Wednesday, March 4, 2009

Not Making That Joke

Nope. But I WILL type up my lesson for "Don't Fear The Reaper"!

DON'T FEAR THE REAPER
There are little solo parts throughout the song, and require some memorization. Despite my less than perfect memory, these aren't too hard technically speaking. You don't have to change your position much, and there's no note shorter than an eighth. For me, it was playing this part up to speed AND cleanly:

From this tab:
======Am====G======F=====G
G--------2-0--------0--------0-------0---
D------2----------0--------0-------0------
A----0----------2--------3-------2--------
E-------------3--------1-------3-----------

This is another one of those lessons where I can't really give much more advice than "work it up to speed" It is a good opportunity to review fingerings:
A chord- middle finger on 2nd fret D string, ring on 2nd fret G string.
G chord- middle finger on 3rd fret lowE string, index finger on 2nd fret A string, pinky on 3rd fret highE string
F chord- index finger on 1st fret lowE string,ring finger on 3rd fret A string

Still not going to make that reference.

Ah, we've all earned it:


FYI, next song will be "Desolation Row" by My Chemical Romance, as per the Bonus Songs. After that, maybe Dani California.

SETLIST UPDATED

BTW, regarding what happens tomorrow, this will either be the best or worst thing you'll see:
Watchmen The Saturday Morning Cartoon

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