Saturday, August 1, 2009

Riff of the Day: Low (Cracker)

Time for a non-Rush riff. This is the intro/verse guitar part.

It's a neat little two-bar strum, good for working on string-skipping with the right hand:

___s-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-|
e|-0-0-0-0-0---0-0---0-0---0-0-0-0-|
b|-0-0-0-0-0---0-0---0-0---0-0-0-0-|
g|-7h9-9p7-9---7-9---9-9---7h9-9p7-|
d|---------------------------------|
a|---------------------------------|
e|---------------------------------|
___|_______|_______|_______|_______

________________________vib.
___s-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-|
e|-0-0-0-0-0---0-0---0-0-------0-0-|
b|-0-0-0-0-0---0-0---0-8~~~~~~-0-0-|.
g|-7h9-9p7-9---7-9---9-9~~~~~~-7p9-|.
d|---------------------------------|
a|---------------------------------|
e|---------------------------------|
___|_______|_______|_______|_______

Key:
~ vibrato
h hammer-on
p pull-off

Most of the work in the riff is on the right (picking) hand; keep it going in a steady 16th-note strum and focus on keeping it loose. Keep in mind that you're not hitting strings on every stroke and let the two open strings ring cleanly.

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