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How to play Newton Faulkner style percussive acoustic
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Total Guitar (Newton Faulkner/Richard Barrett), Fri 18 Sep 2009, 9:20 am UTC
Example 1: percussion tab and notation guide
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Newton uses two percussive strikes in this piece. Notice that he doesn't play the bass boom above the soundhole as he normally would. This means his pick hand doesn't have to move so far.
Example 2: cross-rhythms
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In bar 1 there are six percussive strikes, grouped into triplets. This means that only the first and fourth strikes fall on the beat and that the remaining strikes fall either one third or two thirds through a beat. The fret hand hammer-ons are eighth notes, which are either on the beat or halfway in between beats.
