I've Seen A Million Faces...

Yup. Sure have.

WANTED DEAD OR ALIVE

For some reason, after I've been off a song for a while, I come back to it and it's like "Oh, this is easy!" This is one of those songs.

The chords I've shown you, and that's the bulk of the song.

A tutorial on how to play the intro is here. As well as here.

Spartan update, I know, but I'm busy with other stuff right now.

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White Hole Moon

THIS IS SANS SOLO. ANYONE OUT THERE WHO CAN- sorry- can provide a decent tutorial to do it I'd be grateful.

BLACK HOLE SUN

Now, in my advetures of copping out, here's what's played underneath the solo, or the RHYTHM section (in Drop D tuning):

A---3-2-0-2h3---------
D---------------5-4-3--

Repeat until the barely coherent screeching stops.

Other than that, simple song (from here):
e*----------12---------------------10------------13------------------------12----
B*------12------12----12-------11------------13------13----13----------12------
G*--12-------------12------12------------10-------------10------10/12----------

e*---------11---------------------10--------------------12----------10-----------11--
B*-----11------11----11-------10------10----10-----12----------12------------13---
G*-12-------------12------12-------------12------12-------12-10-------10-13-------

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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.

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

Putting My Girl In The Limelight

Here it is, DOUBLE SONG UPDATE!!!!

LIMELIGHT
FYI, I'm skipping Creep for the sake of my wrist, and because I hate the song. Everything I've struggled through, but not Creep. It's not like it's a hard song, it's that I shouldnt be attempting barre chords like that when I'm recovering.

Hardest part was a -GASP!- Three way tie!

The chorus riff:
B------------------------------0------------------0-------
G-----------4----6------------------3------------------2--
D--------4------------------2------------------4----------
A-----6------------------2------------------4-------------
E--4------------------0------------------2----------------

The first triplet (three notes played in two beats) in the solo:
E-11----------14----------11----------14------------11------------------
B-----12--11------12--11------12--11--------12--11------14~-------11--
G----------------------------------------------------------------13------

The second triplet
E----14-16-18---14-16-18-16-18-19-16-18-19-18--19--21--21b-------

The triplets I have no advice for other than slowly work your way up. The frets are closer together that high up the neck, so it's easier to user you index, middle and ring fingers to fret those.

The chorus is an arpeggio between a modied G#minor (hold it like a power chord, but lift yuour finger after you pick the A string, then bring it back down over the Gstring), a modified E chord (on the third fret instead of the first) and and F# minor chord.

Fun to play, but you need to have fast hands.

And now that I'm done with Tier 3, on to Tier 4's first song...

ARE YOU GONNA BE MY GIRL
If you have any rhythm at all, it's really easy. Fast, loose, and only one hard part:
THE KEY HOOK.

I link to people if they can describe it better than I can. But that hook:
A. Is hard to transfer to
B. The one part you shouldn't fuck up when playing live.

However, there is one part I figured out on my own: the solo. I have done such a thing before.

E-10------------12--------------10--------------------------------
B----10-12b-10----10-12b--10----10-12b-10-8-10---10-12b-10--

Why this song is so damn popular is for another time...

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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

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Electric Skin!

Happy belated Thanksgiving everyone!

Remember, don't cook your turkey in an electrical oven, or else you'll get the titular result

Also, a DOUBLE SONG UPDATE? Haven't seen one of those in a while!

ELECTRIC VERSION
The problem with this song isn't that it's hard, it's just fast. The only part that I had to fudge around a bit on was the pre-chorus and chorus.

Pre-Chorus:
G--------9-9-9-------------------------
D-777---9-9-9--9---9-9---9-9-9-9
A-777---7-7-7--9----9-9---9-9-9-9
E-555------------7----7-7----7-7-7-7

Chorus:
E-----------x-x-7--x-x-9-----------
D---x-x-7--x-x-7--x-x-9---x-x-9
A---x-x-7--x-x-5--x-x-7---x-x-9
G---x-x-5--------------------x-x-7

CELEBRITY SKIN
Everything else can be mastered if you have a pulse, the bridge and last verse (using the same progression),... yeesh...

Basically, it's an arepggio of the A and D open chords, but it get pretty fast, and I find it hard to coordinate.
Start by switching positions every four beats, then get used to the string order.

Bridge
E----------------2---------------------2----------------------2-----------------------
B------2------------3-------2-----------3-------2-------------3--------------------
G---------2----2--------------2----2---------------2----2------------------------
D----2------0-----------2-------0-----------2--------0----------2b-----2b-
A-0------------------0--------------------0-------------------4--------4----
E------------------------------------------------------------2----------2--------

E---------------2---------------------2----------------------2-------------------
B------2-----------3-------2------------3------2-------------3-----------------
G--------2----2--------------2----2---------------2----2---------------------
D---2------0-----------2------0------------2--------0----------4-4-4-4-4-4-4-4-
A-0------------------0-----------------0-------------------------4-4-4-4-4-4-4-4-
E-------------------------------------------------------------------2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-

Look at this, Creep's going to be a bitch.

It's Also A Soda

Sorry to keep you all waiting. Weekends are usually a hassle for me. Not because they're busy but because I have to lug my guitar on the train when I go home on the weekends. This time I had to bring my computer home, and was unable to play this weekend. I have to borrow my brother's acoustic. This is how the conversation went:
Me- Hey, can I borrow your guitar for, like an hour or so?
Him- I don't approve of you borrowing my guitar. (ACTUAL WORDS)
Me- But you're not playing it, you're playing Playstation. I won't break it or anything.
Him- Well, I think you would.

I have never wanted to curbstomp a 16-year-old so badly.

ORANGE CRUSH
The chorus is the hardest part. Not too hard, but you will need to change up positions and it can get awkward.
First, know these 3 chords: E (022100), B (-24422) and, Fm (244322).
Arrpeggiate as such:
E----------0-----------------------------------------------2---------------------------------
B-------0-----0------------------4--------------------2----------------------------4--------
G----1-----------1------------4-----4-------------------------3-----------------4-----4-----
D---------------------------4-----------4----------4-------------------------4-----------4--
A--------------------2------------------------------------------4------2------------------
E--0-------------------------------------------2----------------------------------------------

The solo is simple, but all harmonics, and could take a while to get the sound right. Remember to hold your finger on the line between that fret and the next one.
E------12-----------------------------
B--12-----------------12--------7----
G---------------7---------12--------7-
D----------------------------7---------

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Can't Stand The Paranoia

As promised:

SABOTAGE
One of the few hip-hop songs that make sense in one of these games. Luckily it's one of the easier songs that Harmonix (gasp!) overcharted. Most of the difficulty comes from the bass. They included the record-scratching parts, which can be accomplished my scratching the pick across the top two strings. More specifics as they develop.
It's incredibly simple: G# power chord (466---), mixed with a harmonic on the A string of the 5th fret.

To make a harmonic, light press your finger above the nut on the fifth fret.
As for the solo, these two positions:
E----10^----12^-----
B----13^----15^-----

I THINK I'M PARANOID
Arpeggio: Holding a position on the guitar (chord) and plucking strings in a certain order. Best results for this one: bar the index finger over the B, G, D strings on the 10th fret. bar the ring finger over the 12th fret. Pick as such:
E----------------------------------------------------
B---------12---10-----------------------------10----
G--12-------12-------10---------12-------10------
D------------------------10-h12--------12-----------

That's the main riff, the rest is simple enough.
Except for the Outro:
e|-----------|---------------|----------3-------------------------|
B|-----------|---------------|--------------------------3^3-3-2--|
G|--x---x-x-|-x-------------|-0-3-0-5^-----0-3-0--------------|
D|--5---5-3-|-3-8-----------|------------------------------------|
A|--5---5-3-|-3-8-x8-------|------------------------------------|
E|--3---3-1---1-6-----------|------------------------------------|

Working on the harder songs next, but tomorrow's update = :awesome!

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