Hey guys, what’s up? It’s Aaron. Sorry the video cut off there, so we’re just going to go ahead and take it from here. I’m going to splice in two together. Where the video cut off, I run out of memory space, was the very end of the chorus actually, which is just that last D… you strum it, you let it ring out. Then you play the intro again, which is on the first video. Then you play the second verse which is the same pattern as the first, except the second time through the verse, whenever you get to “And all these days I spend awake” you’re just going to strum, ok, so this time you’re going to strum it E minor-C-A minor and E minor. Now I’m not going to strum this right now because it’s almost midnight. And I’m in my apartment complex, because I want to show you the solo. So I’m not going to strum this but the basic strum pattern from early E minor is down, down, down, up, up, down, down, up, down, up, switch to your C, down, down, down, up, up, down, down, up, down, up, A minor, the same thing, E minor.
Ok the solo, now this solo I think is probably, it will take you a little bit to get it if you’re a beginner, but it’s a good solo to start on. Ok so basically what this solo, looking at it on the tab, you’re going to see a 12 with a forward slash. What that means is you’re going to put your pointer finger on the twelfth fret. Play that note [Demonstration] and then slide it all the way down and off. Now once you to play that to start the solo, you’re going to take your pointer finger and bar it across the fifth fret. Ok, you don’t need to worry about this low E string. Just bar across the bottom five strings. Ok, what you’re going to do is you’re going to play the five, this is the one, two, three, four, five, so your A string is the fifth string. You’re going to play that five-hammer on with your ring-that’s five hammer seven. Then since you’re already barring, you’re going to go down and play the fifth note - hammer seven on your D string. And then after you play that, you’re going to slide up here to your ninth fret. So it’s going to sound like this. You’re going to start with this.
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Then you’re going to play.
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So bar across the fifth fret, you’re going to play the A string which you’re going to call five. You’re going to play five on the fifth fret, hammer on the seven. Then you’re going to play it four. Do the fourth string on the fifth fret with that bar… hammer on seven, slide seven to nine…. I want you to slide seven to nine. Take that bar and put it right back down on seven. Ok, so it’s bar and bottom five strings on the seventh fret now. Ok this is not on the tab but I think it sounds better whenever you listen to it. Instead of doing what the tab says, playing that G string first, you’re going to go, so down that D, and you’re going to play seven, hammer nine on the D string. It’s going to be loud. I’m going to be yelled at. And then you’re going to go down on the G string. You’re going to play seven hammer nine, ok. Then on the B string, you’re going to play seven hammer eight, and then slide eight to 10. Ok I want you to slide eight to 10. You’re going to play it 10 again, and slide to 12. Ok, I want you to do that. You’re going to go up here to the you know, slide back down to the ninth fret with your G string, and you’re going to play, pointer finger, it’s quarter, you’re going to play nine, nine, nine, slide to 11, then 11, 11, 11, slide to 12, then play the 12 by itself.
Ok then come down here to the B string. Pointer finger on the tenth fret and you’re going to play 10, 10, then put your ring finger on the twelfth fret, play that note there on the twelfth fret of the B, and bend it up, and then go down to 10. 12 bend, then I play 10, 10, 10, 10 hammer 12. Then this is probably the trickiest part, your number, you’ll see it’s 12, 12, 12, 12, 12, 10, eight, 10, eight, seven, five, seven, five, three, and then five on the B. That looks kind of complicated but what you’re going to realize is you’re really just kind of walking the steps down. So when you get to the very last part, you’re going to play 12, 12, 12, 12 four times, then you’re going to put your ring finger on that twelfth fret, that’s where you’re playing it. The pointer finger is on the tenth fret. All right, you’re going to play the twelfth fret note… then lift you ring up, so you’re on the tenth fret, ok so you’re going to play 12, 10, slide your pointer finger down to eight. Play it eight, ring finger is on 10, slide your pointer finger down, after you play eight to seven. The middle finger plays eight… seven again… pointer finger down to five, ring finger plays seven, five again, slide down, pointer finger plays three, five, then play that high E open. The tab says fifth fret on the B string. But fifth fret on the B, and open E are the same note. Surprise! So… instead of playing the fifth fret B, just play an open E.
All right I’m going to actually put my electric down and then just play on my acoustic. I should’ve done that earlier. All right, so we’re going to play the solo right now in the acoustic. It shouldn’t bother them. We’ll get rid of it if it does. All right, so you’re going to start here and play 12, ok on the fifth fret, and this is going to sound like the solo together [Demonstration] oops sorry, I’ll start over.
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So we’ll just practice this slow.
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Okay, altogether. Bear with me I just learned this one.
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Now, whenever you play that on electric guitar, it’s on heavy distortion, it will sound sweet. The notes will really ring out and carry and it will sound just like it does in the album.
After the solo, it’s been basically just strumming the whole way out, “And all these days I spend awake.”, just.
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Same strum pattern we talked about before… down, down, down, up, up, down, down, up, down, up, until you get to the very ending. And the ending is just the intro.
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The whole thing, it’s in the first video. And then the ending is just this E minor. [Demonstration] You’re just playing, on the E minor, six-five-four-three-four-five, and then it strums in the E minor and it ends on E minor.
So good luck guys. Hope this helps. The tab is over here. Check them out. Let me know if you have any questions and we’ll get you taken cared of so you can learn this song and jam out to it. Take care!
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