I was looking forward to my lesson today to see how my new
(to me) electric guitar had faired. I was not disappointed my teacher had made
it look great. The guitar had been cleaned of all the dust and polish up. The
pick-ups had been levelled out and the problem of the fret sticking out too
much had been corrected. With new shiny strings on it I was very impressed with
it. The guitar has a few cosmetic dents in it but for the very low price I paid
for it I am very pleased.
This week as well as practising my songs that I have been
given I had a look at some TAB on an Radiohead song called “No Surprises”.
I
found there was a few TAB versions and it seemed very confusing to me. The TAB
had the guitar place the capo at the
fifteenth fret which did not seem possible and was not on my acoustic guitar.
Once the teacher had a look at the TAB and played a few
times he confirmed that the 15th fret is correct and this was the
lead guitar part. By luck with my electric guitar I could get my capo on the 15th
fret.
Once we had the correct TAB it was now a case of working out
what fingers go where. Looking on some videos on You Tube there were many different ways to do this including one where someone
had bridged some strings which looked very complicated to me. In the end we
decided on this approach.
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| The Circled Numbers are the fingers to use |
This is only the intro but this took a long while for me to
get the hang of and play, but near the end of my lesson it was starting to
sound like the song. Well sort of.
There is another part to the song which is the rhythm that
is played by an acoustic guitar. We started to look at this and how the chords
are. I could see the chords on the sheet but I could see no clue on what the
rhythm is. However my teacher had it bang on within moments. Next week we will
look at that part.
A great lesson and the time went so quick. I am already
looking forward to next week and getting to grips with the rhythm part.
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