The work is played quite quickly, so the author made it easier for us to read the notes: we see the symbols for the fingers of the left hand (numbers next to the notes). You should not blindly follow the advice on the placement of fingers, but you need to listen. At least understand what the author meant.
- There are no designations for the fingers of the right hand. Why? Because we play as a mediator.
- Alteration signs. There are occasional sharps, as well as a flat at the key (on the note "si"). Once flat with the key, then instead of all the notes "si" you should play "si-flat". The action of random accidental signs (we have sharps) apply only to one measure.
- At the beginning of the second line of the stave is the number 7. And at the beginning of the third line - the number 12. This is the bar number from which the line begins. It's easier to navigate that way.
- Pay attention to the reprise - it covers the entire depicted part of the work. So you have to play twice.
