Hey what’s up everybody? It’s Aaron. I’ll give a song I want to teach you today. It’s by Stained. It’s one of the most requested songs I have. Sorry, it has taken me so long but this song is called So Far Away. Ok, so it’s So Far Away. The tab that I’m going to show you guys for the intro, two tabs. One’s for the intro, one’s for the chord strumming. When they play it live, Aaron Lewis usually just does the strumming and lets the lead guitarist do the picking. But I’m going to teach you guys how to do both so that, that way if you want to cover it, you could play the intro and then you can actually, you can play the chords while you’re singing.
Ok, the tab is going to be over here. The first tab, ok, that’s for the intro picking. That tab sets it in standard tuning. It’s not for the way they have it. The guitar, it might, my guitar now is tuned up half a step. The reason it’s tuned down half a step is because that’ the way that he sings it whenever he’s strumming the chords. So you can play this intro in standard tuning but the problem you’re going to have is whenever you’re going to strum the chords, you’re not going to sound right. You’re going to be half step too high. Alright, so the guitar is in half step down tuning. E flat, A flat, D flat, G flat, B flat and E flat. Ok, so it sounds like this… ok. One of my easy way to get to this tuning if you’re not familiar with it, put your capo n the fist fret then tune it to standard tuning… whenever you’ll take the capo off, it will be half step down, ok. Alright, let’s get into this.
For the intro, there’s really, it’s the same notes but there’s two ways of playing it. The intro sounds like this, ok it sounds like this… ok. It’s that repeated. So for that part, I want to start out that by teaching you this. There’s two way to play it. The way I prefer to play it is different from the way I’m going to teach you. It’s basically juts different fingerings on how to get the different chords. But I think the easiest one for you guys, what I want you to do is start down the seventh fret. Ok, you can pull a tab over here. I’d be looking at the tab at the same time. Take your pointer finger, bar across both strings on the seventh fret, ok the bottom two strings. What you’re going to do is you’re going to take your ring finger or middle, whichever is preference with you. I use my middle finger, and put it on the second string, which is your high E and then your B, so the B string on the eighth fret, ok, your ring finger, that note. So the way this picking pattern goes is it goes, you start to play the high E, then the B… ok. So you play the B, and I’m sorry, high E, then the B… then the high E… and you play the high E again but this time you put a finger down there on the eighth fret of your high E string. So it sounds like this… ok. Then you play that same picking pattern again, but this time instead of switching whatever you switch up you go from, this ring finger here goes up to the tenth fret. So it sounds like this… and you back here to the fifth fret on the high E… then you play seven, eight on the B string… ok. So the easy way I think to teach you guys as far as beginners, take this pointer finger seventh fret bar across the bottom two strings, ring finger here on the eighth ok, so you’re going to play… So you’re going to play high E… B… high E… B… high E… high E again… but when you go to play that second time, slide this pointer finger up so you’re covering the eighth fret on both the high E and the B string, ok. So it’s like this, you’re going to go… let’s see… slide your pointer finger up, play the high E again, so… tenth fret… fifth fret high E… down the B string you’re going to play seven… eight, ok. So it sounds together like this… ok. Now when I reach up, when I’m, if you have this bar across, then basically you can slide it down to the fifth. Play the fifth and then when you go play the seven, eight on the B string, I just take this ring finger. It’s perfect spacing, two frets above it on the B string, so it’s… seven, eight, ok. So, really slow, I’m going to kind of zoom in ad close as I can. Ok, I hope you guys can see this. We’ll start on the seventh fret, with the ring finger down the eighth fret of the B. I’m going… sorry… ok. That repeats all with the verses. And then there’s also another part of this tab. If you have a second guitar playing, you can see the tab over here. It’s really a pretty simple intro in simple little tabs. You don’t even need me to teach that to you. Now, let’s get into the chord…
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