![]() ![]() ![]() It still works perfectly that way, so if you're having trouble with thumbing the two low chords, trying barring across with your index, like you'd do for a moveable chord in standard tuning.Īnd then finally, once you've got all of that down, it's time to add the vocals! Which took me another few weeks to get down. But my hands are too small to wrap around and fully stretch so I had to modify by barring across the fretboard for the two lower chords in the riff, and using my thumb on the higher second last chord in the riff. And especially in the intro you need to do some very tricky palm muting+slap+3 finger plucking chordal stuff in triplets that gets a bit hairy.Īlso in the original John Mayer uses his thumb on most of the main riff chords, wrapping his thumb around to do all the bass notes while stretching his fingers like crazy to do the weird chord shapes. It's also tricky to time it right in transitioning from the slap bass part back to the chords.īeyond that, it is also tricky because Mayer uses a bouncy thumb + finger slap/pluck technique for the main riff which is unlike basic fingerpicking patterns I know. ![]() Not only is it in drop C on acoustic, featuring very interesting jazzy chords in the intro and interlude/solo, but there's a really dirty slap bass part in the interlude that takes a lot of work to figure out. This is a particularly tricky version of the song and it took me months to get down. ![]()
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