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Answer Title

Answer to Problem #14

Category

Single note hooks

Jeff's Guitar's tuning

Standard E, A, D, G, B, E

Guitar Jeff used

Humbucking pickup style (fat strat)

Key of

Effects Jeff was using if any

Reverb, (mild level of compression)<optional

Solution notes

I put a couple posts in the Ear Training forum about this particular problem. I have to say I was extremely impressed with the tab submissions that came in for this one. I expected that nobody would nail the exact positioning I was playing the piece in but many of you came very close. Ultimately what was important was finding the pitches and getting it to sound good on your equipment. Take a look at the tabs below and see how you did with it.

Video Lesson

"Actual" TABS for the problem

Main Riff

Am F Am

E____________________13____________________________
B_____________13_10_____13_10___6__________________
G_________________________________5__2_5_2~________
D_____14_10________________________________________
A__12______________________________________________
E__________________________________________________

The line below is not being done with arpeggios. It's a scale down basically but it's mixed up out of scale order. It's utilizing an Am scale. Chords are my interpretation and what I used to write the piece. You could skip the Dm and the G/B on the line below and just do F, C, Am if you want. The Dm and the G/B are just accent chord hits.

F Dm C G/B Am

E___________________________________________
B___________________________________________
G___2_0_____________________________________
D_3_____3_2_0___2_0_________________________
A_____________3______3_2_3_2_0______________
E___________________________________________

Ending portion

F chord is struck twice as an accent so I wrote it twice.

F Am F F C Am

E___________________________________________
B_____________5-6~__5_6-5____________________
G_________________________7-5_______________
D________7~___________________7~____________
A_2------8_____________________________________
E___________________________________________