Songs that you cant play on your guitar?

Alnico

Ok man, leave it with me for a day or so.
My new phone has a reasonable video camera, i'll see what me and google drive can do for you.
It's really not a hard song to play when you've seen how.
I don't drive at all but i'll look at the transport situation between here and there and let you know.

Give me a few days, i'll do my best for you.

robgilmo

No worries fella, the transport situation around here is basically if you don't have transport you don't have transport, its proper in the middle of nowhere, but if you ever need a week end in the middle of nowhere far away from normality and traffic and shit let me know.

Alnico

robgilmo said:

No worries fella, the transport situation around here is basically if you don't have transport you don't have transport, its proper in the middle of nowhere, but if you ever need a week end in the middle of nowhere far away from normality and traffic and shit let me know.

I will do, thanks man.

robgilmo

Your welcome fella.

Whatever you do though don't bring fucking prosecco, that  shit's like a bottle of bubbles and a cork stuck in the ceiling.

Modellista

Maybe a right (picking) hand thing rather than a left hand problem?   The left hand doesn't really do much.  Surely that video above tells you all you need to know about how to play it.  It's quite straightforward, although even the 70s guy gets the hammer-on bit slightly wrong in the timing.

starwarsnosebleed

robgilmo said:

If your ever in the deepest darkest depths of Suffolk you are more than welcome here fella.  

Telecasters are renowned for not working very well in Suffolk.

Bridgehouse

starwarsnosebleed said:

robgilmo said:

If your ever in the deepest darkest depths of Suffolk you are more than welcome here fella.  

Telecasters are renowned for not working very well in Suffolk.

I hear banjos work well...

starwarsnosebleed

You'll definitley have to move house im afraid.

robgilmo

I'm gonna look on right move and see if i can find somewhere where I can play a tele. Don't fancy a banjo, or a straw hat. I just couldn't get the sound right, I could hear all the notes, but also all the other notes your not supposed to hear, like old notes drowning put the new ones.

Alnico

Rob,

Meet Ben.
He'll fix this.............

Alnico

Also............

The riff is in G
You toggle between the G note on the low E string and the notes you play on the 5th and 4th strings yes?

Ok when you play the other two strings, go like this in a CIRCLE almost................

D string, fret 5 and 3
A string, fret 3 and 5

Just play those four notes and SEE the circular pattern they're in.
Then in between each note, play the G on the 6th string

That's not the riff but it's fucking close and it will get your right hand in sync.
I've just tried it and the issue is syncing the two hands.
The riff itself is easy, syncing isn't always so.

Play this and then the actual riff at half speed first to get the muscle memory / pattern into your brain.
You WILL get there, it's not THAT hard.

Right move charge extra for Telecaster players !

robgilmo

Thanks buddy, that's the problem right there.

robgilmo

And quite possibly the prosecco!

Voxman

PBW is one of those riffs that looks simple - its just hammering on/off on an Gm shape.  But to get the timing and phrasing right is a lot harder than it looks because there's some slight pausing within the phrase.  Even the lick library guy hasn't got it quite right* but if you follow that lick library vid you'll be close enough.  

*The phrasing difference is subtle but if you compare it to the original studio version you'll hear it. Interestingly, even George Harrison couldn't quite match the studio version live:

Voxman

Alnico said:

Also............

The riff is in G

Gm?

Alnico

Voxman said:

Alnico said:

Also............

The riff is in G

Gm?

Nope, G major.

Voxman

Alnico said:

Voxman said:

Alnico said:

Also............

The riff is in G

Gm?

Nope, G major.

 The song is in G but you referred to the riff ...the riff fingering is in a Gm shape. 

Alnico

Voxman said:

Alnico said:

Voxman said:

Alnico said:

Also............

The riff is in G

Gm?

Nope, G major.

 The song is in G but you referred to the riff ...the riff fingering is in a Gm shape. 

I just played a G Minor and it sounds wrong.
The whole riff is a G major chord. You play up to the 5th for the riff so the minor doesn't come into it.
If you play the minor it just sounds wrong.

I'm not understanding how a minor comes into play here ?
Even in between the riff it's a major chord and you have to do that so you can stitch that in between the riff ?

How and when are you playing a Minor ?

57Deluxe

Try a different tuning... or grow your fingers to George Harrison's 9" length!

Modellista

Voxman said:

 The song is in G but you referred to the riff ...the riff fingering is in a Gm shape. 

I'd generally consider the riff to be a G5 shape, although the 7th is in there which is part of the minor scale it doesn't necessarily imply a minor key.  There's certainly no 3rds.