SRV Rake Technique

http://www.steviesnacks.com - Another foundational technique of the SRV style, the rake as I call it involves playing as many strings as you can for each not. This lessons shows you how to fatten up the sound of any note you play by muting the other strings as you play all of them, letting only one note ring out.

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Music

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• SRV
• Stevie
• Ray
• Vaughan
• Blues
• Guitar
• lessons
• foundational
• technique

[Mircea779]

Are you using your Hot Rod Deluxe in this vid? It sounds really good. Thank you for all the lessons, they help a lot.

[gr8bluesgtr]

This was before I got the Blues Junior, so this would have been the Hot Rod Deluxe.

[loldecepticonlol]

Thanks for this, would a higher action help with this? I find that when I really dig in some other strings start to ring out no matter how hard I try to keep them muted. My action is more on the low side of the spectrum.

[gr8bluesgtr]

Higher action will help with this because you've got a larger margin of error. With low action you can barely rest on the strings without fretting them. Just make sure that you have the guitar checked out when you raise the action to make sure the truss rod is set correctly.

[kb23la]

my bad

i ment to say that this is really useful

haha thanks

[gr8bluesgtr]

I knew what you meant :)

[KellyIsMusical]

A good example of this technique that is not a blues tune, is the Chili Peppers' song "Can't Stop." Thanks for this by the way. :D

[bhavs26]

i find that angling my pick slightly downwards before raking helps alot!

[ArizonaMMJ]

Perhaps one of the best videos ive seen yet that opened my eyes to something new. Good stuff! Thanks man.

[calvinasqw]

@shirtpantsify um...thats funky stuff

[shirtpantsify]

John Frusciante uses the same technique in the song "Can't Stop"

[dago00]

I`ve got it today!

[MichalHomie]

so whats the name of the song from 5:02 ?

[alexjobbe]

what was the name of the song in this video again?

[thenoodleguy]

isnt a rake the same thing as a sweep? if not then why do people call sweep picking raking?

[capoeirahh]

oooooooh thank you man this was so useful! your lessons are improving my playing by the minute I swear

[peniosasdasd]

If learning to improv on the pent. scale is the broth, learning rakes is the meat.

Blues is not blues without rakes and bends, as far as playing it goes.