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Answer Title

Answer to Problem #8

Category

Double stop leads and or riffing

Jeff's Guitar's tuning

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

Guitar Jeff used

Single coil pickup Stratocaster style

Key of

C or Cm

Effects Jeff was using if any

Reverb, and a low level of overdrive

Solution notes

This was a little tricky. I did give some clues on the mp3 but not many. I wanted to see the positioning that people would put it in but I also wanted everyone to have a crack at a type of playing that will come up quite often. I mean this is a very common style of riffing. The more double stops like the ones used in this that you know the better off you'll be. As I've said before a lot of this is about tabbing or figuring out what you've heard before or know from experience. When you learn stuff don't just learn it to play it. Remember what the individual parts of it sound like so you can easily spot them in other songs you might want to learn or even write.

Video Lesson

"Actual" TABS for the problem

Blues riffing in C

E__8______8__ 8___8___8____ 8__8__ 8_8__8--sl dwn--___________
B____11^1____11__11__11-10_10_10__9_9__8--sl dwn--___________
G_______________________________________________________
D_______________________________________________________
A_______________________________________________________
E_______________________________________________________

E__________________________________________________
B_____________ 8^1/2~___________ 10^1/2~~~_____________
G_____________8^1/2~___10-8_____10^1/2~~~_____________
D________8_10_____________10_______________________
A_3-----10___________________________________________
E__________________________________________________

Main riffing

The low muted sound of the double stops should have alerted you that these were on fatter strings. This riffing could have been done on the 4th and 3rd strings if I wanted to but that wasn't the fat tone I was going for.

E_______________________________________________________________________
B_______________________________________________________________________
G_______________________8^1/4~___________________________________________
D__8_9-8__10_10__10-8____8^1/4~___10_8____8~__10_10_10--sl dwn--__8_8_8-9______
A__8_9-8__10_10__10-8___________ 10_8____8~__ 8__8__8--sl dwn--__ 8_8_8-9______
E____________________10______________10_________________________________

E__________________________________________________________________
B__________________________________________________________________
G___________________8^1/4~___________________________________________
D____10_10__10-8____ 8^1/4~__ 10_8____8~__10_10_10--sl dwn--__8_8_9_9_____
A____10_10__10-8___________ 10_8____8~__ 8__8__8--sl dwn--__ 8_8_9_9_____
E_______________10______________10_________________________________

E___________________________________________________________________
B___________________________________________________________________
G___________________8^1/4~____________________________________________
D____10_10__10-8____ 8^1/4~__ 10_8____8~__10_10_10--sl dwn--__8_8_8-9______
A____10_10__10-8___________ 10_8____8~__ 8__8__8--sl dwn--__ 8_8_8-9______
E_______________10______________10__________________________________

E___________________________________________
B___________________________________________
G___________________8^1/4~____________________
D____10_10__10-8____ 8^1/4~__ 10_8____8~_______
A____10_10__10-8___________ 10_8____8~_______
E_______________10______________10__________

Ending

This was a tricky part because it started high and ended down low and I actually changed position quite a bit doing it. Surprisingly though a lot of people nailed this, but most did not. However, the pitches were correct on most of the tab submissions and that's fine. Position is subjective anyway as far as I'm concerned. But if you did miss the positioning to try it my way below and see if you can hear the difference.

E_8_________________________________________
B_8__11_10__8_______________________________
G____11_10__8_10__8-----1----5_3________________
D_____________10__8-----1----5_3__5-4__5________
A_____________________________5-4__3________
E___________________________________________