How to Play One Last Breath by Creed part 2

Hey guys, what’s up? It’s Aaron. I just did the first lesson of “One Last Breath” with Creed. I’m going to play it one more time really slow. I changed up my chair for a stool, and then I’m going to zoom in just on the guitar. So I’m going to cut my face up right now, so you guys are going to be able to see the guitar, not my face. So here we go. This is just the first part and we’re going to start to work on the second. Okay, okay here we go, all right. [Demonstration] So one more time, turn this whole on… alright. [Demonstration] Now the second part, I’m just going to leave it hear. The second part is actually I think easier than the first part. But if you look at the tabs, the only part different in that first riff is the part really where he has, it’s in the very middle, if you can get halfway across that line on the first, riff one, he has two-three-two-then a two hammer three and two, and like there below it. And that actually is the part where I modified it to this [Demonstration] alright. The G part he had is really the same thing [Demonstration] so that’s the first part, the first half of the first riff. All right, the second half of the first riff, you’re going to start out with the same note. Pointer finger, second fret, alright. You’re going to pick the D string open and that E string second fret… and give it that base note again on the D string open… but instead of going to the fifth, this time you go three, two on the high E you’re going to go. [Demonstration] Second fret on your high E and the base note open with E… that D open base note again… high E three, two… then you’re going to take your pointer finger off and you’re going to play the high E open… take your pointer finger, I’m at on, then pull off… and you don’t have to pull down your electric guitar, just straight down and straight off until we get that note. All right, so it’s going to sound like this… see… okay, so I play… I actually add another base note in there after that three I played… and your middle finger comes here to hang around the third fret of the B string, so it’s… then use this ring finger, raise on here to the fourth fret of your A string, and play… four, open… then, put a bar down. The bar is kind of like your A. So the bar covers the D, G, and B chords, alright? Then after you play that four, open, that bar goes down and you play D string, G string, B string, and then you play the B string again, and you do a hammer on and off with that middle finger. So that together sounds like this. [Demonstration] All right, now I come down here and make this bar, the bar across the bottom, five strings here on the guitar. Then you take your ring and pinky and just stick them on the fourth fret of your two middle strings. Then the next little set of notes you play is, four down, four up. You start on the A string. You play it A-D-G-B, and then you go to the high E and you play [Demonstration]. So you’re starting on the A, you’re going A-D-G-B-E-D-G-D, then you’re going to slide that bar up and cover all six strings in the third fret. And you’re going to put your ring and pinky on the A and D strings of the fifth fret, and your middle comes down here on the fourth fret of your G string. And you’re going to play E-A-D-G, so the top four, one, two, three, four, and then the bottom four coming up, one-two-three- four. All right, so one more time, slow. [Demonstration] All right guys, five minutes left. Let’s see if we can teach you, so that whole thing altogether. [Demonstration] Sorry, I get confused with playing and all… that’ all riff one. That’s all I thought in the first and second lesson combined. Sorry if I messed up at little times. I haven’t—it took me a day or so to learn it, so I don’t have perfected it yet. The second part is just strum patterns. The four chords I want you to use in the riff two A, which you’ll see when you look at the tabs, there’s riff two A, take your pointer finger on the A string, put it on the fifth fret, ring and pinky on the seventh fret. You can actually bar, but you want to just try and the A, D and G, just so it gets that little dark base, the kind of dark and low note. Not a trouble— [Demonstration] If you want you could try and use your fingers too. [Demonstration] Strum pattern is down, down, down, up, up, down, down, up, down, up, and I switch down here to actually an F sharp. You’re going to have your bar on the second fret, four, four on your A and D. That’s your ring and pinky. And then middle finger goes on the G string, third fret, and that, so the strum pattern up here is down, down, down, up, up, down, down, up, down, up… down, down, down, up, up, down, down, up, down, up… that chord I’m going to is I’m barring instead of crossing all six, just the bottom five, moving that ring and pinky down from the A and D, to the D and G strings. That’s the fourth chord, or third chord… fourth chord is move it up here, bar across all six on the third fret, middle finger fourth fret of your G… ring and pinky are on the fifth fret of you’re a and D. So this is the G major bar chord. And the strum pattern I’m going to use, I’m going to play it for you really quick [Demonstration] down, down, down, up, up, down, let’s see, switch to the last down… so, down, down, down, up, up, down, down, up, down, up, switch, down, down, down, down, up, up, down, down, up, down, up. [Demonstration] All right, that’s riff two A. You’ll see on the thing on the bottom, it says riff two B, just like it says on the tab, all these is, it’s the same as two A, it just has more distortion. Riff three is pointer finger second fret A, ring and pinky fourth fret of your D and G, and it's just this [Demonstration] to that three, four, five.[Demonstration] strum pattern is down, down, down, up, switch, down, down, down, up, down, up… down, down, down, up, up, down, down, up, down, up, like that. The fourth riff is probably the most difficult. It goes from an E minor. [Demonstration] So E minor, down, down, down, up, slide it up to the fifth fret and put your pointer finger on the low E [Demonstration] up here to the five on the A string, seven, seven on the A and G, move everything down. Pointer finger fifth fret on the E, and the seventh fret on the A and D… slide that up to the seven and nine… back down to the three and five, so it’s… like that. Riff five is basically the same as the first riff except that it’s just the first half of it. So hope that helps guys. I’ll play it one more time as slow as I can, and make sure you guys can see this. [Demonstration]