Big E rake technique

[Ron Hogan]

I may have posted this about Buddy’s rake techniques. I love adding rakes to the C6 and had wrote an instrumental using a lot of rakes.



https://youtu.be/6MEpQcJyZAw?si=KkeHM2XlLsCPC4i_

[Justin Shaw]

Thanks for posting this! I played acoustic fingerstyle guitar for about 10 years before branching out to electric instruments. I find that many of the techniques also work great on electric, but are used far less frequently: rasguaeado, thumb click for the beat, banjo rolls, abrupt palm stops, and many, many more, including, of course, rakes!

[Larry Dering]

Nice demo Ron. Cool technique.

[Steve Mueller]

Nice lick!

[Dale Rottacker]

The first time I heard Buddy rake, I thought it was the coolest thing since sliced bread.

[Roger Rettig]

The rake - so effective and, I believe, it's driven by a desire to replicate what falls under the fingers so easily for a pianist.

Jerry Reed was a demon at this technique on six-string. With his chord-voicings, and you could tell he listened to Ray Charles.

Almost forty years ago now, I was at a class given by Paul Franklin in the UK ('84, '85, maybe?) and he demonstrated the rake. Back then, he definitely dragged his thumb back across the strings (much like JR) but, in his teachings now, he advocates pick-blocking the same move. That's much harder for me but Paul, of course, has it perfected.

(Edited after some thought): Maybe Paul used a finger-pick and not the thumb. The point is, it was pretty cool. Now it's even cooler - he articulates each note in the rake, but really fast and with total precision.

I just found that a backwards-rake with my thumb tends to twist the pick. It's way easier with the 1st or 2nd finger.)

Nice job, Ron.

[Steve Hinson]

John Hughey was a great"raker"-seems like he did it on"Bloody Mary Morning".

[Ron Hogan]

TTT