So we have chosen D major.
When we play the first note, that is B3 / D, with our thumb we can simultaneously play either A open or D open, like this.
Why are we taking these two strings?
Because both of them are notes from the D major chord. If we mix the notes D, A, and F#, that becomes D major. Anywhere on the guitar, if you play D, A, and F#, it will form a D major chord.
Right now, we are taking only two of these notes because F# is not available as an open string here. If needed later, we will press and play it specially. But for now, we are taking these two notes.
So we played B3, and with that we added D open. This becomes our first sound.
Whenever we play like this, where the thumb and another finger play together with the bass note, we call this a pinch.
So if I use the term P, it means a note played together with a bass note. We call this pinch.
This term is very important, because when we apply this to songs later, we will say P, P many times.
Now what do we do next? We play the next note, Re.
For Re, that means E, we hold the A major chord and in this shape we can take any bass note. By “any” I mean the 6th string, 5th string, or 4th string. We can use any of these.
So this becomes Re.
Now after Re, how do we play Ga?
For Ga, which is F#, again we take the D major chord, and we can play it with either D open or A open as the bass note.
Then after Ga, the next note is G, which is Ma. We can take this with the G major chord, and here also we can use any bass note, because all those notes belong to G major. So again we can use the 6th, 5th, or 4th string as the bass note.
So this becomes Ma.
I think this much is clear. These are our first four notes:
Sa Re Ga Ma
Now we come to Pa. To play Pa, even if you do not hold any chord, you can still play it easily with D open as the bass note. Or you can take A open as the bass note. And if you hold the D major chord, that is also absolutely fine.
Now to play Dha, we need to make this barre with the index finger. You may take a full barre or a half barre.
The chord shape here is actually B minor, though G major could also work, but here we have taken B minor. We have played this with D open.
For Dha, we generally do not take A open with the half shape. We take either D open, or if we have taken a full barre then we can use any bass note. Remember, for bass notes we usually try to use the top three strings because they sound heavier: the 6th, 5th, and 4th strings.
Now after Dha, for Ni, one option is to take a full barre and use the top three strings, but there is a better option.
That is to shift the D major shape to the 9th fret. Then it becomes an A major chord shape. How?
This is D, then E, F, F#, G, G#, and then A.
But when we play A major from here, we should always keep the pinky on D string, 11th fret, so that it becomes a complete A major chord and we can use all the strings. If we do not use the pinky, then the D string will not match properly with the A major chord.
So for Ni, we play this shape, and here we can take A open, or E open, or D open as the bass note. All three notes are available here as bass notes.
Now we come to the last note, the higher Sa. We play this with the pinky on E string, 10th fret, which gives us the higher D. We keep the index finger on the bottom three strings. Here we do not need a full barre; a half barre is enough. But even if you keep a full barre, there is no problem.
So with the bottom three strings barred, you can use D open as the bass note, or A open as the bass note.
Now we should revise once by playing all the notes together with the bass note, meaning we play them as P, that is, by pinching.
D, E, F#, G, A, B, C#, D
I am saying the names of the notes.
Now our scale is complete.
We have now understood what the term P means.
What comes next?
We need to understand one more stroke, which we call slap.
When we hit like this with our thumb, we call it a slap.
So first we played P, meaning pinch with bass note, and then the next stroke is slap.
This is a stroke that can be played either with a note or by itself. If we want to do it together with a note, it is a little tricky. For example, if we want to play Sa with a slap, we will play it like this.
We will discuss this later in percussive guitar, but for now this is our blank slap. Here we hold the wrist in this position behind the strings and simply move the thumb up and down.
That becomes the slap.
So now we will practice like this:
Sa, slap, Sa, slap...
After practicing this, we will learn one very easy song.
If you want, I can also turn this into clean lesson-style English for your website, instead of a direct translation.