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TOTAL GUITAR MARCH 2020
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WHATYOUWILLLEARN
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CHEATSHEET...
Appearsat:0:00-0:
Tempo: 119 bpm
Key/scale:E majorscale
Maintechniques:Tapping/ stringmuting
WEEZER
TheEndOfTheGame
HOW TO
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Getthetone
Rivershasbeenspiedplayingthis
trackona GibsonSGanda Flying V
- bothhumbucker-equipped
guitars.Thesedayshe’sa Kemper
user,havingprofiledhisDiezel VH
amp.Aimfora creamy,mid-rich
distortiontone.A delayset to
repeatin timewiththefirst note
ofeachtripletwillhelpfillout the
sound.Thoserepeatscanhelp you
stayin time,too.Dialin a 252 ms
delaytoplayatthesong’s119 bpm
tempo.Ourvideolessonwas
playedat 30 bpm,sowetimed
thedelayat 1000 ms.
CHANNEL DISTORTION
GAIN BASS MID TREBLE REVERB
VIDEOON YOUR CD
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These are the notes you’ll
be playing in the riff. The open
string and 5th fret E are
a hammer-on, then all the other
notes are tapped. The riff is
a run that goes ‘tap, open
string, 5th fret’ – simply
repeat the pattern and
change the tapped notes.
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Bridge humbucker
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