The most important guitar technique?! - How to Finger Roll

In this week’s guitar lesson we are checking out the finger rolling technique and I’ll show you exactly how to do a finger roll on guitar, why you need to learn the technique and provide some practice room finger rolling guitar exercises to help develop it.
When arpeggiating or picking chords out, you will normally do so with the let ring guitar technique, in which the strings will ring out and bleed into one another (as seen in tab notation with the ‘let ring’ playing direction). This occurs when you maintain pressure on the strings pressing into the fretboard.
When playing melodically in a lead line, you normally don’t want the notes to be bleeding into one another. When the next note on the adjacent string is in the same fret, this is when the finger rolling technique is necessary.
When changing string to a higher or lower fret, the note that you are moving from can be muted simply by lifting the fretting hand finger as you pick the next string.
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00:00 Intro
00:17 Let Ring Technique
00:31 When to use a Finger Roll
00:58 Descending Finger Roll
01:36 Let Ring Vs. Finger Roll
01:47 Ascending Finger Roll
02:29 Technique For Other Fingers
02:46 Exercise 1 Breakdown
03:38 Exercise 1 8th Notes
04:01 Developing Exercise 1
04:31 Exercise 2 Breakdown
05:14 Exercise 2 Quarter Notes
06:02 Exercise 2 8th Notes
06:12 Exercise 2 (Gm-Shape)
06:24 Example 3 Breakdown
07:02 Exercise 3 Quarter Notes
07:35 Exercise 3 8th Notes 5
07:52 Patreon Group / Thanks
8:05 Online Store
8:11 Fretboard Mastery
8:29 End Screen

[@so0pak5v9n]

I learned how to roll my fingers instinctively, trying to play different song tabs, and just now, years later, I came to UA-cam looking to see if my idea/ technique was correct. Thank you for making this video. It helps mentally when you're trying to learn a song to know that I'm using the right technique even though no one taught me it.

[@allanbahati1942]

Came here from Instagram. Thanks for your tips man! You've made me a better player.

[@Rynaylorguitar]

Thanks for the support 🙏🏻

[@JanM351531351]

This clears up so much for me!

[@Rynaylorguitar]

Great to hear. Thanks for watching!

[@maheshkulkarni6071]

Great my dear sir thank you so much sir

[@golflre7179]

Nice drills, thanks

[@Rynaylorguitar]

Glad you like them!

[@dwcleary8694]

Great video on an important subject! Though, I found it confusing that you refer to the high E string as a lower string, because it is closer to the floor. I learned to always refer to the strings in terms pitch, so the string closest to the floor is the highest string. With guitar, up is down, and down is up.

[@Rynaylorguitar]

I always work in the physical space, physically lower towards the floor or higher towards the ceiling. It may differ from other instructors but, as long as you're consistent with it, it's hopefully not too confusing.

[@jeale778]

Hi!!! Do you have the Guitar Pro Tabs for that exercices Finger Rolls??

[@Tydie.]

Wow I did this without knowing it was something lol

[@rockerfella0373]

I'm really struggling with this technique :/

[@gazburchmore1823]

Exercise 2 is the riff from magic fingers by Frank Zappa 😀🤘

[@mauricioalfaro9406]

Man, the real deal is working with 3 or 4 fret rollings...

[@Rynaylorguitar]

You're right. This was an introduction to the technique 👍🏻