How do I play this?
Posted on August 2, 2007
Filed Under Tabs - Understanding |
this is a good song from DMB, my favorite band, could u give advice on how to play it i dont get how to do it.
E————————–
B-x–x—-x–x–x–x-x-x—
G-x–x—-x–x–x–7-x-x—
D-x–x—-x–x–11—9-x—
A-x–9—-x–9———10–
E-7——-7—————-
For a detailed explanation of how to read tab check the “Understanding Tab” post on this site. The big problem with most of the tab you find on the Internet is that it doesn’t give you a sense of time (i.e. how long you should hold each note). Since the example you posted is of a song you know that makes things easier. Just play the notes by pressing down the frets of the strings indicated in the tab. Use your 1st finger to play the notes on the 7th fret. Use your 3rd finger to play the notes on the 9th fret. Use your little finger to play the notes on the 10th and 11th fret.
Dave comes up with some wonderful and amazing riffs. The key to playing them smoothly is to think in terms of position playing. Position playing is the concepts of assigning one finger per fret. In this case you are playing in 7th position (your index finger is camping out on the 7th fret) Once you establish that, your other fingers will fall into place. On the riff you sent, as with a number of Dave riffs, your little finger is going to get a work out.
What Dave often does is arpeggiate chords. Instead of playing the notes of the chord all at once (strumming) he plays the notes individually so that you feel the movement of each note. As you play the riff you will find you hand forming some familiar chord shapes. Of course with Dave you’ll be forming some unfamiliar shapes too.
All the best,
John
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