Hey guitar players, it just occurred to me that while listening to the song, I think I have been doing the verse part incorrectly ("heat's raiding, track's fading", etc.). I know it's simple, he just hangs on that suspended C chord. I play it in standard as I believe that is how the song was recorded, but what I hear in it is something more like Keith's open G style. Can anybody explain more or less exactly what he is doing there?



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 2010-05-09 05:25 by theimposter.

Nevermind ... I think I got it. Even simpler than I thought.

I thought that you wanted some advice on getting to 2nd base....

He play it live in standard tuning. Studio too.

Just use fewer strings for the suspended chord.

Dandelion, so is he using a full barre chord there on the C/F part - or just 3 or so strings at once?

And schillid, if you have any advice on that subject I will take that as well.

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Dandelion, so is he using a full barre chord there on the C/F part - or just 3 or so strings at once?

And schillid, if you have any advice on that subject I will take that as well.

Both. Depends on where in the song you play. But on the "bitch keep bitching" parts, he uses the open G-approach in standard tuning.

Actually I don't hear a sus. I always played a plain C chord at the 8th fret ("thumb grip") and a F chord (root at the 8th fret, 5th string). More or less the same trick of Beast of Burden's opening riff.

C

Works fine, too, liddas - and Keith very often does that (not with the thumb grip, though - only with D, G, and B-strings/flat ring finger position for the "sus" - like on BOB, Whip It Up etc.). Could be here as well.