Guitar Octave Matches

      This next lesson is a great trick style whatever you would like to call it but is great in your leads, intros, outros wherever you want to put it. This is a fairly simple exercise and many players use it.

      We are going to be using what I call guitar octave matches. What is an guitar octave match well it is when you play one note together with another note and that other note is the octave match of the first one. So for an example and I know it would be pretty hard to play together however just go with it. Let’s say you play an open E then the octave match is the E on the 12 fret. Well I am sure most of you know that there are matches all over the neck and on different string. If you didn’t know now you do. Well here is the cool part. There is a pattern you can use for these guitar octave matches that has a great full almost whining sound. I will start with the top 2 strings. The E and the A to get their octave matches you just go 2 strings down and one fret up. So for example on the low E string if you have your first finger on the 3^rd fret and to get the octave match you put your 3^rd finger on the 4^th fret of the D string. Slide that up and down the neck and they will always match. This will hold true for the A string as well. Same pattern put your first finger 3^rd fret and your 3^rd finger on the 5^th fret.  Now on the next 2 strings there is a slight difference. The second note rather than going up one fret you go up two. So for example if you have your 1^st finger is on the 3^rd of the D strings then your octave match would be on the 6^th fret of the B string. Once more the pattern hold true on the G string and the E. The last part of this is to keep the other strings muted. This is not very hard to do. I hope I was able to show you something you had not known before and I hope you use it well.