Shane, as usual, great advice! I’ve been doing finger exercises as part of my morning ritual since January but not with the hammer on. Went back and watched Justin’s module, it’s excellent! Thanks, will incorporate this into my routine.
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When I first started playing guitar, using the hammer on was the way I learned.
Thought I’d have a play with this for a while, great fun! Helps to remember your EMin Pentatonic Scale…
Only odd thing I noticed was I put my headphones on to listen to the original for tempo and compilation and seemed to have lost about an hour of my day…
You don’t listen to Pink Floyd, you Experience it…
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Mind blown! That’s so great to know, thanks for pointing it out
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so, I’m just starting with good old Wish you were here. Perhaps I have a memory like a goldfish, so I kept replaying that first little riff and 1st Em strumming. This may be cheating, but I’m not proud.
That link above will will just loop through the lesson on the first riff/strum combo until you are sick of hearing it. Looper itself is just an online tool, so you can move the little sliders at the bottom to whatever you want to loop and there’s a slider to change the playback speed.
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Oh, now that’s a cool little tool. Easier than firing up Garage band (where I need to own the music)
Great interface design too (I’m not a metal head, so the demo song was tough for me 
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Copied to my “Guitar Tools” URL bookmarks!
Thank you for posting.
Looking for some help that sort of but doesnt get clarified in this thread and its about tab vs name of notes and it doesnt just apply to this song and its giving me confusion.
In the stuck chords lessons Justin says Em7 is 022033 and that A7sus4 is either x02233 or x02033 what confuses me is that in the tab Em7 is -x2033 why is that Em7 and not A7sus4 and should it be played as the tab diagram or the chord named in the same music? I’ve seen similar in other tabs where the named chord is not the same as the tab notation.
I just want to know which is correct so I can “learn” the song correctly, and what makes the chord name the name it is if its not playing the full chord (but is closer to another chord, as described)
Welcome to the forum Nick
Chords names can get really complicated but follow basic rulls.
The Em7 chord needs a E as its root a b3 to make it minor and a b7 to make it a dominant 7 chord. In both examples 022033 and -x2033 both chords have an E as their lowest note first example is the E string the second is the second note on the D string. The b3 in the both example is the note G open G string and the b7 is the note 3rd note on the B string. The note G on the e string is an extra G or b3.
As for the A7sus4 x02233 it doesn’t have a b3. It is substituted with the 4th note of A major scale so it contains a Root note the open A string and the second note on the G string a 4th the note D on 5he B string and a b7 the G on the e string.
x02033 has a extra b7 on the open G string.
The differance between the -x2033 and x02033 is the root note 5he lowest note in the chord. The first chord has and E and the second has an A
So all these chords are full chords because they contain all the notes need to be a chord some just have more than one of some notes.
Hope this wasn’t to confusingr
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Yes in did
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Definitely found this one difficult. Took me a while to transcribe in a way that makes sense to me but I’m glad I did. Feels like that should make riff practice easier for me (I hope).
Wow glad I’m not the only one struggling with this one a little. I’ve got the iconic opening couples bars down through the first set of strums (D + U U D will be seared in my brain lol), but like others on here wish there was a little more of that explicit break down on the next set of individually picked strings bc I can’t quite seem to figure it out, and pretty sure the 3rd part is even less clear. Looked at the tab but I swear it doesn’t match the video but I’m also not very good at reading and playing off tabs so maybe this is my prompt to work on it!
But don’t want to sound critical, this is an absolutely incredible resource even at the free level and I wish I’d found it sooner, Justin has the best youtube lessons I’ve found yet. I was plateaued for years as an advanced beginner and can already see my playing improving after working through this chapter.
I know I’m replying to an old post, but just in case it helps anyone…
I’ve been playing many years and my fingers still go down one at a time on many chords, including the C chord. I think my strumming and general timing has adjusted itself to this. The D, E, Am…fingers all go down together. But the C, G…one finger at a time, just pretty fast.
This is probably just me sucking at reading tabs, but isn’t the tab sheet in this lesson incorrect/not matching what is shown in the video? The part titles “Riff part 1” starts with the signature 5 notes and then it shows to do the D D UD strum with an Em7. However, the tabs have it as xx2033 but Justin plays it as 022033? I know the same chord can be played multiple ways but the difference here is confusing me. What do I make of it while playing? Do I just substitute the way Justin does it when trying to memorize the riff? Doing it that way (022033) feels like it flows better with this particular riff, at least for me
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Ok, since this song is actually one of my Grade 1 5 songs, 
I’ve read this entire thread. Phew. Lot’s to it. I downloaded a tab from another site and heavily modified it, cut n paste, copy, scan, and now I have a fairly simple chord sheet with the intro included.
I didn’t have the strumming patterns needed for my level so I came here. After reading the difficulties everyone is having, I decided to modify my tab/chord sheet. For each strumming pattern on my lead sheet/tab/chord sheet, whatever you want to call it, I label them “JG strumming” and “original strumming”. Now I can practice the simpler version and later on, I don’t have to change anything to try to sound like the original.
Life’s too short for complicated lead sheets.
I’m not sure if this site allows for it but if it does, could you please provide the tabs you’ve made? I’m struggling with the ones here a bit as well so perhaps another version could help me make it clearer
Check the very first post of this thread Richard provided tabs in PDF and Guitar Pro.
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The tabs I use are out there on sites like Ultimate Guitar and Songsterr. I download and take a screenshot of them and put them into Paint. Then I move things around, erase stuff, add text. But they are still “their” tabs. Use the ones here or check out those sites for more. Getting subscriptions and maybe purchasing stuff like Guitar Pro is another option. That’s the best way. Then you’ll have tabs that make sense to you. Good luck!
Could have saved all that time. Richard has already posted the tabs for the video lesson in the first post. I think he posted them about 3 years ago and they match the lesson.
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I have that tab. But, I’m doing the whole song, so that’s why I modified some things.
If you’re learning the whole song don’t use the beginner lesson for the opening riff. It’s simplified for beginners and not all there in the lesson. Justin has a 3 part older series of lesson for the proper way to play the intro and the rest of the song.
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