The Rake
The rake is a common technique in Blues lead guitar. It is used quite often in the C form, particularly by B.B. King. The rake is achieved by first fretting a note and then laying a finger (or fingers) across two or three adjacent strings. The pick is then raked across the strings, causing a muted sound leading up to the original note which is then left ringing. A rake is indicated by an arrow in the tablature pointing up to the note to be raked.
Rake pick across strings.
Notice how the rake adds expression to the first note here.
In this example the E is played with the first finger and the damping is done with the second and third fingers.
Class Sessions
1- Developing a Theme
2- Moving Licks
3- Grace Notes
4- Set Rhythms
5- More Set Rhythms
6- Two Bar Rhythms
7- Ties
8- Across the Bar
9- Triplets
10- Triplet Set Rhythms
11- Sliding Scales
12- Major Pentatonic - Other Forms
13- Chords and Arpeggios
14- Major Pentatonic Scales
15- LESSON TWENTY TWO
16- 12 Bar Arpeggio Riff
17- Arpeggio Solo
18- Sixteenth Notes
19- Set Rhythms With Sixteenths
20- The C Form
21- INTRODUCTION
22- Slow Blues Solo
23- Tremolo
24- The Blues Scale
25- Blues Licks
26- Blues Solo
27- Higher Up
28- The Trill
29- The D Form
30- LESSON THIRTY ONE
31- The Rake
32- Twelve-Eight Time
33- The A Form
34- LESSON THIRTY THREE
35- The G Form
36- Combining Major and Minor
37- Rhythm Notation
38- Common Picking Directions
39- Adding the Minor Third
40- Summary of Scales
41- Chords
42- A New Solo
43- Note Values
44- G Form Solo
45- A Form Solo
46- C Form Solo
47- Diagrams
48- Arpeggios
49- Dotted Notes
50- Combining Forms
51- Tablature
52- The Shuffle
53- Tablature Symbols