[ozboomer]

The attached image shows two notes, E and A. If I play the E... then the A... I'm told the way you play them is to play the E (on the D string) 'normally' and then 'roll' my fingertip across and apply pressure with a slightly different portion of my fingertip on the G string to play the A.

This is a new technique to me and I was wondering how this is notated on a music staff. I don't even know if I'm calling the technique the right name!

I'd appreciate some pointers to a web site, book, etc that explains the technique in more detail and shows how to notate the action (if such a thing exists anyway!).

Thanks!

[Kirk Lorange]

I've never heard of that as any particular technique, ozboomer. I'm not sure there would be a name or way of notating it. There are many ways of playing those two notes on those two strings, like a barre, or two fingers, or the way I just tried it by not so much rolling as flexing my knuckle down ...

But, maybe someone else will know.

[allthumbs]

I think it is a form of sweep picking. SRV used it in spots in his cover of Little Wing to play extreamly fast.

[agent0064life]

How I would attack that is use the E minor fingering and just lift each finger after I hit the note, or if I want the notes to ring leave them there.

[BigG]

I use a single finger to reach another note when I am holding a chord by moving some other part of the finger to the fret. This forms a small barre. But if I have a free finger in position I use that finger. I don't remember ever seeing this as a technique, just something that comes with experience.

The closest technique is using pivot points in chords. When you change a chord you leave a finger in position where it is appropriate or pivot on the finger that needs to remain down. This helps increase speed when changing chords.

[namiguShin]

I'm not sure, but I think ozboomer is talking about some kind of a half barre... It's not any special technique... Just using one finger for two strings... As Kirk said... Nothing fancy, just flex the knuckle...

And to notate it, just add to the score that you're playing those notes with the same finger...

Sorry if I didn't get it right...

All best

[Stratrat]

Originally Posted by namiguShin

I'm not sure, but I think ozboomer is talking about some kind of a half barre... It's not any special technique... Just using one finger for two strings... As Kirk said... Nothing fancy, just flex the knuckle...

That's exactly how I learned to play same-fret notes on adjacent strings (if you don't want to leave the first one ringing out).

As for noting it on a music staff - I don't have the slightest idea. I don't imagine it would be specifically noted - it would be up to the guitarist to figure it out / play it whichever way they wish.