Incubus Made For TV Movie Guitar Lesson
Made For TV Movies, one of my students was in the other day brought this song to my attention, really cool little riff by Incubus. It does something that a lot of contemporary songs do and that is use as a chord shape and just moves it around to some place else.
Now, the first time this happened, I can just see thinking that that was a mistake. I can make something out of that, so we stumble into a kind of cool things. So, all what really happens there is starting with the C chord. You don’t have to be at the whole C chord on because you're only going to play the fifth, fourth and third strings. So, it’s a C shape and it’s just little arpeggio picking. Hitting the fifth, fourth, third, and fourth strings again, then sliding that shape up three frets, so your two fingers are coming up to the fifth and sixth frets of the fourth and fifth strings.
And it’s the open second string that makes that so unique. So, you need to kind of break across the fifth, fourth, third, and second strings. And then work your way back hitting the third string and the fourth string which are the same note. So, don’t let it mess up your ear because you just heard the same note playing two places thinking you made a mistake. That’s what happens. It does it again and you strum. But the last two notes are a couple of base notes. You move your third finger to the sixth string of the sixth fret and then the open fourth string on your way back to the C chord.
The other section is just a couple of power chords. You probably saw them, G, E, C, D, and Bb. So, I’ll try to put together a more extensive lesson on this over at Totally Guitars. So, if you’d like to see Made For TV Movies by Incubus as one of the song selections, the way we choose a lot of stuff out there is we let people recommend lessons and then let everybody else vote on. So, if this one you’d like to see at Totally Guitars, be sure to come over there, put in your vote for it and enough votes for this, I will get to the lesson for it. We have a lot of other songs, we do have other Incubus songs—is there and then we have some other Greenday, other kind of recent stuff, Third Eye Blind and a lot of classic stuff from the 80’s, 70’s and 60’s. I haven’t gone to the 50’s stuff yet. That might be on tomorrow’s agenda.
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