What you’re noticing isn’t too uncommon… the text above the TAB clearly says Beginner. Justin often simplifies some of the fingerings to make it a bit easier on us! Many times, later in the video he mentions that the finger placement is changing in his more advanced version. Or he’ll demonstrate slides, hammer ons or pull offs (Justin calls ‘em flick offs) that aren’t in the TAB, but are in the original song.
My advice is to use your ears & to play what sounds good to you!
Have fun!!!
Not sure what Justin means by an Open A. I could be wrong, but I’m still in Grade 1 and I don’t think this kind of thing has really been explained yet. Can anyone elaborate?
Thank you for the reply. I understand what you’re saying with the 5 string being played “open,” I guess I just don’t understand what this has to do with an “A.”
Same thing to the second part of your response. Why does the 5h string correspond with an “A chord”? The A chord we’re taught has nothing to do with what is called an “open A” here. Am I making sense?
Don’t worry about it, you’re getting confused with some naming conventions which is beyond this lesson. You are correct that the A chord has nothing to do with the open A string in this lesson. The open A string is the note A, that’s why it’s called the A string.
I was going to post how the riff lesson and the 2-min practice video for the riff had a different note being played towards the end, and then I realized it was brought up by someone a couple months ago.
To the responder of that other post, I’d offer that if we’re taught in a riff lesson to play a certain set of notes then the tab within the practice video for the same lesson should match that for consistency. We beginners need that.
For anyone who wants the correct TAB in their practice routine, here what you can do (on the website, that is):
Open the correct TAB for this riff, shown above in this thread, in a separate window and copy the URL.
Go to the Practice routine for this lesson that you saved to your routines in My Practice Assistant (I assume you already went to the last lesson in this module, selected the Practice section and then clicked on “Save this practice routine”).
Go to the Items section and scroll down to the Riff: Come As You Are item.
Click the pencil icon next to it to edit it.
Click the line for Related Link and paste the url you copied, then click on Save.
Scroll back to the top of the page and select the Practice section.
If you made this lesson’s practice routine your active routine, you’ll see “Riff: Come As You Are” as the 7th item in your routine. Click on that item.
In the lower part of that practice item, you’ll see “Related Link.” This is where you put that URL. Click it and you’ll see your correct riff TAB appear in a separate window tab.
Now, when you get to this item in your practicing, you can start the 2-minute clock and go to the window with this TAB to see what you should play.
Hello! Quick question, are we supposed to practice tapping our foot on riff practices? I can listen to the riff and copy its beat pattern without foot taps, but when I try adding in foot taps it gets kinda complicated. Thank you!
It’s not really something you “have” to do if you’re already keeping time well. However, medium term/long term, I think it’s a skill that really benefits your playing. I think of time keeping and rhythm as two separate things. Usually, we get quite good at playing the right rhythms, but often we neglect locking in to the time, grid, pulse. Foot tapping is essentially your perception of time whilst you play something rhythmic. I’d check out Justin’s book on rhythms if you’re keep to improve in this area as it takes you from the start and it focuses on clapping/tapping whist keeping time with the foot, essentially simplifying the learning process
Is this correct? 6th- 0 0 1 2 5th- 0 6th- 2 5th- 0 6th- 2 2 1 0 5th- 2 6th- 0 0 5th- 2 6th- 0 1 2 and then loop? and ofc timing isnt mentioned here but just the tabs and 0 here means open string ofc
I think what you mean is correct, but just to be sure: it’s 6th- 0 0 1 2 5th- 0 6th- 2 5th- 0 6th- 2 2 1 0 5th- 2 6th- 0 0 5th- 2 6th- 0 1, then loop the part in bold.
As for the timing, you can actually read this from the tab. It says at the beginning that it’s in 4:4, so 4 beats per bar. The first three notes are played on the “+ 4 +” of the measure, so starting on the “and” (the upstrum when you would be playing chords) after the 3rd beat. For the next measure, there’s no + after the 1, which means you don’t play on the “and”, which results in the note ringing out longer. In the last measure you have that little bow on the “+ 3”, meaning you only play on the “and” before the 3rd beat and let the note ring out until you play the next note on the “and” after the 3rd beat.
