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Answer Title

Answer to Problem #16

Category

Riffing

Jeff's Guitar's tuning

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

Guitar Jeff used

Single Coil pickup style (Strat)

Key of

Effects Jeff was using if any

Reverb, moderately clean tone

Solution notes

This one was tricky for a lot of you. I knew that would happen and I didn't care. I did it on purpose. The main error that I saw in a lot of the submissions, (of which there were over 200) was it seemed most of you were more worried about the picking pattern and less worried about the chords. What I mean is, because of the picking pattern and the funky sort of chunking going on, you can almost get away with being totally wrong with regard to the double stops and chords and just chunk away at stuff in the same key and it will almost sound ok.

A couple of the tabs that came in where really good transcriptions of what I played. So some of you are ready for level 8, but we're not there yet. We have to gear this site for the majority. The majority is still around levels 3 to 5 for now. That's not to say I won't keep things interesting.

This problem was probably a little higher up the scale than I put it. However that was mostly because of the first chord and not really much of anything else.

Accurate tabs are below and there is a video for this problem as always.

Video Lesson

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"Actual" TABS for the problem

The opening chord is a weird one but it's a cool one to know. It's usually a good key change transition chord. What I mean by that is a chord you use to go from something like a Verse part in G into a new key change part of a song, like a bridge or chorus that might be in A or Bb.

Eb Maj7 sus4/D

E__ ______________10_10_10__10_10__10_10_10_10_10_10_____________
B_________________9__9__9___9__9___9__9__9__9__9__9_____________
G__________x_x____8__8__8___8__8___8__8__8__8__8__8_>slide chord dwn__
D__________x_x____0__0__0___0__0___0__0__0__0__0__0_____________
A_______________________________________________________________
E_12--sl dwn-_______________________________________________________

E__________________________________________________
B__________________________________________________
G_3-5-3-0___________________________________________
D________5__3-5-3-0_________________________________
A__________________5__3-5-3-0__1^^grad bend^1/2_~________
E__________________________________________________

Gm Bb C

E________________________6__________________________
B________________________6_x________________________
G__________________x_x_____x_5~__x_x__3-5-3-0________
D__________________x_x___________x_x_________5______
A___________________________________________________
E_19--sl dwn--__0_3_____________________________________

Gm Bb C

E______________6__________________________________
B______________6_x________________________________
G_________x_x____x_5~_x_x__3^^grad bend^1/2_~_________
D_________x_x_________x_x________________________
A________________________________________________
E__x_x_3_________________________________________

Gm Bb C Gm

E_________________________________________________
B_________________________________________________
G__3-5-3-0_________________________________________
D_________3-5-3____________________________________
A______________3-5-3-0_____________________________
E_____________________x_3_________________________

Bb C

Gm Bb C

E________________________6__________________________
B________________________6_x________________________
G__________________x_x_____x_5~__x_x__3-5-3-0~_______
D__________________x_x___________x_x________________
A___________________________________________________
E___________x_x_3___________________________________

Gm Bb C

E________________________6_________________________
B________________________6_x_______________________
G__________________x_x_____x_5~__x_x__3-5-3-0_______
D__________________x_x___________x_x_______________
A__________________________________________________
E___________0_3____________________________________

F G

E______________________________________________________
B_______________________________________0______________
G_3-5-3-0________________________________0__x_x_________
D________3-5-3-0____________________________x_x_________
A______________3-5-3-0__________________________________
E______________________1^^grad bend^1/2_~___________________

Eb Maj7 sus4/D

E__ ___________10_10_10__10_10__10_10_10_10_10_10________________
B______________9__9__9___9__9___9__9__9__9__9__9________________
G______________8__8__8___8__8___8__8__8__8__8__8_>slide chord dwn_x_x_
D______________0__0__0___0__0___0__0__0__0__0__0____________x_x_
A_______________________________________________________________
E_______________________________________________________________

E__10_____10_____________________________________
B__10_____10_____________________________________
G__10_____10__>slide chord down________________________
D__ 9______9_____________________________________
A__10____________________________________________
E________________________________________________

G9 Version 2 as shown on the video lesson

G9 G9/A

E__ 5_____5_____________________________________
B__ 6_____6_____________________________________
G__ 4_____4_____________________________________
D__ 5_____5_____________________________________
A________ 0______________________________________
E________________________________________________