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Jam10Jam10 Posts: 654
edited November 2007 in Musicians and Gearheads
Yellow Ledbetter. I am trying to learn how to play Yellow Ledbetter and I am having a tough time. I got the proper tab, but I have only been playing about a year and a half and it seems to be more of an advanced song. In the intro when you go to the B chord, do you use your thumb or index finger?
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  • pjtaperpjtaper Posts: 3,020
    index for me.
  • jeddethjeddeth Posts: 93
    can you post the tab you are using?
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  • Jam10Jam10 Posts: 654
    Check out the Given to wail web site. All their tabs are great.
  • pjtaperpjtaper Posts: 3,020
    you should learn Society.. its so easy... go to youtube and search it, there is a great video of a dude playing it and it's easy to learn from him!
  • keeponrockinkeeponrockin Posts: 7,446
    I use thumb, jimi style!
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  • EddiesGuitarGirlEddiesGuitarGirl Posts: 96
    index. yeah i just learned yellow ledbetter and im now mastering the solo. i think it is a more advanced song. i have the tabs, if you want to try?
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  • scot88scot88 Posts: 217
    the solo is unbelievably easy. i think it might have been the first solo i learned
  • EddiesGuitarGirlEddiesGuitarGirl Posts: 96
    scot88 wrote:
    the solo is unbelievably easy. i think it might have been the first solo i learned
    yeah it is easy!
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  • MLC2006MLC2006 Posts: 861
    you can do it either way, but for the B and A in the intro, I form a Maj 7th barre chord and use my pinky for the little hammer-on part on the high e string and then just slide down from the B to the A.
  • lucylespianlucylespian Posts: 2,403
    MLC2006 wrote:
    you can do it either way, but for the B and A in the intro, I form a Maj 7th barre chord and use my pinky for the little hammer-on part on the high e string and then just slide down from the B to the A.

    This is by far the easiest way to finger this chord. When you finished with the A chord, it leaves you in position to do the little run down just before you hit teh E chord near the nut. I have tried 3 tabs, but ended up using one from a guitar mag. I always found the GTW tab confusing for this song.
    Realising that Mike's parts are mainly "add9" derivations of the basic chord progression of E, B, A, E helps make sense of it all. The key is E major, so the relative minor is C#, and that is where the solo lives, as well as the first phrase in each passage.
    Great thing about guitar, to find the major/relative minor, you just go down the fretboard from your starting position with the standard box pattern instead of up.
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  • Mike_Muse_RageMike_Muse_Rage Posts: 677
    It's all about the thumb on that low B.
  • MichaelMcKevinMichaelMcKevin Posts: 1,161
    I use my index finger. Here's a little vid I made to show you. Hope it helps.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vqkW_4-V5Ps

    NOTE: My playing might not be exactly like the tabs. I throw in a combination of a little live variation with some of my own improv, but it should answer your question to some degree.
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  • Jam10Jam10 Posts: 654
    It's a tough song to play. Would you guys say it's an intermediate song or an advanced song? This one will take a lot of practice to get the feeling and timing down. Yellow Ledbetter in my opinion is all about feeling.
  • lucylespianlucylespian Posts: 2,403
    Jam10 wrote:
    It's a tough song to play. Would you guys say it's an intermediate song or an advanced song? This one will take a lot of practice to get the feeling and timing down. Yellow Ledbetter in my opinion is all about feeling.


    Probably really an intermediate song, but depends on your ambitions, i guess.
    Do you have a tab that shows the note timing ??
    Mine is from a mag, has timing, that helps a lot. So does being taught.
    You are right in that it is about feeling, but that doesn't really tell you how to play it.
    It is worth doing the practice to play songs precisely. You learn how to make your fingers do what you want, and not what they want, also it's the way to get "the tone" that is in the fingers.
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  • MLC2006MLC2006 Posts: 861
    it's most definitely not an 'advanced' song. I'd almost say it's not even an 'intermediate' song, it's pretty easy. for a "grunge" band, it may be intermediate. but when you take into account thrash metal, 80s metal, neo-classical stuff, "Yellow Ledbetter" is pretty elementary. that's a big reason I've slowed down on learning songs from the 90s, because while I love songs from the 90s, I learn almost nothing from them because they're too easy.
  • Pearl Jam and toastPearl Jam and toast Posts: 4,475
    I say thumb. It allows for more a smoother and possibly more complex slide from the B down to the A.
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