playing Playing God
- 6 years ago
Old video from mar/07/2011
Some tips to make it easier.
Left guitar:
-The first riff: after pinky finger I only remove it from 9th fret right before picking 8th fret (ring finger). If you remove it when picking 5th string 7th fret, you'll kill the sound (from 3rd string 9th fret) before the correct time.
-Same riff (2nd part): Instead of ring/index/pinky finger I used middle/index/ring. Y? Cuz they are the same fingers from part 1 from this riff. It's much faster to come back (just a slide!)
-Chorus (right hand): these are power chords, but from 6th string power chords I use index/rnig/pinky, while from 5th string I only use index/pinky. Changing power chords down and up is much faster this way. *If you listen to the original you'll see they change power chords almost instantly, as if it was recorded chord-by-chord and put together. That's why this song is so hard.
-Chorus (left hand/struming): if you play constantly down/up 8 times you'll see this struming is actually up/down/up (not down down up like in the video). But playing "wrong" like this makes it sound differently. Guess Paramore recorded this struming starting with Down. If you watch live show you'll see bassist Jeremy Davis strums even stranger (down up down)
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Right guitar:
-On "finger-picking" (without fingers) I change index/ring 1 by 1, not at once (it makes the whole difference for comfortability cuz it's VERY fast). The second finger-picking shud b with index/ring/pinky, right? But with index/middle/ring is much easier to change to second form, even streching your fingers like this.
-On chorus: this song uses a low amount of distortion, and even with compression the sustain sucks after sliding from 7th to 9th fret. So I push fingers towards my body. The strings get more strenght and sounds lowder.
-Still on chorus: if you play constantly down/up 8 times you'll see this struming is actually up/down/up (not down down up like in the video). But playing "wrong" like this makes it sound differently. Guess Paramore recorded this struming starting with Down. If you watch live show you'll see bassist Jeremy Davis strums even stranger (down up down)
*On solo part there are 3 guitars. Check tabs.
Ah. And don't forget to muffle strings with right hand, cuz with left hand is not enough to kill distortion remains. ^^
Some tips to make it easier.
Left guitar:
-The first riff: after pinky finger I only remove it from 9th fret right before picking 8th fret (ring finger). If you remove it when picking 5th string 7th fret, you'll kill the sound (from 3rd string 9th fret) before the correct time.
-Same riff (2nd part): Instead of ring/index/pinky finger I used middle/index/ring. Y? Cuz they are the same fingers from part 1 from this riff. It's much faster to come back (just a slide!)
-Chorus (right hand): these are power chords, but from 6th string power chords I use index/rnig/pinky, while from 5th string I only use index/pinky. Changing power chords down and up is much faster this way. *If you listen to the original you'll see they change power chords almost instantly, as if it was recorded chord-by-chord and put together. That's why this song is so hard.
-Chorus (left hand/struming): if you play constantly down/up 8 times you'll see this struming is actually up/down/up (not down down up like in the video). But playing "wrong" like this makes it sound differently. Guess Paramore recorded this struming starting with Down. If you watch live show you'll see bassist Jeremy Davis strums even stranger (down up down)
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Right guitar:
-On "finger-picking" (without fingers) I change index/ring 1 by 1, not at once (it makes the whole difference for comfortability cuz it's VERY fast). The second finger-picking shud b with index/ring/pinky, right? But with index/middle/ring is much easier to change to second form, even streching your fingers like this.
-On chorus: this song uses a low amount of distortion, and even with compression the sustain sucks after sliding from 7th to 9th fret. So I push fingers towards my body. The strings get more strenght and sounds lowder.
-Still on chorus: if you play constantly down/up 8 times you'll see this struming is actually up/down/up (not down down up like in the video). But playing "wrong" like this makes it sound differently. Guess Paramore recorded this struming starting with Down. If you watch live show you'll see bassist Jeremy Davis strums even stranger (down up down)
*On solo part there are 3 guitars. Check tabs.
Ah. And don't forget to muffle strings with right hand, cuz with left hand is not enough to kill distortion remains. ^^