2020-03-01 Total Guitar

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TOTAL GUITAR MARCH 2020

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WHATYOUWILLLEARN

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Tempo: 119 bpm

Key/scale:E majorscale

Maintechniques:Tapping/ stringmuting

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HOW TO

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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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