We Don't Need No Stinking Wings!

My last song update was December 14th.

Yeah, I think you guys deserve another one.

LEARN TO FLY
Ha-ha!
OK, there is one HUGE thing I have to get out of the way first:
The real problem from this song comes not in the actual playing or instrumentation, but how the songs is mixed in Rock Band, versus the original song.
Here's a video of Learn To Fly in Rock Band:


Here's the music video for Learn To Fly (featuring Tenacious D). Sorry, embedding was disabled.

When it goes to the chorus ("I'm looking to the sky to save me..."), in Rock Band it's a repeat of the verse (more or less). In the original version, it's a repeat of the intro.

It was remixed (they have all the master tracks, and rhythm/lead guitar was broken up) for the sake of changing up the difficulty/patterns, but it's still interesting to note.

Might as well give you the whole damn song now anyways (or at least a fair chunk of it):
INTRO/CHORUS
G--4--44-444-/-6-66--6b-6-6/4-4-444-444-----
D--x--xx-xxx--/-x-xx---x--x-x/x--x-xxx-xxx-----
A--2--22-222-/-4-44--4b 4-4/2-2-222-222-----


Real simple: index finger on the second fret of the A string, held against the D string (just touch it) and ring or pinky on G string (heh, G string). It's shaped like a power chord, but it's called an octave chord (hitting the same note (B), on the next higher octave). Slide up, bend the strings up, then slide back down.

VERSE
e-------------2---------------------- 0--------------- 0--
B-----------------------------------------------------------
G----------------------------------------------------------
D-----4-----------------------4---------------2----------x2
A---2---2-------------------4---4-----------2---2--------
E--------------------------------------------------------

The verse give us our good old friend Mr. Arpeggio!

The chords you're going to need to know are:
Bsus2 barre chord (-24422: index on 2nd fret, ring on 4th fret D-string, pinky on 4th fret G-string)
F#5 power chord (244---: all you need to know is ring on 4th fret A string, pinky on 4th fret D-String)
E chord (0221--: We should all know this by now)

INTERLUDE (ripped off from here):
-G5---------------A5-------E5
Only me, I can't quite make it alone
G5---------------A5-----B5
Try to make this life I own, fly

G5: 355---
A5: 577---
E5: 022---
B5: -244--

Whew!
Reader DL Choices tomorrow

SETLIST UPDATED