Pearl Jam

I was listening to this bit on the radio and it was a song I had heard before. "whoa whoa whoa-oh I'm still alive"

It was just another song until the solo came. From that first bend I knew this solo was going to be a little bit amazing. I raced home and got the song and the tab and it just sounds so good. Its not super flashy and. The solo for the most part stays in the same grouping so its pretty easy to play, but it sounds so good. A lot of good tricks for the bag in this one.

Alive - Pearl Jam
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KCgFYz7VX74

Tab - http://www.ultimate-guitar.com/search.php?bn=&sn=alive&advanced=0&npage=8

Technical Training

Growing up I played violin. It was fun, but the thing I hated most about violin was when I had to do technical excercises. They seemed lifeless and sounded bad. More than that the notes were hard to execute! Recently (maybe 2 weeks ago) I tried a technical exercise that involves sweeping the D-e string and then switching to A-G string and I had extreme difficulty doing that with sixteenth notes even at 60BPM. I can do it now at 80BPM and i'm trying to work up to 90.

Also down strumming powerchords really fast..how the hell do i do that?

Trigun Theme

So a cool little thing i learned today is from the Trigun Theme

on the A string starting with D

7-5-7-5-7-5------
7-5-7-5-7---7--
5-3-5-3-5-----5-

now i'm trying to do this with sweep picking, because sweeping really opens the door up to a lot of cool sounding guitar techniques

A problem I'm having now is that when I strum that last D, its not rewarding, if that makes any sense. The note doesn't sound full

Buddy Holly

OOO WEEE OOOOH


The chord progression is awesome. Lets try to figure out what key its in. The tab asks you to tune down by a half step but its completely playable in standard tuning

Verse:F#m-G#

3-5-6
3-5-6
1-3-4
is how I would normally walk it, but weezer did something cool here

3---6
3-1-6
1-3-4

sounds awesome, must add that to my knowledge of things to do when playing guitar.

Prechorus:
C#-Cm-Fm

chorus:
I-IV-V with G#-C#-D#

this leads me to believe its in the G# major(okay according to wiki its Ab minor, no such thing as a G# major scale, music theorists will laugh at you for this one, maybe) or F minor

the solo is also AWESOME.



H Q E E
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----------------8--10--|
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Q. E E Q E
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--10b------10~--L--8--------|
------------------------11--|
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Q E E H
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--10S----11--6~--L--------|
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E E E E E E E E
--13--13--15--15--16--16S--18--18--|
---x-------x---x---x---x----x---x--|
--13------12--12--13--13S--15--15--|
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E E S S E E S S S S S S
--18--18--x-16-16--L--------------------
---x---x--x--x--x------------13-13------
--15--15--x-13-13--L---------13-13------
----------------------13h-15-------15-13
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Q E E E S S S S S S
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--15b----15--13~--L--------13-13-------|
---------------------13-15-13-13-15-13-|
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E E E E E S S S S S S
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--13b--L--13----------------------------
--------------13~--L---------------13-15
----------------------------13h-15------
----------------------13-15-------------
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Trill
|----3----| |---3---| |---3---|
S S S S S S S S S
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--13h---14p-13h-14p-13h-14p-13h-14p-13h-
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E E E E E E E E
--16------16--18--18br--L--16------|
------17-----------------------17--|
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W
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--16~----------------|
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Guitar Solos With Feeling

One of my favorite guitar solos comes from Wet Sand by RHCP. The solo its self is very simple but the notes contain so much...UMPH...and the entire build up to the solo. Its comes together so flawlessly

Didn't really learn anything new today, although I looked up the tab for Stacy's Mom. Palm mutes with distortion sound really good.

Oh, I did work on pentatonic scales in the key of Em, or G, its all over the fretboard and i'm trying to get it down so i have a safe base to return to. Theres atleast 3 patterns of it

Crash Into Me

So the one song I learned today was Crash Into Me by Dave Matthews Band. As I understand it, the progression is one chord (E) with a changing root note. C#, A, B, E, G# B E. The key i'm guessing is E major

Also girls love this song, and its really hard to sing and strum at the same time

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I'll be cataloging all my adventures that have something to do with guitar/songwriting. I hope I get far.